Baike: Refugees (exiles?) yearning to return home. The society was in disarray in the final years of Zhou Xuan wang. The yellow bird (Eurasian siskin) is a metaphor for the exploiting class who don't work but eat.
vvv weird for Legge to translate sorghum to maize?? Baike gives the additional gloss of "a kind of millet/grain. One source says refined rice"
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Re: 187. 黃鳥 - Huang Niao
Date: 2021-04-18 11:19 pm (UTC)vvv weird for Legge to translate sorghum to maize?? Baike gives the additional gloss of "a kind of millet/grain. One source says refined rice"