耳耳语语 Posted January 31, 2014 at 12:02 PM Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 at 12:02 PM My family has two chinese panels since several generations. Apparently they are hard to read even for chinese people. One chinese teacher told me it was the story of the moon divinity 嫦娥, but i'm not sure about that, i only cay say that 夕 and 月 appear a few times. Have you any idea of what it may be ? Any help is appreciated ! Here are the full pictures : http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/894749panneau1DSC03600.jpg http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/855761panneau2DSC03602.jpg The beginning looks to me like " 风翻夕,风翻日". So maybe it means something like "The wind transformed the moon, The wind transformed the sun". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottt Posted February 4, 2014 at 03:24 PM Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 at 03:24 PM (1) To split the long text into short sentences: The two scrolls were matching each other. Both are 100 characters. They can be read 5 characters each sentence. But they cannot read 7 characters each sentence. Otherwise, each sentence may have different characters just as the format in 詞 or 曲. Based on the first text you cut, 5 characters each sentence is doubtful. The meaning is incomplete.(2) Wrong characters Your translation 风翻夕,风翻日 is not correct They are Traditional Chinese characters. 風嫋又風嫋嫋 (in Simplified Chinese 风袅又风袅袅) Where 風 = Wind 嫋 = curling upwards; wavering gently The whole sentence = the wind wavering gently again and again The 3rd one is 又 (again), not 夕 The last one (two strokes) is the symbol of repeating the previous character. And it seldom being used as the 1st character in the sentence.(3) Matching character Since these two scroll are matching each other, so does the first sentence. On the 2nd pictures (...3602.jpg), the first sentence is .. 雪飄又雪飄飄 Where 雪 = Snow ---> noun, Matching to Wind (風) 飄 = Floating ---> verb. Matching to 嫋(4) Another way of guessing the character Such a long text in the scroll. it is difficult to matching fully. But we may still pick randomly for checking. Such as on the left side show 日, and the left side might be 月 In the text, the poet use 花 to matching 月. Acceptable ! (花好 pk 月圓) To know the whole scroll takes time. But it will be fun. ( Acting as the treasure explorer.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
耳耳语语 Posted February 4, 2014 at 05:09 PM Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 at 05:09 PM Thank you so much ! OMG i still know nothing about chinese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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