Language can reveal more things than we might assume. Language is the tool with which living beings communicate with each other. It includes many aspects, grammar, characters, logic, special jargons and many more. Culture, in other words, is the customs, art, achievements, and values of a particular group of people, and cultural aspects usually, if not always, gets imbedded into the language of that culture. With the intertwined relationship between language and culture, we can often identify an individual's cultural backgrounds through to his or her language usage.
             In a way, language is shaped by the culture in which it took shape. Back in the 18th century(late Qing Dynasty), a type of language called nu-shu(meaning female's script, pronounced Nüshu) was popular among women in Southern China. Nüshu took the form of squiggly and twisted versions of ordinary chinese characters, and contains only around 700 or so characters. It is usually written on fans, and then exchanged between female friends, as a way of secret communication. This language is only learnt and known among women, with no male understanding its meaning. Nüshu as a language was originally women's attempt to learn to write, however the culture background then changed its form and turned it into how it was used and how it look like today. Back in the Qing dynasty, women rarely receive any rights, and were considered inferior to men. Women did not have the opportunity to receive formal education, and so they couldn't read or write. All the conditions mentioned fostered Nüshu's form, and we can see the culture behind the women's language. The twisted characters, which are made that way for men to consider them as ordinary decorations, tells us that women were forced to exchange information secretly; The paucity of characters in the language, acknowledges the fact that women were not given proper education and can thus onl...