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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  • @vixis
    @vixis Жыл бұрын

    I love this. Sad but they made the best of their lives and were not broken.

  • @cat_pb
    @cat_pb Жыл бұрын

    💕beautiful message~ Women supporting women!

  • @Talimxo

    @Talimxo

    9 ай бұрын

    YESS 🩷🩷🩷

  • @leonjacobs3426
    @leonjacobs3426 Жыл бұрын

    Keep it alive. Your obviously not completely free from oppression

  • @mrgenetics4063

    @mrgenetics4063

    3 ай бұрын

    How can you bring back a language from the dead if nobody speaks it?

  • @dfjulesful
    @dfjulesful Жыл бұрын

    Lisa See has a fictional book about this called Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

  • @christianfrommuslim
    @christianfrommuslim Жыл бұрын

    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

    @aumelb

    9 ай бұрын

    Afaik ir is syllabaric.

  • @DipakGotam76239
    @DipakGotam76239 Жыл бұрын

    Tapaskar🙏🇮🇳. Have a nice day. I learned something new.

  • @lilwater3279
    @lilwater32795 ай бұрын

    I hope they keep it secret and alive.

  • @Fei_jisoo1407
    @Fei_jisoo140710 ай бұрын

    아름다운 글 💖💖💖 우리, 여자들만큼 예쁘고 세련된 🌸🙋🏻 섬세한 깃털처럼 보이는 저 글씨에 내 이름을 문신하고 싶어 ✨✨✨

  • @huas5350
    @huas5350 Жыл бұрын

    At the same time, on several other continents of the planet, some people are genocide the natives of some continents. History is too cruel.

  • @mabumarnauen7318
    @mabumarnauen731829 күн бұрын

    The linguistic inaccuracy of this title is astonishing

  • @pongop
    @pongop Жыл бұрын

    Amazing! Womxn and femmes unite!

  • @autentico3284
    @autentico3284 Жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @beautifulempatheticliberal5204
    @beautifulempatheticliberal5204 Жыл бұрын

    We have our own secret way of driving too.

  • @5-es4mn

    @5-es4mn

    5 ай бұрын

    You are A psyc_-_-__-hopa-__-th man who enjoy crimes and harm.

  • @5-es4mn

    @5-es4mn

    5 ай бұрын

    Also we are not liberals. We are conservatives matriarchs.

  • @DM-tc3ek
    @DM-tc3ek Жыл бұрын

    not so secret now huh

  • @dadgbe4834

    @dadgbe4834

    Жыл бұрын

    try reading it then smart ass

  • @guff9567
    @guff9567 Жыл бұрын

    Not a secret any more. Is it?

  • @boeingpameesha9550
    @boeingpameesha9550 Жыл бұрын

    Boeing Chinese!

  • @ArgueMe
    @ArgueMe Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @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

    @jemfalor

    Жыл бұрын

    it's Qing dynasty

  • @nejdalej

    @nejdalej

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ArgueMe source?

  • @ArgueMe

    @ArgueMe

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nejdalej or you can just goole it.

  • @jeffw.6821
    @jeffw.6821 Жыл бұрын

    Sad.

  • @Carlos-wn7fr
    @Carlos-wn7fr Жыл бұрын

    😘 "promosm"!!

  • @ibnewton8951
    @ibnewton8951 Жыл бұрын

    Most annoying sound ever: Chinese opera.

  • @nekon.03

    @nekon.03

    Жыл бұрын

    Or how about... Ur voice

  • @JoxDrewpcokzz-wm1pv

    @JoxDrewpcokzz-wm1pv

    4 ай бұрын

    just because you dont like doesnt mean its annoying

  • @brianellison3525
    @brianellison3525 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @pongop

    Жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on being just another typical, boring, shitty dude

  • @pongop

    @pongop

    Жыл бұрын

    Western male privilege

  • @pongop

    @pongop

    Жыл бұрын

    lol you're not very bright, are you?

  • @aumelb

    @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

    @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.

  • @salami2
    @salami2 Жыл бұрын

    lol