"Fetid tree": Ailanthus altissima / tree of heaven [a very stinky tree]. An untalented tree, a metaphor for trusting the wrong person "Sheep's foot": A perennial herbaceous plant, known as sheep's hoof vegetable, similar to radish, kind of slippery in texture, eating too much gives you diarrhea "Pokeweed": A perennial climbing plant, has flowers, white roots, can be steamed and eaten, so in a year of famine used as food.
The "men superior to woman" tradition in ancient China creates this prominent motif of abandoned women literature. Baike discusses some of the historical interpretations that are all about politics...
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Re: 188. 我行其野 - Wo Xing Qi Ye
Date: 2021-04-19 12:00 am (UTC)"Fetid tree": Ailanthus altissima / tree of heaven [a very stinky tree]. An untalented tree, a metaphor for trusting the wrong person
"Sheep's foot": A perennial herbaceous plant, known as sheep's hoof vegetable, similar to radish, kind of slippery in texture, eating too much gives you diarrhea
"Pokeweed": A perennial climbing plant, has flowers, white roots, can be steamed and eaten, so in a year of famine used as food.
The "men superior to woman" tradition in ancient China creates this prominent motif of abandoned women literature. Baike discusses some of the historical interpretations that are all about politics...