“刻道”对文字产生的认识意义

The Significance of Kedao for Understanding the Meaning of Words

苗族"刻道",汉译开亲歌,上面刻有27个符号。按照组合情况,分为独体与合体;按符号与实物的关系,又可分为指事与象形。它们对认识文字符号有重要意义:刻符是文字的源头之一,指事与象形两种造字法都是产生较早的造字法,文字与生活有密切的关系,指事符号最早应该指具体的事物。

Kedao of Miao ethnic group, translated as ancient marriage song in Chinese, has twenty- seven engraved symbols which can be divided into the sole characters and the compound characters according to their combination, and into self-explanatory characters and pictographic characters according to the relationship between symbols and objects. They are important for understanding the written symbols which are one of the sources of writing words. Both self-explanatory and pictographic formations of the characters are the ancient ways to coin words which are closely related with life. The self-explanatory symbols were used to refer to specific things in ancient times.