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: 110. 陟岵 - Zhi Hu

[llonkrebboj]

oh by the way!!!! there's an idiom which is a reference to this shijing poem: 陟岵陟屺 zhì hù zhì qǐ, which means 'climbing verdant mountains, climbing barren mountains' which is used for people who have lingered long out in the world and are missing their parents.

found it while googling something else and thought it might be interesting to share!

- actually wouldn't it be fun to find out more chengyu that originate from shijing?

Re: 110. 陟岵 - Zhi Hu

[x_los]

Yeah I'd be SUPER interested in any pertinent chengyu!