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Dear forum members,

May i kindly ask you to translate this for me. I bought this painting in Yangshuo twenty years ago.

Thank you very much indeed.

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Picture of 钟馗 (a traditional Chinese god) subduing a tiger.

The text:

钟馗  (name of the god)

诚既勇兮又以武  终刚强兮不可凌
身既死兮神以灵  魂魄毅兮为鬼雄
 
(Part of a poem 《九歌·国殇》 by Qu Yuan 屈原(~300 BC), mourning the fallen soldiers of his nation).
 
丙辰年之秋德元写于成都之西郊 (Written by Deyuan in the fall of 1976 (or 1916) in the western countryside of Chengdu).
 
 
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You're right.  It's 德元. I didn't read the seal, and it was 德 in running grass script in the text also.  Post corrected.

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