China's secret language that only women speak - BBC REEL
400 years ago, women in China's Hunan province had their feet bound and were confined to their chamber rooms. To find a way to cope, they invented Nushu, a secret language men could not understand.
We speak with director Violet du Feng about Nushu, which is the subject of her new documentary Hidden Letters, and discover how women today are finding inspiration in the language.
Video by Harriet Constable
Co-produced by Fiona Macdonald
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I love this. Sad but they made the best of their lives and were not broken.
💕beautiful message~ Women supporting women!
@Talimxo
9 ай бұрын
YESS 🩷🩷🩷
Keep it alive. Your obviously not completely free from oppression
@mrgenetics4063
3 ай бұрын
How can you bring back a language from the dead if nobody speaks it?
Lisa See has a fictional book about this called Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Very interesting! I wish they had given more details about how the script relates to traditional script, if it were pictographic or alphabetic and so on.
@aumelb
9 ай бұрын
Afaik ir is syllabaric.
Tapaskar🙏🇮🇳. Have a nice day. I learned something new.
I hope they keep it secret and alive.
아름다운 글 💖💖💖 우리, 여자들만큼 예쁘고 세련된 🌸🙋🏻 섬세한 깃털처럼 보이는 저 글씨에 내 이름을 문신하고 싶어 ✨✨✨
At the same time, on several other continents of the planet, some people are genocide the natives of some continents. History is too cruel.
The linguistic inaccuracy of this title is astonishing
Amazing! Womxn and femmes unite!
lol
We have our own secret way of driving too.
@5-es4mn
5 ай бұрын
You are A psyc_-_-__-hopa-__-th man who enjoy crimes and harm.
@5-es4mn
5 ай бұрын
Also we are not liberals. We are conservatives matriarchs.
not so secret now huh
@dadgbe4834
Жыл бұрын
try reading it then smart ass
Not a secret any more. Is it?
Boeing Chinese!
I am so baffled by the idea that women agreed that men should rule. We are so competent.. as beings... but so eager to comply. Seems to be a design flaw. God???
@nejdalej
Жыл бұрын
Women didn't agree, we were threatened with violence or murder and gaslighted for centuries. Wanting to survive isn't a design flaw. Plus when you're brought up with a lot of indoctrination, it's so hard to see past it. And it's not just women who were indoctrinated, men were too and in so many places in the world its still happening. Violent acts and abuse still happen because of this mindset. You're right in saying it's baffling because it's such a needless waste and we humans should have known better. But it's extremely unfair to say it's a 'design flaw' in women and I sincerely hope that this is not what you meant. :/
@ArgueMe
Жыл бұрын
It is actually a fact that women test higher on agreeableness than men. We are in fact more eager to please! And that is okay because it makes us great family members and friends! The differences between men and women helped humans succeed as a species and we have no proof that we would have been better off otherwise.
@jemfalor
Жыл бұрын
it's Qing dynasty
@nejdalej
Жыл бұрын
@@ArgueMe source?
@ArgueMe
Жыл бұрын
@@nejdalej or you can just goole it.
Sad.
😘 "promosm"!!
Most annoying sound ever: Chinese opera.
@nekon.03
Жыл бұрын
Or how about... Ur voice
@JoxDrewpcokzz-wm1pv
4 ай бұрын
just because you dont like doesnt mean its annoying
Slow news day eh? I'm just assuming that most of the free world couldn't give a damn about this. I sure as hell don't.
@pongop
Жыл бұрын
Congratulations on being just another typical, boring, shitty dude
@pongop
Жыл бұрын
Western male privilege
@pongop
Жыл бұрын
lol you're not very bright, are you?
@aumelb
9 ай бұрын
Nobody forced you to watch this video, let alone leave your useless comment. I am sure that as someone living in a "free world" (whatever that means), you are free enough to ignore content you are not interested in.
@question5011
4 ай бұрын
Even the so-called "free world" isn't so free. Women has always been silenced even in the so-called "free world" in history. Many women in western society used to write works under male pseudonyms. If this was a video on female writers' struggles in westerners' history would you have made the same comment? Are you trying to also silence women as they try to share their history. This is something many females can relate to and it's not just because the women in this video are from China.
lol