Stefano Zamblera, University of Pisa

My aim is writing a complete system of iconographic and thematic index plates, with the purpose of studying, collecting and classifying the whole Dongba pictographs and Geba significants corpora in a complete Dongba Geba annotated catalogue.

Each plate will be tagged by a letter; and each Geba/pictograph gathered within a plate will be progressively numbered. Thus each entry is identified by a compound label (letter + number), and it will show latinization and transcription (following [IPA] standard), and a list of references and quotations from major Dongba/Geba dictionaries available at present.

Pictograph plates resources conception is derived directly from Egyptian Dictionary structure written by Sir Alan Gardiner in its landmark work “Egyptian Grammar”, where he settled some indexed categories under which he collected Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Iconographic and semantic indexed plates of Gardiner’s Egyptian Dictionary constitute a very useful tool for faster identification of hieroglyphics, and its adoption (once fitted to the Dongba pictographic system) will systematize other researcher’s efforts in documenting the Dongba written language.

It is important to keep apart Gebas characters and pictographs because of the structural differences between these two writing systems, while the last is pictographic the former is syllabographic. Such distinction has also to be preserved in their classification and grouping, because appropriate and efficient solutions in exposition and classification of pictographs could not be as good as for Geba symbols.

Pictographs will be then classified by their own characteristics, of which the most important seem to be: 1. iconography and (for unidentified pictograph) 2. shape. Both will be indexed.

1. Iconographic classification of pictographs should coincide with the identification of the prominent pictographical aspect of the significant operation, in other words what the analysed pictograph is depicting (in ex. The head of a bird, part of human body, a craft, etc…) must be identified
2. By Grouping of unidentified pictograph by shape an operation is meant, founded on a preliminary aesthetic/geometric normalization of dubious and unidentified pictograph to fit them into a geometric standard whole, as round, vertical, orizzontal, crux, elliptic, dots, etc… Such classification should be the most useful and the only efficient for attested but unidentified or uncertain pictographs.

Gebas will be presented by a double plate system too: Gebas should be sorted in a 1. syllabary and by 2. number-of-stroke plates. Both will be indexed.

Each entry in Pictographs and Gebas plates will show, from top to bottom

• Significant representation,
• latinization
• [IPA phonetic standard] transcription
• references and quotations of the main Dongba/Geba dictionaries work:

方国瑜; 和志武 – Fang Guoyu; He Zhiwu, 1995 “纳西象形文字谱 – Naxi xiang xing wen zi pu” 云南人民出版社

Dragan Janekovic, 2005 “Na-si: srpski recnik” – Beograd: Narodna biblioteka Srbije

Joseph Francis Charles Rock, 1963: “A 1Na-2Khi-English encyclopedic dictionary”, Serie Orientale Roma, XXVIII

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Zhong Yaoping, Ph.D. candidate, Southwest University; is a teacher in Chongqing Jiaotong University.

He Shurong. Principal of Yunnan province Diqing city Dongba school

He shukun, Dongba of Yunnan province Diqing city Dongba school

Ruka is a branch of the Naxi nationality in Yunnan, also known as “Ruoke”, “Ruanke”. Ruka Dongba writing which used by Ruka residents are different from with the common Naxi Dongba writing. Mr. Li Lincan, Mr. He Zhiwu and Mr. Wang Yuanlu had do some research about Ruka Dongba writing, but the materials are only from Shangrila county Luoji township. The new Ruka Dongba writing—from Baidi Wushuwan village—are introduced in this paper, there are 93 new words are founded. Through the comparison study with Luoji Ruka Dongba writing , Baidi Ruka Dongba writing have more word-formation forms. This Ruka Dongba writing has had six kind of word-formation forms, and the pictographic character occupied the overwhelming superiority.

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白郎, 成都晚报社

明确“纳系族群” 的概念所指：
历史上以摩挲、磨些（suo）为它称，以“纳”为自称的这一种群就是“纳系族群”， 该种群主要活动在滇川藏交角区域。由于种种原因，“纳系族群”的历史衍变状况非常复杂，现在主要包括纳西人、纳罕人、摩挲人、蒙族人、纳木依人这几支。
对“纳系族群”民间文化有没有可能实施国家级保护
根据《国家十一五时期文化发展规划纲要》，由文化部牵头，国家要建立10个国家级民族民间文化生态保护区，由于目前仍处试验性阶段，因此各保护区暂定为“文化生态保护实验区”，待日后条件成熟时正式命名为“文化生态保护区”。这是以国家的名义和力量来对一个区域实施民族民间生态保护。
在藏彝走廊这一重要的民族文化区域内，纳系族群是很有代表性的一支，具有非常深厚的底蕴和特色，相关的政府机构和学术机构可以认真地来考虑分析，有没有建立“纳系族群文化生态保护区”的可能性？如果能以国家的力量来建立这个保护区，那对纳系族群来说，无疑具有重大的现实意义和非常深远的历史意义，这个课题应该引起地方领导和纳文化学界的高度重视，应该深入地来进行思考和研究。
金沙江流域民间文化的调查研究和抢救工作迫在眉睫。
关于金沙江流域民间文化的调查研究和抢救工作，早在上世纪80年代就有人关注和研究。金沙江流域是藏彝走廊的重要组成部分，生活着纳西、藏、彝、傣等12个民族，成为研究西南历史文化绕不开的一个重要区域。同时，金沙江流域丰富的自然和人文资源开发在即，国家对金沙江流域开发主要表现在建立诸多大型电站，这是经济和社会发展的需要，这是国家发展战略的实施。在开发这些资源的同时，对丰富的民族民间文化、历史文化进行抢救显得格外重要，在这样的关头，站在历史的角度上，我们这代人不得不面对。
对民间文化实施现实保护的商讨
许多民族的文化样态和意识形态体现的是一种“全息文化”——自然、生活和文化被融入到自己的一套独特的宇宙体系观中，这个体系观不仅保护了人还保护了自然环境。所以，纳系族群应致力于实施人与自然的协同保护。
母语保护是民间文化保护的重要内容。就母语保护而言，最重要的是实施政府保护。希望越来越多的纳西族群同胞有自觉的母语意识，认识到这是在保护民族文化的底线。
对各种民间文化门类的传人实施保护。各界精英与政府应该联袂合作，培养非物质文化遗产传承人，扶持民间文化重要门类的传人，鼓励建立固定的传习场所，资助传承人开展传习活动，给予适当的生活补助，并且充分挖掘、开放和利用农村非物质文化遗产，发展农村特色文化产业。

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