贵州省大方县东关乡彝族农民罗国义一家,被当地人誉为彝文翻译世家。从他父亲开始,已有三代人从事彝文翻译工作。罗国义的父亲叫罗文笔,原是当地的汉文先生,1916年他与人合作,将耶稣教的“赞美诗”译成彝文,并在彝族教徒中传唱。1929年,北平地质研究所的丁文 Luo Guoyi, a farmer from Dong Guan Township, Dafang County, Guizhou Province, was hailed by the locals as a family of Yi translators. From his father, three generations have been engaged in Yi translation work. Luo’s father, Luo Wenbai, was originally a native Chinese, and in 1916 he worked with others to translate the “hymn” of Jesus’ teaching into Yi and to sing among Yi people. In 1929, Ding Wen of the Peiping Institute of Geology