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

[x_los]

* I know the two titular Weis are confusing; I believe they're different characters both rendered thus in Pinyin.

* I found the best option for the weekly reminder emails, via Gmail. The external service options are more involved than our purposes require. Does anyone know anything about how to arrange an Apps Script? Basically all it has to do is tell ten people, on Saturdays, to come and get their juice/poems. 

* 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.

* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.

* 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.

Comments

Re: 111. 十畝之閒 - Shi Mu Zhi Jian

[x_los]

Why do the worms need nice leaves as opposed to any old shit? Like--do the worms care?

Everything about the farming is super interesting, I would NOT have thought about what the farm was /for/ and how it worked!

Re: 111. 十畝之閒 - Shi Mu Zhi Jian

[llonkrebboj]

HAHAHHA i vaguely remember watching a documentary about like silk making as a child, and they said that the silkworms take their nutrition and water only from the leaves they eat xD that they don't eat any other sort of leaves. so if you want healthy & happy worms to make nice silk cocoons, you'd have to satisfy their needs and keep them well fed with the best food! (and what good reason to take your time picking the leaves eh?)