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Can you help me read these, or help me identify the characters? They're written on the backing paper of a scroll painting, probably from my great grandmother from about 1925. I’ve tried two different OCR packages and get nothing. Here are a picture of the painting, the inscriptions on its back, and my attempts to trace the inscriptions for use with OCR.
I actually a bit skeptical about this calligraphy, because the semantic (meaning) is a bit confusing, is it 普通话 or 白话 or 福建话 or any other dialects? If it is 普通话, then..
From last to first, I can only identify the last 4 characters, that is 晚春 wan3 chun2, means night spring.
The middle one might be 大念 means big aspiration or something, since 念 is like 怀念 or 念想. It is illogical to say that the middle one is 贪, because 贪污 means embezzlement (in political context) and even 包含 in 含满 and 包含 . So I'll go with 念 nian4 instead of 贪 tan1 and 含 han2.
not quite sure about the three characters in the middle, perhaps 梅-二-大-？（含？舍？）-晚-春
