Baike: the host is trying the keep the guests in his home for the first three stanzas, and the last is him being like, sad they're gone and wanting them to keep in touch.
So predictably, Mao's commentary thinks this is to satirize how Zhou Xuan wang couldn't keep the sages in his court.
The couplet (sentence?), according to baike, is the host being like, don't go live in seclusion. Because it was troubled times, and the guest didn't want to work for the court or to disobey, so the only solution was to go into seclusion.
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Re: 186. 白駒 - Bai Ju
Date: 2021-04-18 07:47 pm (UTC)So predictably, Mao's commentary thinks this is to satirize how Zhou Xuan wang couldn't keep the sages in his court.
The couplet (sentence?), according to baike, is the host being like, don't go live in seclusion. Because it was troubled times, and the guest didn't want to work for the court or to disobey, so the only solution was to go into seclusion.