Brendan Hughes

I assume it's Mandarin, rather than Cantonese. (Maybe they're the same, I dunno...)

We have a document framed on our wall, about A0 size, in two languages - old Mongolian script and Chinese. We can't read either and don't know anyone who can. People come and say "Wow, what's that?" and we have to say we don't know. Looks rather official at that size though. I would say it is either an agreement of some sort (contract? land?) or a law written in two languages for the population of Inner Mongolia. But that's a real guess. The Chinese is about 250 characters in I think 4 vertical lines.

I know there are some people of Chinese descent on SN. Is anyone willing to receive a few photos by email (it's long and thin, so I'd have to send the top, middle and bottom) and let me know what it's about? Direct translation would be fantastic, but I'd be happy just with the gist of it.

thanks

Brendan

wwp8

i never knew, mandarin and cantonese is different text (hehe) i always thought it was a language.
maybe its it pinyin?

my sister loves reading chinese scripts ( i however bunked off school and never learnt more than just my name)
my sister may do it, depends on the time she has.

Rage!

It says "I can't believe tourists buy this crap!"

njkmrs

I think I have seen something similar .
Did it have lots of numbers on it as well .
With English writing at the bottom.

















"Collect or Deliveries available"

Gutmann pug

Chicken Chow mein
BBQ spare ribs
Kung po chilli chicken

Longjing

Pinyin is the romanized form of writing Chinese, so it won't be that... eg dragon well is longjing in pinyin and 龙井 in simplified characters.

I can't read Chinese so can't help, sorry. I'd guess that it's Mandarin because of the Mongolian text Brendan mentions... so less likely to be a southern chinese form I'd have thought. And if it's old it's probably traditional characters rather than the simplified ones used now.

Petem95

Just take it down to your local chinky - I'm sure they'll be happy to translate and you can pickup some sweet and sour chicken and spring rolls while your there

DCI Gene Hunt

Yes I can read it...... just don't have a feckin clue what it says

Wurzel

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we have a Chinese girl here who can read Chinese, if you post a pic of it or mail me one I can ask her to translate it for you.

Brendan Hughes

Wurzel, wwp8, I would appreciate that, can you pm me your emails? I can send it as two photos, top and bottom, probably about 3MB each so yahoo/hotmail boxes perhaps unadvisable

Many thanks.

It's expected to be at least 60 yrs old as that's when they stopped using old Mongolian, at least for official documents.

Wurzel

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Brendan YHPM

Brendan Hughes

Very many thanks to Wurzel and wwp8, and victorial who offered to help.

It's an old law about registration of monks.

Cheers for your help all