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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* 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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279. 豐年 - Feng Nian

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豐年多黍多稌。
亦有高廩、萬億及秭。
為酒為醴、烝畀祖妣、以洽百禮。
降福孔皆。

Abundant is the year, with much millet and much rice;
And we have our high granaries,
With myriads, and hundreds of thousands, and millions [of measures in them];
For spirits and sweet spirits,
To present to our ancestors, male and female,
And to supply all out ceremonies.
The blessings sent down on us are of every kind.

Re: 279. 豐年 - Feng Nian

[x_los]

So they have 'sweet spirits' too, then. Malibu rum, et al.

Re: 279. 豐年 - Feng Nian

[superborb]

Baike informs me that this type of song is only performed in years of good harvest or it would seem like a mockery.