CanadianBottles
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Okay I hope this works.
I was wondering whether or not this site would be blocked in China. Does the government block all discussion-based sites from the rest of the world? Or all vBulletin forums? I'm not sure why else this specific site would be targeted, unless they found enough of some certain keywords in the post history.
Ha ha no I couldn't read the writing, I just copied it like I would anything else. I still don't even quite understand how written Chinese works. So my attempts at writing out what was written on the bottles may be comically bad, I can't tell.
I'm surprised that you say Chinese bottles are more monotonous than Western bottles, since I remember seeing Chinese bottles in all sorts of fantastic colours that you rarely see in Western bottles when I lived on the West Coast. It's strange to see how expensive and hard it is to find bottles in China compared with how easy it is to find Chinese bottles in Canada. Canada didn't even have that many Chinese people at the time these bottles were used, I think there were around 10,000 Chinese people in the whole province at the turn of the century. I guess the problem is that no one is digging for bottles in China, whereas in Canada people have been digging up bottles for years, especially in the 1970's when the hobby was really popular. It's a shame you don't have access to anywhere to go digging, because I'm sure there are millions upon millions of fantastic bottles buried all over the place in China.
I've heard of those stoneware Wing Lee Wai bottles, though I don't remember ever seeing one. A few turn up here and there but very rarely. I'm guessing the glass bottles were intended for export while the stoneware ones were for use in China.
The soy sauce bottles are about the size of a tiger whiskey. I doubt they have anything to do with calligraphy, they're way too large and unweildy for any use that I can imagine.
Okay I'll try to post the pictures in a sec. These are just pictures of post-it notes with the characters written on them, since the bottles were too difficult to photograph.