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* Two chapters translate in pinyin into Odes of Wei. This is the first one, not the second.
* I'm posting these two chapters together because they're short. We'll drop to one chapter a week if a chapter hits 'about 20' poems rather than 'about 10'.
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Some notes:
* Two chapters translate in pinyin into Odes of Wei. This is the first one, not the second.
* I'm posting these two chapters together because they're short. We'll drop to one chapter a week if a chapter hits 'about 20' poems rather than 'about 10'.
* Every week I search the poems' English results to see if I can find any scholarship or neat bits and pop the results in Resources. Here is this week's collection.
* The first of our reminder emails should have gone out on Saturday. If you did not get an email but you'd like to be on the list, please let me know!
If you would like not to be on the list and there isn't an unsubscribe option in the email itself, please just respond 'unsubscribe' or something and I'll take you off the reminder roster.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* If you haven't read it yet, chapter one, on tetrasyllabic shi poetry, in How to Read Chinese Poetry is hugely useful for the Book of Odes, imo.
64. 木瓜 - Mu Gua
匪報也、永以為好也。
There was presented to me a papaya,
And I returned for it a beautiful Ju-gem;
Not as a return for it,
But that our friendship might be lasting.
投我以木桃、報之以瓊瑤。
匪報也、永以為好也。
There was presented to me a peach,
And I returned for it a beautiful Yao-gem;
Not as a return for it,
But that our friendship might be lasting.
投我以木李、報之以瓊玖。
匪報也、永以為好也。
There was presented to me a plum,
And I returned for it a beautiful Jiu-gem;
Not as a return for it,
But that our friendship might be lasting.
Re: 64. 木瓜 - Mu Gua
Here is an article on this poem:
https://wenku.baidu.com/view/9efed52fb4daa58da0114ad8.html
Re: 64. 木瓜 - Mu Gua
"It was said that from Song Dynasty that some people read it as a love poem to describe the resonance between two lovers. The woman threw fruits to the man to show her love while the man took the jade off and bestowed to the woman in return. This was an ancient custom in China." er. this isn't--the loquat throwing thing, is it?