Long story short:
>found this inside a wooden chinese statue that my family had.
i do not have an image of the statue unfortunatley.
>>279186
timestamp and I'll do it.
>>279186
Legend:
?=char on left that I am not sure, might be a obsolete variant (异体字/異體字)
#=placeholder for cursive script/hole on paper
[A(B)]= A is the written simplified chinese character, B is the corresponding traditional character.
[A(B,C)]= A is simplified Japanese Kanji(Shinjitai), B is the simplified and C is the traditional chinese character.
[(A)B]= A is the corresponding simplified chinese character, B is the written traditional character.
{A/B}=not sure which character exactly it is, but quite sure it is one of the two.
[A &&&]=a variant of the word that is obsolete is written.
[A &&& B]=a variant of the word that is obsolete is written, A being the current one, B being the written one
From Right to left, top to bottom:
令述
中[(国)國]湖南省新化[县(縣)]{在/石}
[(马)馬]二都西云山[(兴)興 &&&][(国)國]
巷?祠下土地居住
地主[(谢)謝]道真先生
奉
神[(开)開 &&& ?]光保泰信士首人
{王/生}[从(從)]桂 [(张)張][乐(樂)]明茂和
茂朝明[汉(漢)]先生
老和茂[华(華)]光珍
光楚彭本利
[刘(劉)]陶仁 [邓(鄧)][继(繼)]武?
右[(系)係]合[(众)眾]人等即日
上[干(幹)]
黄?道意者言念[(为)為]因
人口六肥耕[种(種)]求[谋(謀)]
生理以及什#等[発(发,發)]
心雕刻
{趙/趞}天君金容神像一尊
自中腹[粮(糧)]之後
祈保[(众)眾]等人口安康
六畜[(兴)興 &&&]肥[种(種)]稹{耒/[来(來)]}登
百事勇?通{方/万(萬)}般如
意一切未言全明庇佑
天[(运)運]丙寅年六月大日吉
大
#光吉#士[击(擊)]家芬#
*A bunch of non-standard glyphs used in Talismans*
求之[(则)則][(应)應/(旷 in some cases)懬]
A low quality translation:
Statement
China Hunan Province Xinhua county {at/stone}
(some location I guess)
(under the temple?) living on this land
land owner Mr Xie Dao Zhen
*Offer w/respect*
{神?光????probably some religion} first believers in AD 1720-1729
Names
Names
Names
Names
Names
(some location/tribe?)'s people as of today
rise up high
/* something about good crops, sculpting and respecting the gods.
.
.
.
*/
/* something about wishing peace to the people, good harvest of crops and animals, everything goes smoothly and protection from the gods.
.
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*/
Date which is one of these years: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%99%E5%AF%85#.E4.B8.99.E5.AF.85.E5.B9.B4
Seeking and hence ???
I suspect the date was 1926 since they regularly used simplified characters of that era.
>>279288
Sorry, should have done that in the main photo. >>279318
>>279311
Thanks alot!
Also got an image of the statue.