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Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Odes of the Temple and the Altar, Sacrificial Odes of Zhou, Chen Gong
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* 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.
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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.
**NEXT BATCH JUNE 21.**
ONLY 3 SHI JING WEEKS LEFT, THIS INCLUDED!
280. 有瞽 - You Gu
設業設虡、崇牙樹羽、應田縣鼓、鞉磬柷圉。
既備乃奏。
簫管備舉。
喤喤厥聲、肅雝和鳴、先祖是聽。
我客戾止、永觀厥成。
There are the blind musicians; there are the blind musicians;
In the court of [the temple of] Zhou.
There are [the music frames] with their face-boards and posts,
The high toothed-edge [of the former], and the feathers stuck [in the latter];
With the drums, large and small, suspended from them;
And the hand-drums and sounding-stones, the instrument to give the signal for commencing, and the stopper.
These being all complete, the music is struck up.
The pan-pipe and the double-flute begin at the same time.
Harmoniously blend their sounds;
In solemn unison they give forth their notes.
Our ancestors will give ear;
Our visitors will be there; -
Long to witness the complete performance.
Re: 280. 有瞽 - You Gu
"There are [the music frames] with their face-boards and posts,
The high toothed-edge [of the former], and the feathers stuck [in the latter];
With the drums, large and small, suspended from them;
And the hand-drums and sounding-stones, the instrument to give the signal for commencing, and the stopper." so we're talking multiple frames of instruments like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrLjz7D8jwQ and the stones from last time?
Long as in, they are longing to, or as in they have waited a long time?
Re: 280. 有瞽 - You Gu
We did discuss before; during the Zhou dynasty, music officials were selected from the congenitally blind.
I think that kind of instrument, yes?
I think "longing to" -- the Baike vernacular is more like "after the music finished, everyone praised it simultaneously"