Jump to content
Chinese-Forums
  • Sign Up

Recommended Posts

  • New Members
Posted

Hi, This is written down the sides on a bicycle jersey. Can someone translate it for me? thanks!

post-63033-0-33202200-1445292133_thumb.jpg

post-63033-0-60486800-1445292139_thumb.jpg

  • New Members
Posted

left:爱莲:出淤泥而不染,濯清涟而不妖,中通

right:外直,不蔓不枝,香远益清,亭亭净植,可远观而不可亵玩焉。

It's an ancient prose of Chinese ,using the Classical Chinese words and sentence patterns.

The main points are praising the lotus and people with the same character(integrity or incorruptibility etc. ).

  • Like 1
Posted

#2 is correct, except that the third character of the left one is not a colon but the character “之”.

  • Like 1

Join the conversation

You can post now and select your username and password later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Click here to reply. Select text to quote.

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...