It is so interesting to me that we get a lot of positive imagery with cuckoos? (Baike glosses the turtle dove as a cuckoo) https://www.jstor.org/stable/604785?seq=1 seems to discuss the relevance of the cuckoo in the Shijing, but I can't access it.
Baike: It's seven children bc that's what was said about cuckoos. Cuckoos are signs of spring and unselfishly and unbiasedly feed many small birds.
The two diametrically opposed opinions on if it's satire or praise.
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Re: 曹風 - Odes Of Cao; 152. 鳲鳩 - Shi Jiu
Date: 2021-03-14 06:36 pm (UTC)Baike:
It's seven children bc that's what was said about cuckoos.
Cuckoos are signs of spring and unselfishly and unbiasedly feed many small birds.
The two diametrically opposed opinions on if it's satire or praise.