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.
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All I can make out of is 梅: ? ? 晚春– Tang Ho ♦Feb 14, 2022 at 0:28
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maybe “梅梅大x” & “皖x”, imo 😸– 水巷孑蠻Feb 14, 2022 at 0:55
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methinks, great grandma won't win any calligraphy prizes! I asked someone who is usually good at this to look, but no, undecipherable! Personally, I think the first 3 may be: 枚二大,but I am not a reliable source for deciphering squiggles!– PedroskiFeb 14, 2022 at 23:53
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Thank you so much for trying! You are doing much better at it than I can. I hope someone can still make sense of it.– Tim LeonardFeb 15, 2022 at 1:12
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By the way, where is the first inscription located on the painting? It doesn't seem to be the one right above the seal. I suppose the location of the writing might give it some context that could help determining its meaning.– Elliot YuFeb 15, 2022 at 1:24
2 Answers
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