The Works of Li Qingzhao, Ci Poems 3.33 - 3.40

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The fifth instalment of Li Qingzhao’s ci poetry. This book is freely available via De Gruyter's Library of Chinese Humanities in Mandarin and English and via several publication formats, including two open access options (the pdf appears to be better formatted than the ebook). We're reading the poems 3.33 through 3.40, inclusive.
 

How to Read Chinese Poetry has three chapters on the ci forms Li Qingzhao uses here:

 

Chapter 12, Ci Poetry: Short Song Lyrics (Xiaoling) 

Chapter 13, Ci Poetry: Long Song Lyrics (Manci) 

Chapter 14, Ci Poetry: Long Song Lyrics on Objects (Yongwu Ci)

This week, we look at Chapter 14 as recommended additional reading. 

Recall from the introduction that everything after 3.35 is relatively likely to be misattributed.

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Comments

Re: 3.36, Summoning Relatives on the Third Day Festival

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Baike's gloss is a very tenuous 北宋苏轼《吉祥寺赏牡丹》：“人老簪花不自羞，花应羞上老人头。”在这里反其意而用之。"When people are old, they aren't shy of putting flowers in their hair, but flowers are shy of being on old people's heads." Here used contrary to the intention of the reference.

I'm not quite sure how to understand this?