Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Lessons from the states, Odes Of Bei

[x_los]

This is a longer chapter than the previous two, and people are still catching up with the last two chapters/acclimating to the format. Thus we'll only do one chapter this week.

I'm going to post this week's poem translations in the body of the discussion to make commenting a bit easier. 

Get your 'odes of bae' jokes out early, before the rush.

Comments

Re: 32. 凱風 - Kai Feng

[superborb]

Baidu says the "heart" in the first stanza indicates tiny thorns; also the word 棘 which indicates jujube trees now has a dictionary definition of thorn, which is interesting word drift, and was very confusing to me on first read ^^;

Baidu also notes that the title of this poem is also often used as shorthand for filial piety now.

Re: 32. 凱風 - Kai Feng

[x_los]

That's interesting because like, ALL we know about these sons is that: they are bad at it?

Re: 32. 凱風 - Kai Feng

[superborb]

Maybe more "maternal love" in its implication?