Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Odes of the Temple&Altar, Praise-Odes Of Lu & Sacrificial Odes Of Shang

[x_los]

LAST WEEK OF SHI JING!!

Get your comments in on what we do next here, and I'll put up the poll on Saturday!

* 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.

Comments

Re: 魯頌 - Praise-Odes Of Lu: 297. 駉 - Jiong

[x_los]

Breeched: 'The original sense was ‘garment covering the loins and thighs’ (compare with breeches), hence ‘the buttocks’ (breech (sense 2 of the noun), mid 16th century), later ‘the hind part’ of anything.'

bay: 'Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish-brown or brown body color with a black point coloration of the mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs.'

'His thoughts are without limit; -' ?

'He thinks of his horses, and they are thus good.' because he cares for them, they're good?

Piebald: 'A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales. Thus a piebald black and white dog is a black dog with white spots.'

How is a horse GREEN?!

dapple: any of numerous usually cloudy and rounded spots or patches of a color or shade different from their background

'Some are flecked as with scales;' ...buddy are these horses? or like. are you trying to describe dragons.

'some, with fishes' eyes;' the fuck.

What are these end couplets doing?

Re: 魯頌 - Praise-Odes Of Lu: 297. 駉 - Jiong

[douqi]

On the green horses: I looked up 騏 and it apparently means 青黑色的马, literally a green-black horse. But 青, the word that's translated as green, can also mean blue and/or black.