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I would like to know the translation of this chinese seal.

八徴耄念之寶　
Treasure of concern over the eight phenomena of an octogenarian

This is a very clumsy copy of the engraving on a jade seal in the collection of the National Palace in Taipei.
The seal was a birthday gift for the Qianlong emperor's 80th birthday.

https://theme.npm.edu.tw/opendata/DigitImageSets.aspx?sNo=04011266&lang=2

With regards,
I.Nagy

Hello Mr. Nagy, Thank you for the translation and i understand it is a bad copy. But the first chinese caraters you posted reads: The treasure of eight immortals. But you translated it as Treasure of concern over the eight phenomena of an octogenarian. And Mikeoz said the the first caracters read the celebration of the 80th birthday of the qianlong emperor.What is the correct tekst from top to bottom of the seal?

The most important thing to note is that modern computer technology is not yet capable of translating classical literary texts. Many people simply type the Chinese characters into the Google translator, which makes unintelligible mistranslations. For the time being, learning Chinese classical literary language by traditional methods is not yet avoidable.
First let's just take the characters on by one:
八　bā eight
徴　zhēng　evidence,phenomena, proof, sign, potent (literary)
耄* mào 　 octogenarian, eighty years old
念　niàn　 thought, idea, concern
之　zhī　　posessive particle
寶　băo 　 treasure

*　For characters with many stroke, their seal script forms are simplified, which is how our friend mikeoz misread 耄 as 年

I translate it:
Treasure of concern over the eight phenomena of an octogenarian



In the meantime I found the following translation on a sotheby's site: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/fine-chinese-ceramics-and-works-of-art-n08872/lot.303.html
This is also not a proper translation, e.g. the "eight" is left out - which also affects the word order of the sentence.

With regards,
I.Nagy

oke, thank you for the very good explanation.

This seal has an estimate of 20.000-50.000 dollar and sold for 3.1 million dollars. It has the same seal script type as mine.

While the first three characters 八徵年 were used to celebrate the 80th birthday of the QianLong Emperor, this seal looks far from Imperial quality and has most probably been made to deceive the unwiting tourist.

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