Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Odes of the Temple&Altar, Sacrificial Odes of Zhou, Min Yu Xiao Zi

[x_los]

 * 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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Comments

Re: 289. 小毖 - Xiao Bi

[x_los]

what wasp, and why would you think a wasp was a wren and then a giant bird? this metaphor is really Going Places

Re: 289. 小毖 - Xiao Bi

[x_los]

Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century, B.C.E
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=72QURrAppzkC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=Xiao+Bi+poem+shi+jing&source=bl&ots=lOdODwmTq9&sig=ACfU3U1C36BoXwAi8plq1qStLzDecgbttg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtwdKu2KjxAhUGDWMBHRcbCe8Q6AEwEXoECB4QAw#v=onepage&q=Xiao%20Bi%20poem%20shi%20jing&f=false

Mentions that this and songs like it are about "portraying the king as a noble, virtuous and moral ruler, were sung by the king himself expressing his determination to ward off evil and self-corruption as well as his sincerity in seeking wise counsel from his ministers and officials."

Re: 289. 小毖 - Xiao Bi

[ann712]

I don’t think it should be interpreted that he thinks the wasp is a wren. I read it that he doesn’t want to grasp the nettle (so to speak) which is the wasp thing.
Then he says that the challenges he faced seemed small ( wren) at first but then proved to be a large bird when it took off.