<p>First image:</p>
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<p>五湖烟Ｘ（水）潤（闊），【⿱人口】（何）【⿱雨Ｘ】（處）浣春紗</p>
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<p>Second image, top:</p>
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<p>紅粉【⿰氵⿱Ｘ而】（溪）【⿰辵Ｘ】（邊）石，年年漾【⿱艹⿰氵吝】（落）【⿱艹Ｘ】（花）</p>
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<p><a href="https://ccddb.net/%E9%9D%9C%E5%BF%97%E5%B1%85%E8%A9%A9%E8%A9%B1/%E5%8D%B7%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E5%9B%9B/%E7%84%A1%E5%90%8D%E5%AD%90/%E5%B1%A0%E7%94%9F" rel="nofollow noreferrer">These two lines belong to a poem</a>, but the lines are reversed. The poet's name is unknown.</p>
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<p>紅粉溪邊石，年年漾落花。</p>
<p><em>At the stones by the Lovers' Creek, fallen blossoms drift year after year</em></p>
<p>五湖烟水闊，何處浣春紗？</p>
<p><em>Amid the wide waters and vast mists of the Five Lakes, where might silk cloths be cleansed?</em></p>
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<p>Second image, bottom:</p>
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<p>暗水流花經（徑），春星帶艸堂</p>
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<p>Line from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dù Fǔ of Táng</a>'s <a href="https://ctext.org/text.pl?node=149386&amp;if=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">《夜宴左氏莊》</a> (<em>Evening Banquet at the Manor of Clan Zuǒ</em>).</p>
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<p><em>The quiet stream flows beside the flower-cradled path; the stars of a spring evening illuminates the cottage.</em></p>
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<p>I'm sorry to say, this isn't a good piece of craft. The characters are barely legible - at least 1/3 of them are written incorrectly, some of it is in Simplified Chinese (unreadable in seal script shapes), and another 1/3 are very distorted.</p>

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<p>page 1 玉湖烟雨润X,XX青楼, I guess,when I wrote down X it means I'm not sure.it means the lake scenery is very beautiful, like jade, the rain is very small and dense like smoke, very beautiful scenery is written in refined language.</p>

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<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/gwHwNYcI.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/gwHwNYcI.jpg" alt="Side 1" /></a>
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/HlQIJx9O.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/HlQIJx9O.jpg" alt="Side 2" /></a></p>
<p>Picked this up long ago from an Australian dealer in Chinese textiles</p>

<translation><character-identification><seal>
Please help me read the embroidered text on this fan sleeve
# Please help me read the embroidered text on this fan sleeve

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-11-27)

[![Side 1](https://i.sstatic.net/gwHwNYcI.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/gwHwNYcI.jpg)
[![Side 2](https://i.sstatic.net/HlQIJx9O.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/HlQIJx9O.jpg)

Picked this up long ago from an Australian dealer in Chinese textiles

**Tags:** translation, character-identification, seal


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2024-11-27. Score: 2

First image:

> 五湖烟Ｘ（水）潤（闊），【⿱人口】（何）【⿱雨Ｘ】（處）浣春紗

Second image, top:

> 紅粉【⿰氵⿱Ｘ而】（溪）【⿰辵Ｘ】（邊）石，年年漾【⿱艹⿰氵吝】（落）【⿱艹Ｘ】（花）

[These two lines belong to a poem](https://ccddb.net/%E9%9D%9C%E5%BF%97%E5%B1%85%E8%A9%A9%E8%A9%B1/%E5%8D%B7%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E5%9B%9B/%E7%84%A1%E5%90%8D%E5%AD%90/%E5%B1%A0%E7%94%9F), but the lines are reversed. The poet's name is unknown.

> 紅粉溪邊石，年年漾落花。
>
> *At the stones by the Lovers' Creek, fallen blossoms drift year after year*
>
> 五湖烟水闊，何處浣春紗？
>
> *Amid the wide waters and vast mists of the Five Lakes, where might silk cloths be cleansed?*

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Second image, bottom:

> 暗水流花經（徑），春星帶艸堂

Line from [Dù Fǔ of Táng](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu)'s [《夜宴左氏莊》](https://ctext.org/text.pl?node=149386&if=en) (*Evening Banquet at the Manor of Clan Zuǒ*).

> *The quiet stream flows beside the flower-cradled path; the stars of a spring evening illuminates the cottage.*

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I'm sorry to say, this isn't a good piece of craft. The characters are barely legible - at least 1/3 of them are written incorrectly, some of it is in Simplified Chinese (unreadable in seal script shapes), and another 1/3 are very distorted.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2024-11-27. Score: 0

page 1 玉湖烟雨润X,XX青楼, I guess,when I wrote down X it means I'm not sure.it means the lake scenery is very beautiful, like jade, the rain is very small and dense like smoke, very beautiful scenery is written in refined language.


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