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: 43. 新臺 - Xin Tai

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Lol the slander in one of the sources, saying that Wei [state] Xuan gong committed incest with his stepmom, had a son, got a bride for his son, saw that the new bride was a great beauty, changed his mind, married her. Then the people made up this song to mock him.