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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: 267. 維天之命 - Wei Tian Zhi Ming

[personal profile] superborb 2021-06-14 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Baike glosses the deep as solemnly/dignified beauty and the unintermitting as without end, indicating natural law will continue without end

Agree with [personal profile] douqi that singleness is better as purity/virtue

Baike glosses the last line as more like, "may his posterity be forever diligent/sincere"