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

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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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Comments

Re: 295. 賚 - Lai

[x_los]

"Right is it we should have received [the kingdom]." who's 'we', and are you his descendants, that his actions earned your inheritance?

'settlement' in what sense?

"the appointment of Zhou;" so is this like--a belief in the 'appointment' as the SAME mandate, passed around like an unwanted fruitcake? or is this talking about his lineage legitimising the power transfer?

Re: 295. 賚 - Lai

[superborb]

Baike says that this is Wu wang warning the feudal princes who are under his rule at the end of the Da Wu performance (i.e. after he succeeds in conquering the Shang)

Settlement in the sense of stability / settling the country I think??

Appointment in the sense of the mandate of heaven now upon the Zhou