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dankodesLAST 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.
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.
Re: 商頌 - Sacrificial Odes Of Shang: 304. 長發 - Chang Fa
"of its daughter" nice that she's who the descent comes from?
"The dark king " sexy?
"Xiang-tu, all-ardent," is this the king? or a successor?
"Tang was not born too late," ?
"Brilliant was the influence of his character [on Heaven] for long," the [] seems wrong?
"rank-tokens " authority over? what ARE these as actual items?
"The root, with its three shoots,
Could make no progress, no growth." the root of rebellion?
odd finishing note, to focus on this other guy, and only a minister at that
Re: 商頌 - Sacrificial Odes Of Shang: 304. 長發 - Chang Fa
In the Shi Jing continuing to sound like weird porn, the rank-tokens bit literally translates to (on a contemporary reading anyway) 'received small balls and big balls'.
The other guy was apparently a major minister: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Yin
In dynastic founding stories there seems to be often a lot of focus on the officials/generals who did the founding alongside the actual emperor. So for e.g. Han Dynasty founding stories don't just focus on Liu Bang, but also on Zhang Liang, Han Xin and Xiao He, etc.
Re: 商頌 - Sacrificial Odes Of Shang: 304. 長發 - Chang Fa
Tang is the founder of the Shang dynasty. From the vernacular tl, the implication is more that he was born at the right time
The rank-tokens are glossed as some say jade artifacts, small ones two chi, big three chi, some say a homonym for 'law'. The vernacular tl uses jade tablet (ceremonial badge of rank)