Baike: Qin Mu gong (Duke Mu of Qin, named Renhao) got his ministers drunk and said "we monarch and ministers, in life are happy together, in death also grieve together". The three ministers agreed to follow him in death. When Qin Mu gong died, no less 177 people were buried with him, including the three ministers (who were brothers). As the ministers were considered virtuous people of the Qin dynasty, the people mourned and wrote this poem.
There's puns about the jujubes being homophones with urgent/worried, mulberry with mourning, and the thorn trees (chaste berry trees) with anguish/suffering
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Re: 131. 黃鳥 - Huang Niao
Date: 2021-02-28 06:18 pm (UTC)There's puns about the jujubes being homophones with urgent/worried, mulberry with mourning, and the thorn trees (chaste berry trees) with anguish/suffering