Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Lessons from the States, Odes Of Gui and Odes of Cao

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* 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.

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檜風 - Odes Of Gui; 149. 匪風 - Fei Feng

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匪風發兮、匪車偈兮、顧瞻周道、中心怛兮。

Not for the violence of the wind;
Not for a rushing motion of a chariot; -
But when I look to the road to Zhou,
Am I pained to the core of my heart.

匪風飄兮、匪車嘌兮。
顧瞻周道、中心弔兮。

Not for the whirlwind;
Not for the irregular motion of a chariot; -
But when I look to the road to Zhou,
Am I sad to the core of my heart.

誰能亨魚、溉之釜鬵。
誰將西歸、懷之好音。

Who can cook fish?
I will wash his boilers for him.
Who will loyally go to the west?
I will cheer him with good words.

Re: 檜風 - Odes Of Gui; 149. 匪風 - Fei Feng

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gonna need some help with this one

Re: 檜風 - Odes Of Gui; 149. 匪風 - Fei Feng

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Baike: Modern scholars think this is a poem written by a homesick traveler (either away for travel or as a forced laborer). The author's home is in the West but he's in the East. It expresses the inner feelings of people during the period of dynasty collapse and social turmoil.

'washing with boilers': Wen Yiduo thought this might be homonymous with begging. (Though the main gloss is washing) The boilers bit is a big cauldron / pot.

'good words': news of peace

The fish might be symbolic of returning to the ancestral political era and ways, related to Laozi's "ruling a country is like cooking small dishes"