Why did the Chinese women of Jiangyong county use a script hidden from men for a long time? Detailed answer

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Why did the Chinese women of Jiangyong county use a script hidden from men for a long time?

Since ancient times, Chinese women living in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, had a special writing system called Nu-shu, carefully hidden from men. Since women were forbidden to study official letters, they invented their own set of characters corresponding to individual syllables, and this knowledge was transmitted to girls only from their mothers or sisters. To prevent men from discovering the cryptography, nu-shu signs were most often woven into the ornament - their very shape was optimal for embroidery on fabric.

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