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

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* 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.

Until someone knows what to do there, I'll send out manual messages weekly. If you'd like to receive these and are not getting them, please let me know.

* 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.

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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.

* In case you missed it and are interested, some people on the com are doing a Nirvana in Fire read-along here. Anyone with thoughts is welcome to chime in. 

**NEXT BATCH MARCH 15.**

Comments

Re: 曹風 - Odes Of Cao; 150. 蜉蝣 - Fu You

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Baike:

'robe of hemp': daily clothing for the social class of feudal princes and officials . The snow part is bc it's white

Mao's commentary says it's a satire of Cao Zhao gong, and most people agree. The mayfly might also indicate the many lakes of Cao country or how it is a weak country.

Baike spends a LOT of characters describing the ~shortness and beauty~ of the mayfly's life. Also, apparently they will swarm at sunset and form thick layers of their dead bodies, thus an emotional scene.