Baike: "tombs": baike's gloss says tombs, but one source says Chen country's city gates [lol]
"plum trees": one source said this was once "thorn" but there was a mis-copy bc the characters look similar
"owl": to the ancients, owls were evil birds
According to Mao's commentary, this was written about Chen Tuo, son of Chen Wen gong during the Spring and Autumn period. (This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Tuo) However, during the Song dynasty, this interpretation became challenged.
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Re: 141. 墓門 - Mu Men
Date: 2021-03-07 08:20 pm (UTC)"plum trees": one source said this was once "thorn" but there was a mis-copy bc the characters look similar
"owl": to the ancients, owls were evil birds
According to Mao's commentary, this was written about Chen Tuo, son of Chen Wen gong during the Spring and Autumn period. (This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Tuo) However, during the Song dynasty, this interpretation became challenged.