A one-hour language class on the Dongba script, one of the pictographic writing systems still in use today, was held online on Tuesday as part of a series of events to mark the United Nations' annual ...

A month-long exhibition to display the Dongba culture of Yunnan province takes place in Jiading, Shanghai, throughout July. [Photo/chinanew.com] A total of 24 Dongba cultural items including Dongba ...

He Zhiben, 83, is the only Dongba who hosts religious rituals in Baidi village, Shangri-La county, in Yunnan province. Liu Sheng / for China Daily Dongba scriptures are written in pictographs, the ...

SOME 8500 years ago, people in what is now China started using written symbols to communicate and store knowledge. At first they used pictures to represent words and ideas – a characteristic shared by ...

Zhang Xu, a Naxiologist and the head of the Beijing Association of Dongba Culture and Arts (ADCA), a non-governmental organization working to protect, research, and revive Dongba culture, introduces ...