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

[x_los]

* 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.

* I recently wrote about the China History Podcast, which has a whole series on Tang Poetry, and might well be of general interest.

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Comments

Re: 179. 車攻 - Che Gong

[x_los]

'an occasional or a general audience.' what's this about?

And what does the line about the great kitchen signify?

Re: 179. 車攻 - Che Gong

[superborb]

Baike says this is about the same king as the two previous poems, Zhou Xuan wang, hunting with his feudal vassals/princes in the eastern city (? not sure if this is a particular city or what)

'like the crowd of an occasional or a general audience': [the second part of the phrase:] a meeting of the feudal vassals/princes, a specific name for the feudal princes to have an audience with the emperor. Here, refers to the feudal princes participating in the emperor's hunt. [the first part of the phrase:] continuously, an unceasing and orderly appearance
'The great kitchen': the emperor's kitchen

Re: 179. 車攻 - Che Gong

[x_los]

'Did not claim it's full compliment' remains kind of mysterious, alas

Re: 179. 車攻 - Che Gong

[superborb]

So the original phrase means "the emperor's kitchen" "not" "filled/surplus", but the Baike vernacular translation says 猎毕厨房野味盈 after hunting, the kitchen was filled with game. It says about the seventh stanza as a whole that it describes after the hunt, the successful and fruitful achievements and relaxing of tension.

I don't think I understand what the "not" is supposed to do here; maybe it is some poetic or archaic form?

Re: 179. 車攻 - Che Gong

[x_los]

ooookay so like. the kitchen is fully stocked. rather than what it looks like: the kitchen goes under-provisioned. That is NOT an intuitive one.