Baike: In the first stanza, the person herding the sheep is a slave and thus does not own the large number of cattle/sheep he is herding [Baike calls the herdsman a slave, I'm not sure where that comes from?]
"victims": sacrificial animals "abundant provision": prepare [tools]. I am really not sure where Legge gets that line from lol
"With their large faggots, and smaller branches,": 'with' is 'take', 'large faggots' is 'coarse firewood', 'smaller branches' is 'thin firewood'
"And with their prey of birds and beasts.": this is literally 'male and female', which baike glosses with "flying is called male/female", meaning hunting birds
"Vigorous and strong,": very carefully and prudent in appearance, indicating the sheep are afraid of separating from their flock
"Of multitudes": locusts. Ancient people believed locusts turned to fish. During droughts they'd become locusts and in favorable weather, fishes
The tortoise-and-serpent flags are for the outskirts with few people; the falcon flags for provinces with many people
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Re: 190. 無羊 - Wu Yang
Date: 2021-04-19 12:57 am (UTC)"victims": sacrificial animals
"abundant provision": prepare [tools]. I am really not sure where Legge gets that line from lol
"With their large faggots, and smaller branches,": 'with' is 'take', 'large faggots' is 'coarse firewood', 'smaller branches' is 'thin firewood'
"And with their prey of birds and beasts.": this is literally 'male and female', which baike glosses with "flying is called male/female", meaning hunting birds
"Vigorous and strong,": very carefully and prudent in appearance, indicating the sheep are afraid of separating from their flock
"Of multitudes": locusts. Ancient people believed locusts turned to fish. During droughts they'd become locusts and in favorable weather, fishes
The tortoise-and-serpent flags are for the outskirts with few people; the falcon flags for provinces with many people