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Re: How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context's Chapter 15, "Du Fu: The Poet as Historian" (Reply)
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Re: How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context's Chapter 15, "Du Fu: The Poet as Historian"
Date:
2021-10-12 01:35 am (UTC)
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Turned into fish, from reading the baike vernacular tl, seems to be something like, so many dead bodies like fish in the river.
The hair in knots is the way they're translating the way people would "bind their hair on coming of age" (dictionary defn).
Counting as a common person I think is roughly the equivalent of being able to hold your head up / looking at yourself in the mirror?
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Re: How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context's Chapter 15, "Du Fu: The Poet as Historian"
Date: 2021-10-12 01:35 am (UTC)The hair in knots is the way they're translating the way people would "bind their hair on coming of age" (dictionary defn).
Counting as a common person I think is roughly the equivalent of being able to hold your head up / looking at yourself in the mirror?