Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Minor Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Qi Fu

[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.

* One of our members is doing posts on the foundations and development of wuxia. Worth checking out!

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Comments

Re: 187. 黃鳥 - Huang Niao

[superborb]

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"

Re: 187. 黃鳥 - Huang Niao

[x_los]

Isn't this the second fucking one called yellow bird.