Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Odes of the Temple and the Altar, Sacrificial Odes of Zhou, Chen Gong

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* 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.

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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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Re: 276. 臣工 - Chen Gong

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Baike tidbits:

The new fields and those of the third year: fields that have been cultivated two years are called xin (lit. new), those cultivated three years are called yu (lit. cultivated field).

As douqi points out, the spuds should really be shovel/spade, but a googling has informed me that spud is "a small, narrow spade for cutting the roots of plants, especially weeds". Presumably the tool used to dig up potatoes became the slang for the potato itself.