Little Primer of Du Fu, Poems 1-5

[x_los]

This week we start David Hawkes' Little Primer of Du Fu. I'll replicate the poems themselves here, but this book contains considerable exegesis, so I do advise you to grab this copy.

Because this exegesis is relatively substantial, let's start by reading poems 1 through 5, inclusive. There are 35 poems in the collection, so this should take us about seven weeks (unless we scale either up or down, after speaking about it).

I'm gathering additional research materials, but for this first week I'd like us to concentrate on Hawkes' introduction and the first of these poems. 

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Re: 3. 麗人行 Lì-rén xíng

[forestofglory]

We actually know more about Tang fashion now! We have surviving garments and fashion dolls.

Also its confusing that he translates the double third festival as "spring festival" because I generally see spring festival used to mean the two weeks after lunar new year.