中国书法是一门古老的汉字的书写艺术，从甲骨文、石鼓文、金文（钟鼎文）演变而为大篆、小篆、隶书，至定型于东汉、魏、晋的草书、楷书、行书等，书法一直散发着艺术的魅力。中国书法是一种很独特的视觉艺术，汉字是中国书法中的重要因素，因为中国书法是在中国文化里产生、发展起来的，而汉字是中国文化的基本要素之一。以汉字为依托，是中国书法区别于其他种类书法的主要标志。

　　Chinese calligraphy is an ancient art of writing Chinese characters, from the oracle bone inions, inions on drumshaped stone blocks, jinwen (inions on ancient bronze objects) evolution for minor, seal , official , to finalize the monastery, wei, jin, cursive , regular , running , etc., have been sending out the charm of art of calligraphy. Chinese calligraphy is a unique visual arts, Chinese character is an important factor in Chinese calligraphy, because the Chinese calligraphy is produced and developed in Chinese culture, and Chinese characters is one of the basic elements of Chinese culture. Based on Chinese characters, it is the main sign that Chinese calligraphy is different from other kinds of calligraphy.

　　中国文字文化博大精深，除了中国书法还有一种奇特的文字表现形式-女书。女书，严格讲应称为“女字”，即妇女文字，是一套奇特的汉字。它不仅符号形体奇特，记录的语言奇特，标记语言和手段奇特，流行的地区、社会功能和传承历史也很奇特。女书脱胎于方块汉字，是方块汉字的变异。女书字的外观形体呈长菱形的“多”字式体势，右上高左下低。斜体修长，秀丽清癯。乍看上去似甲骨文，又有许多眼熟的汉字痕迹。

　　Chinese character culture is extensive and profound. Besides Chinese calligraphy, there is also a unique form of expression of Chinese characters - women's book. The women's book, strictly speaking, should be called "women's character", that is, women's character, is a set of strange characters. It is not only unique in its symbolic form, recorded language, marked language and means, but also unique in popular areas, social functions and historical heritage. Women's book was born out of the square Chinese characters, is a variation of the square Chinese characters. The appearance of the female book character is in the shape of a long diamond "multiple" character, high on the right and low on the left. Lean body slender, beautiful lean. At first glance, it looks like oracle bones, and there are many familiar Chinese characters.

　　女书的使用者主要是汉族妇女，也有当地一些放弃瑶语只用汉语的平地瑶妇女使用。女书靠母亲传给女儿，老人传给少年的自然方式，一代代传下来。“女书”是人类历史上一个独特而神奇的文化现象，也是中国语言生活中的一个奇特现象。

　　The users of women's books are mainly han Chinese women, and there are also some local pingping women who give up the use of Chinese only. Women's books are handed down from mother to daughter, and the natural way of the old to the young is passed down from generation to generation. "Women's book" is a unique and magical cultural phenomenon in human history, and it is also a strange phenomenon in Chinese language life.

　　女书是一种独特的汉语书写系统。女书作品书写在精制布面手写本（婚嫁礼物）、扇面、布帕、纸片上，分别叫做“三朝书”、“歌扇”、“帕书”、“纸文”。有的绣在帕子上，叫“绣字”。这里妇女有唱歌堂的习惯，常常聚在一起，一边做女红，一边唱读、传授女书。妇女们唱习女书的活动被称作“读纸”“读扇”“读帕”，形成一种别具特色的女书文化。

　　Women's book is a unique Chinese writing system. The works of women's books are written on hand-written books (wedding gifts), fans, papas and slips of paper, respectively called "three dynasties books", "song fan", "papshu" and "paper text". Some are embroidered on the veil, called "embroidery characters." Here women have the habit of singing in the singing hall. They often get together and read and teach the books of women while doing the red ones. The activity of women singing and learning women's books is called "reading paper", "reading fan" and "reading pa", forming a unique culture of women's books.

　　“女书”又叫做“女字”，当地人称其为“长脚蚊(长脚文)”，是世界上唯一的女性专用文字，是汉语方言的音节文字。它起源和主要流行的地域是中国南部的湖南省永州市江永县上江圩镇，所以又叫做“江永女书”。以前还通过女性婚嫁外地，扩展到附近的道县、江华瑶族自治县的大瑶山和广西部分地区的妇女中。

　　"Women's book", also known as "women's character", is known locally as "mosquito with long feet" and is the only written language for women in the world. It is the syllables of Chinese dialects. Its origin and main popular area is shangjiang wei town, jiangyong county, yongzhou city, hunan province, south China. In the past, it was extended to women in nearby dao county, da yao mountain in jianghua yao autonomous county and parts of guangxi through women's marriage in other places.

　　卞向和在研究人类学对认识中国江永女书提出：江永女书是目前世界上唯一一种特为女人存在的文字，它诞生在汉朝，确在影响着汉字的结构，它同时又是汉字的另一种表达形式，对中国文化的了解和认识，将又多了一个新的窗口。

　　"Bian to and in the research of anthropology to the Chinese books put forward: book is currently the only one for women in the world of words, it was born in the han dynasty, it influence the structure of Chinese characters, it is the another kind of expression form of Chinese characters at the same time, recognition and understanding of Chinese culture, will have one more new window.

　　目前就有这样一幅“女书”展现在国内知名艺术网站上—虎拍艺术网。这幅“女书”保存完整，字迹书写洒脱自如。女书表征的笔画由点，垂直线和弧组成。像传统的中国文本一样，女书通常是从上到下写的，列从右到左排列大部分的汉字都是语音，而另一半是汉字。

　　At present, there is such a "women's book" on the domestic famous art website - tiger photography art net. This "women's book" is well preserved and well written. The strokes represented by nvshu consist of points, vertical lines and arcs. Like traditional Chinese texts, women's books are usually written from top to bottom, with columns arranged from right to left. Most characters are phonetic, while the other half are Chinese characters.