Is that ALL the fuckin title? Du Fu. We gotta talk about what a title is.
Recording skips most of the title/preface.
Interesting for being one of few poems in the collection about women artists.
“danced by a female performer in military costume and seems to have been some kind of war dance involving much violent movement.” Oh huh, just as art or for any ceremonial reason?
“the fu, a sort of euphuistic essay in mixed prose and verse.” Oh, neat clear def of a fu
Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing a deliberate excess of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions and rhetorical questions.
Astrakhan: this is a low dense curled wool russian style hat
The dancing mistress, her pupil and Du Fu, the observer, seem to jump between the palace and the regions they hail from originally or are otherwise active in (Yè-xiàn and Yǎn-chéng) in a way that I don’t quite get.
It’s interesting that Du Fu thinks, apparently after this calligrapher, that watching this artist in a very different field can inspire one’s own art practice. I wouldn’t necessarily have thought it of dance, particularly.
“Her flashing swoop was like the nine suns falling, transfixed by the Mighty Archer’s arrows;” this is interesting bc I might have identified her with Yi, the dextrous and skilled shooting agent, rather than the object of his skill
“This ‘freezing’ in the midst of violent action is familiar to anyone who has watched battle scenes in Chinese opera.” Oh neat
Du Fu seems very ambivalent re whether this elderly (?) woman is hot or not. She’s past her prime! She’s handsome! Her looks are fading! Just enjoy your admiration boner, Du Fu, it’s chill.
'will someone come and judge my boner??' it's like 767 and you're out of favour, living in the boonies: Nobody Cares
“like a flick of the hand” is this an invocation of the motion of the dance itself?
“Royal tombs, like other royal buildings, face the south.” Interesting. Why?
“On the rocky walls of Ch’ü-t’ang the dead grasses blow forlornly” what’s this do?
“The moon rises in the east;” any special significance?
What do we make of the ending?
“The grass writing is a kind of style of calligraphy that breakthroughs the strict forms of Chinese characters, making the Chinese characters being written simpler”
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Re: 31. 觀公孫大娘弟子舞劍器行 Guān Gōng-sūn dà-niáng dì-zǐ wǔ jiàn-qì xíng
Date: 2021-11-08 02:48 pm (UTC)Recording skips most of the title/preface.
Interesting for being one of few poems in the collection about women artists.
“danced by a female performer in military costume and seems to have been some kind of war dance involving much violent movement.” Oh huh, just as art or for any ceremonial reason?
“the fu, a sort of euphuistic essay in mixed prose and verse.” Oh, neat clear def of a fu
Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing a deliberate excess of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions and rhetorical questions.
Astrakhan: this is a low dense curled wool russian style hat
The dancing mistress, her pupil and Du Fu, the observer, seem to jump between the palace and the regions they hail from originally or are otherwise active in (Yè-xiàn and Yǎn-chéng) in a way that I don’t quite get.
It’s interesting that Du Fu thinks, apparently after this calligrapher, that watching this artist in a very different field can inspire one’s own art practice. I wouldn’t necessarily have thought it of dance, particularly.
“Her flashing swoop was like the nine suns falling, transfixed by the Mighty Archer’s arrows;” this is interesting bc I might have identified her with Yi, the dextrous and skilled shooting agent, rather than the object of his skill
“This ‘freezing’ in the midst of violent action is familiar to anyone who has watched battle scenes in Chinese opera.” Oh neat
Du Fu seems very ambivalent re whether this elderly (?) woman is hot or not. She’s past her prime! She’s handsome! Her looks are fading! Just enjoy your admiration boner, Du Fu, it’s chill.
'will someone come and judge my boner??' it's like 767 and you're out of favour, living in the boonies: Nobody Cares
“like a flick of the hand” is this an invocation of the motion of the dance itself?
“Royal tombs, like other royal buildings, face the south.” Interesting. Why?
“On the rocky walls of Ch’ü-t’ang the dead grasses blow forlornly” what’s this do?
“The moon rises in the east;” any special significance?
What do we make of the ending?
“The grass writing is a kind of style of calligraphy that breakthroughs the strict forms of Chinese characters, making the Chinese characters being written simpler”