As a useful ancient writing regarded by academe,Dongba character is used by minority in southwest China,also it can be counted as living fossil in the history of character.

The Book Naxi Pictograph Character Chart written by Fang Guoyu is an important dictionary of Dongba characters.

There is a large number of borrowing character in Na-xi Dong-ba script.

Dong-ba scriptures originated mainly from Baidi,Baoshan,Lijiang and Ludian in Yunnan province.

The Dongba characters is famous for its primitive characteristics,but it has some leading developmental phenomena,such as the method of the associative compound formation,the developing stage of phonogram characters,looking from the Chinese characters.

The Dongba characters of Naxi nationality is the only one still in use today s world of the ancient writing, known as "the living fossil hieroglyphs".

Dongba characters used in the Naxi ethic are a primal character,which are mainly used by Dongba who is a necromancer of Naxi ethic.

In Dongba language of Naxi nationality,there is a kind of guises that a character is replaced by another language but has ever existed in its native language.

Naxi people s Dongba language consists of characters from the ancient times, some of which, however, are quite abstract.

The variants of Dongba language facilitates the study on its simplification which is mainly based on omission,symbolization and transformation and helps reveal the language development.

A brief discussion on protection and exploitation Dongba culture;

Value of Dongba culture from the view of humanity;

The influence of Dongba culture on the sustainable development of tourism industry in Lijiang;

In this article, I will begin from an analyzation on the principle of the characters of Dongba\' word-formation and their graphic features then search a joined point between them and modern graphic design.