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

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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.

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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

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The "blue collar" bit refers to Zhou dynasty scholar robes. A bit weird that Legge is translating it to blue though -- the color should be black. (The word used now means blue/green usually, so it seems a mistranslation.)

Baidu says historically scholars thought it dealt with a school that was disbanded and the scholars dispersed. And/or a poem about depravity (? I'm not quite sure of this). But modern scholars think this is a love song.