Character Endangerment—Zhushu of Lisu Nationality
Gao Huiyi East China NORMAL University
Lisu’s Zhushu is one of primordial syllabic ethical character created by Wang Renbo in the very beginning of 1920s, who was one of Lisu wizards in Weixi county of Yunnan Province. There are certain unique but cherished cognitive values to the Written Language History, General Written Languages and Written Linguistic Comparison because of Zhushu’s special essence. The spoken culture about the generations is extensive and fairly valuable to the complete recognition on Lisu people. However, there is quite few persons who can recognize Zhushu at present. Zhushu is an endangered character through the analysis on the factors of religion, main culture and so on. The purpose is to appeal to save endangered characters so as to maintain harmonious society and multi-culture co-existence.
