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Hello translators! May I please request a few different peoples translations of this teacup? Hoping it is poetic as well as accurate. Thank you very much, experts! Here are the first 3 photos and the second 3 will be sent in a separate reply message.

Here are the last 3 visuals of the inscription . . . 3 in the first message and 3 in this second one.

Thanks Chinese language experts. I hope I can be of assistance with one of your postings in the future.

Happy hunting!

Just curious, who exactly are the few people you would like to translate this for you and why?

I don't understand your question. Who? Anyone who has the ability to translate Chinese into English. Why did I write "a few"? Because it has been my experience that different translators often use different words. Some translations may be fair quality (like from a computer translation program) and some others may be as poetic as the original writer intended.
In other words, I was just hoping that I could get at least one good translation out of 2 or 3 submitted. I understand all 3 may be identical and that is okay too. Do you understand what I mean? This message board is full of nice and knowledgeable people and I trust that a few people out there can transcribe the characters on this beautiful cup. Thanks for writing.

May be you should use a translation program?

Please understand that I did not mean disrespect to your request but when you said you wanted a few people to translate it really crack me up.

Only rat and I (may be one other) would probably able to identify this prose on your cups but to translate it would be another story, since it would take too much time. I advise you to pay somebody to do it. Again, no pun intended.

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