A brief introduction to the history of Zhuang Culture "Square Wenzhuang" of Zhuang Nationality

Zhuang is one of the major languages ??in China, with a population of more than 20 million. The Zhuang language belongs to the Chia-Dai language family, the Taiwan branch of the Dongtai language family in Taiwan Province, and is closely related to Thai, Lao, Dai, and Shan languages. Some foreign scholars call Zhuang language "Northern Taiwan". The northern dialects of Zhuang and Buyi belong to the northern language family of the Taiwanese language family, while the Zhuang language of Vietnamese and the southern dialect of Dai belong to the central language family of the Taiwanese language family. In addition, Thai, Lao, Dai and Shan languages ??constitute the Southwest language group in Taiwan Province.

Zhuang language is still widely used in rural areas and some towns where the Zhuang people live together. However, due to various reasons, Zhuang language has not become popular yet. At present, the Zhuang people scattered in some counties and cities use Chinese as their daily language. However, the urban Zhuang population accounts for a small proportion of the total Zhuang population, and the Zhuang population whose mother tongue is Zhuang still accounts for more than 90% of the Zhuang population. At the same time, more and more young Zhuang people have learned to speak Chinese fluently, becoming a strong bilingual group. Wenzhuang's bank name and denomination are printed on the RMB.

Fangzhuang characters

More than 1,000 years ago, the Zhuang people created "vulgar characters" by using the radicals, pronunciation and semantics of Chinese characters. There are about 4,800 local common words used by people, such as "Gu Zhuangzi Dictionary". ). Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty wrote in "Guihai Yuzhiheng": "It is a distant custom and specializes in writing about the customs of Guilin."

However, due to the different character shapes in different places, there is no unified standard, too many strokes, difficulty in writing, inconvenience in use, and inconvenience. Used in administrative documents and formal education. Zhuang Square is still very popular in Zhuang areas.

Folk artists use it to record, edit, and organize stories, legends, folk songs, and operas, such as Bu Bo, Liu Jie's Bird's Eye View, intellectual stories, etc., leaving us with precious historical materials and cultural wealth. In 1993, the Science and Technology Commission of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region organized experts to complete the software design of the ancient Zhuang script processing system, which was used to organize various ancient Zhuang scripts. He has successively published Zhuang ancient books such as "Translation and Commentary of the Buluotuo Sutra", "A Collection of Ancient Zhuang Folk Songs", "Lang Ge", and "Huan'an", which demonstrate the ancient and rich traditional Zhuang culture.