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| "Damazi"—— The Vivid Fossil of "Shuqi", An Original Character |
| 中南民族学院历史文化学院，湖北武汉430074 |
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Abstract Damazi" is also called "Roumazi". In some remote villages of Zhuxi County in the northwest of Hubei province of China, one custom has been passing down. At the end of each year, the local villagers ask the butchers to kill pigs and weigh the meat, and then carve some special marks on the skin of the meat to signify the weight. These marks are carved in different parts of the skin which mainly consist of vertical and horizontal strokes and signify accordingly the units of Chinese weight, "jin" or "liang". And the local people call it "Damazi". This way of marking numeral is similar to "Shuqi" recorded in historical works. After several on the spot surveys,this paper basically discloses that "Damazi" can be called the vivid fossil of original character "Shuqi".
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Received: 25 January 2002
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