The Lost Qidan Characters

China recorded the Khitan language with Chinese characters in Liao Dynasty. There are two kinds of personalities: big and small. According to legend, the big characters were created by Lu Ye Bao Ji, the emperor of Liao Dynasty, in the fifth year of Shenshu (920) under the sponsorship of Tu Guhun, Lu Bugu and others, while the small characters were created by Lu Ye Diela, the emperor's younger brother, and the time of word creation was slightly later than the big characters. After the Jin Dynasty destroyed Liao Dynasty, the Khitan script continued to be used, which played a great role in the process of Jurchen writing. In the second year of Jin Zhangzong Ming Chang (1 19 1), the Khitan script was "imperial edict", but it was gradually lost. All the books in the Khitan language were annihilated, except for a few Khitan characters included in the Record of Yanbei and the Book History Society. Judging from the funeral books and inscriptions unearthed in Qidan, Chinese characters are ideographic square characters, mixed with some forms of directly borrowing Chinese characters. Small characters are a kind of pinyin characters. More than 300 original characters are created by strokes of Chinese characters, and then they are combined to form words. The original characters are divided into block letters, cursive scripts, seal scripts and other fonts. The spelling of seal script characters is different from block letters and cursive scripts, which are filed rather than folded. The style of writing is vertical from top to bottom, with line breaks from right to left, and words are raised or blank. The original word has a written form, which represents several pronunciations or the situation that a pronunciation adopts several written forms. Therefore, the same word or morpheme can have different spelling forms in words.