Chinese is written from right to left in certain Scripts. If you could upload some complete stills in the description I’d be more than glad to the transcribe it for you.
@@cannonmnapologies for the late reply. Turns out this was out of my level and I’ve had to consult my old Chinese teacher who was equally bepuzzled by some of the characters on the cannon. He reasons that the artisans that engraved the cannon may not have been literate.
wow, stylish with the spacing of the reinforcing rings! Is the parting line dangerous it looks sketchy/worrisome. I guess that's why its bronze so it could be bored out easily, another benefit is it warps before shattering when a steel cannon might not. Bronze is a little lighter aswell. Did they care about those thing or was broze only chosen because it bore better?
I'm not sure if the Chinese had any type of Steel industry when this was made. (?) They were probably more comfortable with bronze back then. Could have been made by a warlord of some type.
Made under supervision in the 23rd year of Daoguang, No.32 of the Tian character series (similar to No.32 of group A, a way of keeping record of many items back then). 30 catty weight cannon Supervisor: Ma Qin, Su Kui, Zhou Ji X Take pure powder 1 liang 7 qian (1 catty=16 liang=160 qian), lead ball 2 liang 2 qian
@@EXO9X8I posted link to stills but maybe it disappeared? Trying again, photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOOHglMiXK_rmWxECIYDeq7u3oE1m2ZPHH5cdlumDuyqTtUeqbGel3QhXRiI54uLA?key=S0J0N0Y3ckR1eG5FN1pFOVJYVHJFUDN6SWRRdXRn
