Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Lessons from the States, Odes Of Zheng

[x_los]

Back after the Christmas/New Year break! I'd really like to get through the Book of Odes in the next months, so we can enter into our next Tang or Song offering. I'll try to be more regulated in the poem posts accordingly. 

Some notes:

* 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.

* I believe the reminder emails have stopped, so I'll seek a new service to run that. 

When the second batch of these is up and running, 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.

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* 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.

**NEXT BATCH FEB 1.**

Comments

Re: 91. 子衿 - Zi Jin

[douqi]

This is referenced in the title of Chapter 17 of Jin Yong's Sword Stained with Royal Blood, 青衿心上意 彩笔画中人. The Ninth Princess, returned to the palace after having met male lead Yuan Chengzhi out in the world, recites the entire poem to herself while completing a portrait of him.

On a completely unrelated note, the first line (青青子衿、悠悠我心) also turns up in Cao Cao's poem 短歌行 (Short Song Style). Baike informs me that this a reference to his search for military/political/scholarly talent, which possibly calls back to 子衿 being a reference to scholar's robes.

Re: 91. 子衿 - Zi Jin

[x_los]

btw it is VERY hard to search for articles online about these poems bc people keep naming people/poems after THESE poems and/or heavily quoting them x_x

Re: 91. 子衿 - Zi Jin

[douqi]

Lol I saw a Baidu disambiguation page listing no fewer than 5 poems and at least one drama named after and/or referencing this specific one.