Asian Folk Religions

In Yunnan, Nakhi Dongba priests preserved ritual writings and performed ceremonies for gods and spirits of the natural world. Nakhi temples brought Dongba imagery together with Buddhist influences, while people at Baidi honoured the Shu nature spirits.

On Taiwan, Dutch rule from 1624 to 1662 brought a different encounter: missionaries taught Christianity and devised Romanized scripts for Indigenous languages. Among the Siraya, the resulting Sinkang script was still used in land contracts in the eighteenth century.