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x_los ([personal profile] x_los) wrote in [community profile] dankodes2021-02-01 01:03 am

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

 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.

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Re: 96. 雞鳴 - Ji Ming

[personal profile] superborb 2021-02-06 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Baike says a bunch of stuff that is presented as discord, but I think all basically is just praising how virtuous the concubine is, with a question about if it's straightforward praise or backhandedly insulting someone?

There's controversy over which lines are attributed to the woman or man. Is it all the woman, with the poet intervening to provide context; the first two lines for stanzas 1 and 2 are the woman and the last stanza is all the woman, with the rest the man; or first two lines of stanzas 1 and 2 and last two lines of stanza 3 are the woman and the rest is the man?

There's a lot of internal rhyme in this poem too