In our family a set of four Chinese paintings were called something that sounds like «daitse» or «die-tse» but we cannot find out the actual word and its meaning. Can anyone help? The theme of the set is four seasons and four classes.
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What do you mean four classes? Are those school classes? Or four classes in society? like noble, merchants, warrior, worker?– Tang Ho ♦Commented Jan 19, 2019 at 19:18
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would it be "題詩" /ti shī / (written poem)?– Tang Ho ♦Commented Jan 27, 2019 at 12:26
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Social classes, from left to right: Winter, a man writing
Spring, a man sitting on an ox
Summer, a couple making bundles of twigs
Autumn, a man fishing, a woman holding a basket
i guess it's "代謝", when the theme is four seasons:
http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cgi-bin/cbdic/gsweb.cgi?o=dcbdic&searchid=Z00000042337
roughly means evolvement, replacement.
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代謝 bkrs dài xiè 交替 更替： 四时代谢 | 新陈代谢 familiar to most users as metabolism (biol.)– user6065Commented Jan 19, 2019 at 16:36