Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Lessons from the States, Odes Of Wei and Odes of Wang

[x_los]

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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'.

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Comments

Re: 55. 淇奧 - Qi Yu

[forestofglory]

"As from the knife and the file,
As from the chisel and the polisher!"

Is this bit saying he looks like a statute? (ala the Twin Jades?)

The file bit struck out at me because someone asked if I knew anything about ancient nail files, but this pretty clearly isn't a nail file.