Posted 9 years ago
Christinez
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I found this in a box of ephemera I purchased at a flea market in Harpers Ferry, WV. It's on such fragile paper it's amazing that it isn't in worse condition. A Chinese colleague at my office just helped me to identify who the woman is in the illustration but it's hard for her to read because she says it is "old" Chinese - it reads vertically (up and down) and she doesn't recognize a lot of the characters. I currently have it framed between two plates of glass to keep it safe, although it seems to have survived many years in a box of old newspapers. I plan to hang it up on the wall with a miniature collection of terra cotta warriers and another item I haven't found yet. Enjoy!
Hi
I work at the home depot, and some of my colligue are chinese, so i remember one day i found some kind of same related item,a mao ste ton propaganta poster, and she help me to translated, so i will show her your picture and keep you posted.
Regards
Alan
Where is your picture
Hi
I talk to my friend today at work, she ask me to email her the picture, because it's look like you mention very old chinese writing,it's being little consuming to this at work, so i did email her, will see.
I keep you posted
regards
Alan
Hi
Christinez
This is the translation
This is a series of 4 books mainly talk about famous or beautiful women in history.
This page (page 36) said that in the old time (684 BC) there were lots of kings/emperors in China, this beautiful woman married to one emperor. Her beauty was so famous that another emperor attacked her country and captured her as queen. She had 2 sons with the second husband but she never talked to him. She was not happy but she couldn't die.
It's the ancient Chinese culture that a woman cannot marry 2 husbands. What I read is like a few pages of explanation. Chinese literature is like that small little paragraph ends up hundreds of words.
Cheer
Alan