If you recall, middle Chinese had different tones than modern -- four, but a different four than modern Mandarin -- and level vs oblique (the other three) is the important distinction for poetry rhyme patterns.
This is a different jun. Someday you'll start learning characters and it will be all downhill from there.
"Door" is a metonym for a family/household. As qing no longer has 'cold' as a top level meaning, the modern Chinese equivalent (per Baike) is 寒门, "cold-door".
Regret to inform that the pinyin version is of O is E. :)
Per baike's gloss, the nine heavens is referring to the palace, and the ancients thought horses over 8 chi became dragons. Baike's vernacular says "for a moment, the dragon-horse of the heavens appeared on the silk"
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Re: 23. 丹青引 贈曹將軍霸 Dān-qīng yǐn Zèng Cáo jiāng-jūn Bà
Date: 2021-10-31 11:09 pm (UTC)This is a different jun. Someday you'll start learning characters and it will be all downhill from there.
"Door" is a metonym for a family/household. As qing no longer has 'cold' as a top level meaning, the modern Chinese equivalent (per Baike) is 寒门, "cold-door".
Regret to inform that the pinyin version is of O is E. :)
Per baike's gloss, the nine heavens is referring to the palace, and the ancients thought horses over 8 chi became dragons. Baike's vernacular says "for a moment, the dragon-horse of the heavens appeared on the silk"