If you can read chinese characters - pls translate this teeshirt for me.

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dighn

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Originally posted by: The_good_guy
My cousin bought it for me in China.. and tells me its a poem written by Chairmen Mao called the "Ode to the Plum".. but I am not sure.[/L]
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that's what it says at the end. though it's plum as in the flower not the fruit LOL!!!@!@~

but i have no idea what the main part says because i think it has a lot of archaic characters. even if i did, a poem would be hard as hell to translate
 
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suklee

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Woah, the only letters I can read are the first two (top right)

"Wind" and "Rain" :eek:
 
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sniperruff

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it reads...

"wind and rain..."

bah i am too tired. pick up a dictionary

no kidding but these are special artsy chinese writings. i doubt anyone here at ATOT studies chinese art writing...

but i did see the end that says "lyrics by mao ze dong"... yup chairman mao

but his communism idea is pretty retarded. sent all the students to work on farms??? that really set back china from the rest of the world by quite a few years...
 
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eLiu

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I know about half of the characters...that's a very archaic writing style. Actually I'm not even sure if every character there is from the same time period, lol. But I don't recognize enough to turn out a meaning. Even worse is that w/chinese, even if you know every word in a poem, that doesnt mean you can interpret the poem...authors often take license w/the language and leave out words & create their own expressions...it's insane.

Edit: that's not artsy, lol. "Arsty" within the past 3 (i think) hundred years is called "grass words/writing" (translated directly)...it's kind of like Chinese cursive. A LOT of writing you see in chinese restaurants (on those paintings) are in that style. Some of those words are MUCH older (like before the first millenium). If you've ever examined the roots of chinese words, you'll see a lot of those (well the simple ones are all i can recognize) in that text.
 
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Pepsei

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it's mostly old style, but it's by chairman mao... you better burn that shirt.
 
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sniperruff

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Originally posted by: eLiu
I know about half of the characters...that's a very archaic writing style. Actually I'm not even sure if every character there is from the same time period, lol. But I don't recognize enough to turn out a meaning. Even worse is that w/chinese, even if you know every word in a poem, that doesnt mean you can interpret the poem...authors often take license w/the language and leave out words & create their own expressions...it's insane.

Edit: that's not artsy, lol. "Arsty" within the past 3 (i think) hundred years is called "grass words/writing" (translated directly)...it's kind of like Chinese cursive. A LOT of writing you see in chinese restaurants (on those paintings) are in that style. Some of those words are MUCH older (like before the first millenium). If you've ever examined the roots of chinese words, you'll see a lot of those (well the simple ones are all i can recognize) in that text.
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arsty. thanks. i'm a fob.
 
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Munkies123

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it says eat at chon wan's all you can eat till you all full, 1/2 off happy family with poo poo platter
 
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