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dankodesThis is the last book in Lessons from the States! After this, we get into some fairly different material:
Minor odes of the kingdom (about 7 weeks)
Greater odes of the kingdom (3 weeks)
Odes of the temple and the altar (4 weeks)
And then we'll be talking about what we want to do next. But seriously, working through all the Lessons from the States is itself a milestone: one building-block of your Classical Education achieved.
* 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.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* 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 22.**
Minor odes of the kingdom (about 7 weeks)
Greater odes of the kingdom (3 weeks)
Odes of the temple and the altar (4 weeks)
And then we'll be talking about what we want to do next. But seriously, working through all the Lessons from the States is itself a milestone: one building-block of your Classical Education achieved.
* 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.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* 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 22.**
Re: 154. 七月 - Qi Yue
That young lady's heart is wounded with sadness,For she will [soon] be going with one of our princes as his wife. eesh
So this one feels like a ritual calendar song, to me: setting out right behaviour for the agricultural and spiritual year. It also feels like the manifesto/biography of a specific place.
The boars of one year are for themselves;Those of three years are for our prince. this is the type of annual taxation system discussed at length in the Talmud, for tithing and thus the support of priestly-clerical classes.
In the tenth, they reap the rice; so are we in the South?
For the benefit of the bushy eyebrows. huh?
Why is the chronology not straight forward?
rhinoceros horn, homie where did you GET that?
They already have ice houses?!
Re: 154. 七月 - Qi Yue
Odes of Bin -- Bin is an ancient city name in present day Shaanxi, Xunyi + Bin county region. (So to your later question, it's northwestern China. Shaanxi cuisine tends to noodles, but I think it's also a rice growing region? Just less?)
"bushy eyebrows": longevity; old people have luxurious eyebrows
"rhinocerous horn": the gloss is just that it's an ancient drinking vessel made of animal horn, so this may be Legge editorializing
Legge should keep the sound effects. "chong chong" for the sound of ice being chiseled!