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 ...

An example of Dongba script from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Photos: VCG French sinologist Joel Bellassen went back to Anyang, Central China's Henan Province recently as a speaker at the 2025 China ...

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 ...

This week’s guest blog post is by Dr Duncan Poupard, Assistant Professor (Translation) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Naxiologist. He sheds light on some of the most extraordinary, ...

DURING THE “golden week” national holiday that began on October 1st, hundreds of thousands of sightseers flocked to Lijiang, a picturesque historic town in the south-western province of Yunnan. Among ...

TIME is not on the side of He Xuewen. The octogenarian shaman is the only man alive who knows all the rites and secrets of Dongba, a religion almost obliterated a quarter of a century ago by rampaging ...

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 ...