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x_los ([personal profile] x_los) wrote in [community profile] dankodes2021-03-29 01:38 am

Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Minor Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Baihua

I know this is a short week and that doing it on its own will not speed us through the Minor Odes, but given that the poems are longer in this section, Baihua's five felt too bulky to tack on to either side (to make one of those batches a kind of awkward 14-15 medium sized poems).

* 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.

**NEXT BATCH APRIL 5.**
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Re: 170. 魚麗 - Yu Li

[personal profile] superborb 2021-04-04 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, all baike has is like, wow look at all the kinds of fish! Wine is a symbol of a good harvest! We no longer know how it was sung, but the staggered sentence pattern makes it easier to sing!

But like, this just seems very one note, a fun song to sing at a party kind of deal?