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我的床頭新書﹕“一冊女書筆記﹕探尋中國湖南省江永縣上江墟鄉女書”

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慧琛

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Date Posted: 17:00:41 09/28/03 Sun

這是筆者最近在二樓書店買來的新書﹐如獲珍寶﹐令我無心睡眠。

以下是書中部份內容﹕

“有這麼一個傳說﹕很久很久以前在中國湖南省江永縣上江墟鄉﹐一個生下來的女嬰﹐重九斤﹐因以命名。長大後﹐這位九斤姑娘﹐聰明能幹﹐紡紗織布績麻繡花﹐樣樣出色……以前女子不識字﹐鄉村路遙﹐她們互為通訊﹐往往要托人轉帶﹐這麼一來﹐要交托的消息﹐就很容易出錯。九斤姑娘便想到創造一種文字﹐書寫或織繡到紙本﹑扇子﹑巾帕﹔經由姊妹帶給遠遠近近的姊妹。姊妹們接到信﹐圍聚一起﹐一邊讀紙讀扇讀帕﹐一邊做女紅。這種文字﹐一代經一代﹐在姊妹間﹐相交傳習。”

“那一九九八年十二月二十一日﹐我看到了那傳說中由女子創造在女子間傳習的女書。女書字呈菱形﹐狹長﹐字體自右上方斜斜的傾向下左方﹐一字一行自上而下﹐由右至左﹐溢於紙上。字句間並無標點符號。那是一種表音文字﹐一個字一個音﹐而同一個音的又有不同的義﹐即為單音節多義字﹐由當地的土話演譯過來。儘管有的研究認為女書溯源自甲骨文﹐或刻劃陶文上千年的一種文字﹐或者是借源自漢字或其它原始文字少數民族文字等幾百年的歷史等等的不同說法﹐我倒願意相信九斤姑娘﹐那荒誕﹐那菱紋斗線﹐一條條幽幽的尾巴﹐背向著方正的框架﹐說上了好多屬於她和她和她和她的故事。”

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我也寧願相信九斤姑娘的故事﹐如初中時代諗過的一課書﹕木蘭辭﹐無人可以證明曾否有那麼一個女子真正存在過﹐但她的故事萬世傳頌﹐人們都大慨相信她曾在歷史的巨輪之中出現。聰慧的九斤創造了那麼獨有的文字﹐讓女女間對彼此的關懷和愛謢﹐可好無保留地流露﹑展現﹐亦只會在姊妹間流傳﹐然後﹐一代接一代的歌頌﹑誦諗下去﹐如流水般永恆不息。

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