Ddip vi Details |
Kepu Jjylur Shyate Details |
Nuosu books are writtten in a script that was traditionally written on the paper from right to left and up and down with a handmade bamboo pen dipped in the rosin ink and bound into a scroll.
The bamboo pen is made from a thin bamboo stick attached to a small bundle of goat wool at one end. Sometimes a sharpened bamboo stick was used directly.
The paper, purchased from the Han Chinese, is made of a
kind of green bamboo and is quite durable for folding. The paper is
usually cut into a rectangular shape and folded into a book. A bamboo
stick was cut into halves and sewn to one side of the book. The first
and last few pages of the book are left blank for the front and back
cover.
After the priest finished writing, the paper is rolled up
from the bamboo rollers and wrapped with a hand-woven cloth of hemp or
cotton. The scroll is tied up with a linen string attached at the end
of the cloth. At last, the name of the scripture is written on the
wrapping.
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