Danmei Society for the Egregious Misuse of Chinese Poetry and Literature

This type of reading is all about the Mao School (not That Mao, another Mao), where it's basically Scholasticism, but for Confucianism. These poems were sometimes ritual instructions/attachments and got passed down *with* core Confucian texts, so a lot of scholars thought they HAD to be read as hyper-official commentary on public events, not Poems About Getting Laid. So from an interpretation POV, we now think--they were probably wrong, it's about Getting Laid. From a historical POV, there's a lot of interesting thinking/work/arguments involving the hyper political readings, tho, so it's not like they're fully discardable? It's useful in terms of figuring out how someone is using a poem in a given time period.