Explanation And Research On "Change Longevity For Decedent" From Naxi Dongba Scripture

As a useful ancient writing regarded by academe, Dongba character is used by minority in southwest China, also it can be counted as living fossil in the history of character. As a result of Dongba character is in the process of changing, research on it is useful to the establishment of Dongba character's subject, also it's useful to the further research of general character's subject, comparative character's subject, history of character and other national character.This article chooses "hecatomb wind ? change longevity for decedent" from No.87 tome of "corpora of Naxi Dongba ancient books", use general character's theory as guidance and conducts the whole research to it. It makes the explanation to each character, traces its source, indicates its using condition, then in this foundation it carries out the special study, aims at phenomenon of language and culture.This article is divided into two major parts, the first part focuses on explanation, that is to say, it makes the explanation to each character. The concrete method is: Finds out each character character's pronunciation, significance, and explanation by the existing dictionary, then illuminate its using complexion, for example: local accent, ancient and modern tone, whether borrows and so on. In this foundation, the second part of this article focuses on investigation, it studies those phenomena of letter, language and culture which reflected in the first part.this part includes three chapters.The first chapter is accent, the key point is the situation that the classics sound differentt with the dictionary sound; The second chapter writing, to classify all characters which appears in the article from the makes angle and explains its characteristic, the reflection question and so on.Mainly is research on the pictophonetic character and the borrowing character; The third chapter is gramma,includes the research on the function words and the folds sound words. The research on function words emphasis on the research of the adverb, the auxiliary and so on. mainly makes a comparison of the seven words which appears in the article from the aspect that makes the component parts of a sentence, whether used borrowed,the meaning of the words.