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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.
* 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 29.**
166. 天保 - Tian Bao
俾爾單厚、何福不除。
俾爾多益、以莫不庶。
Heaven protects and establishes thee,
With the greatest securtiy;
Makes thee entirely virtuous,
That thou mayest enjoy every happiness;
Grants thee much increase,
So that thou hast all in abundance.
天保定爾、俾爾戩穀。
罄無不宜、受天百祿。
降爾遐福、維日不足。
Heaven protects and establishes thee,
It grants thee all excellence,
So that thine every matter is right,
And thou receivest every heavenly favour.
It sends down to thee long-during happiness,
Which the days are not sufficient to enjoy.
天保定爾、以莫不興。
如山如阜、如岡如陵。
如川之方至、以莫不增。
Heaven protects and establishes thee,
So that in every thing thou dost prosper,
Like the high hills, and the mountain masses,
Like the topmost ridges, and the greatest bulks;
That, as the stream ever coming on,
Such is thine increase.
吉蠲為饎、是用孝享。
禴祠烝嘗、于公先王。
君曰卜爾、萬壽無疆。
With happy auspices and purifications, thou bringest the offerings,
And dost filially present them;
In spring, summer, autumn, and winter,
To the dukes and former kings,
Who says, ' We give to thee,
Myriad of years of duration unlimited. '
神之弔矣、詒爾多福。
民之質矣、日用飲食。
群黍百姓、徧為爾德。
The spirits come,
And confer on thee many blessings.
The people are simple and honest,
Daily enjoying their meat and drink.
All the black-haired race, in all their surnames,
Universally practise your virtue.
如月之恒、如日之升。
如南山之壽、不騫不崩。
如松柏之茂、無不爾或承。
Like the moon advancing to the full,
Like the sun ascending the heavens,
Like the age of the southern hills,
Never waning, never falling,
Like the luxuriance of the fir and the cypress; -
May such be thy succeeding line!
Re: 166. 天保 - Tian Bao
"All the black-haired race, in all their surnames,
Universally practise your virtue." this is odd as it suggests an extra-racial comparison point, and also collapses this tale of individual piety into 'absolutely everyone does this'.
Re: 166. 天保 - Tian Bao
Re: 166. 天保 - Tian Bao
'Black-haired race, in all their surnames': Baike simply glosses the first two characters as the masses, the working people, and the second pair as the aristocracy, the 100 surnames of the officials. I think Legge gets black haired from the second character, which is a literary word to mean black, but also means multitude.
Re: 166. 天保 - Tian Bao