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

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 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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Comments

Re: 98. 著 - Zhu

[superborb]

Baike says 充耳：又叫“塞耳”，饰物，悬在冠之两侧。《毛传》：“充耳谓之瑱。”古代男子冠帽两侧各系一条丝带，在耳边打个圆结，圆结中穿上一块玉饰，丝带称紞，饰玉称瑱，因紞上圆结与瑱正好塞着两耳，故称“充耳” chong er: also called sai er, decoration/jewelry, hung on both sides of the guan (crown/cap). [source] chong er refers to tian. ancient men had hats where both sides were connected to a ribbon. right at ear level is a round knot, in the middle of which is threaded a jade ornament. the ribbon is called dan, the piece of jade is called tian. because the round knot and the jade is just right to plug the ears, it's called chong er (ear plug)

Re: 98. 著 - Zhu

[forestofglory]

That's very helpful, thank you!