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x_los ([personal profile] x_los) wrote in [community profile] dankodes2021-06-10 02:01 pm

Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Odes of the Temple and the Altar, Sacrificial Odes of Zhou, Qing Miao

   * I found the best option for the weekly reminder emails, via Gmail. The external service options are more involved than our purposes require. Does anyone know anything about how to arrange an Apps Script? Basically all it has to do is tell ten people, on Saturdays, to come and get their juice/poems.

Until someone knows what to do there, I'll send out manual messages weekly. If you'd like to receive these and are not getting them, please let me know.

* If you haven't read it yet, chapter one, on tetrasyllabic shi poetry, in 
How to Read Chinese Poetry is hugely useful for the Book of Odes, imo. 

* Remember you can also look at 
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context.

* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on 
this post.

* Every week I search the poems' English results to see if I can find any scholarship or neat bits and pop the results in Resources. Here is this week's collection.


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Re: 268. 維清 - Wei Qing

[personal profile] superborb 2021-06-14 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I think maybe it's taking the pure connotation of clear?

Wen wang is the one who is honored as the founder of the dynasty, so the complete State was created by him -- so I read it as from beginning to end in this nice complete State?
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Re: 268. 維清 - Wei Qing

[personal profile] superborb 2021-06-14 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Baike says this is describing the change away from the 'fatalism' of the earlier Yin Shang dynasty, and how the authority to conduct sacrifices went from just the king to also the feudal princes, allowing the people to conduct sacrifices when they wanted.