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I am currently studying an old scroll documenting a marriage proposal between two families. The end of the scroll bears the following text:

峕龍飛中華民國十二年六月弍日

Questions:

  1. I did some research on http://www.chineseetymology.org/, and found that "峕" is an alternate form for 時. Can anyone verify this?
  2. What does 龍飛 mean in this context? I know that it used to be a metaphor for the Emperor ascending the throne. In this case, is it just a way of saying "On this auspicious day..."?
  3. There is a character in the scroll that has the 亻radical + 宇. Does anyone know what the character is?

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2. Perhaps the name of the person who wrote the scroll, and then the date.

Edit - or perhaps 龍飛 is shortened from 龍飛鳳舞 (adj / n. - of swift movement of dancing or calligraphy), meaning "written (in calligraphy) on 2 June 1923".

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skylee wrote:

3. Could it be 佇 instead?

Just to give you the complete sentence, the 4-character phrase reads:

"欣觀雁拜, 佇(?)冀熊占"

Attached is an image of the above phrase from the document.

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