"Well loaded with millet were the dishes, And long and curved were spoons of thorn-wood. The way to Zhou was like a whetstone, And straight as an arrow."
what's this xing doing, and then the following couplet?
"The sons of the poorest families, Form the officers in public employment." ?
"If we present them with spirits, They do not look on them as liquor. If we give them long girdle-pendants with their stones, They do not think them long enough. There is the milky way in heaven, Which looks down on us in light; And the three stars together are the Weaving Sisters, Passing in a day through seven stages [of the sky]." ??
Stars in constellations don't do the work of the figures they represent and the poet is salty about it
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Re: 203. 大东 - Da Dong
Date: 2021-04-20 03:47 am (UTC)And long and curved were spoons of thorn-wood.
The way to Zhou was like a whetstone,
And straight as an arrow."
what's this xing doing, and then the following couplet?
"The sons of the poorest families,
Form the officers in public employment." ?
"If we present them with spirits,
They do not look on them as liquor.
If we give them long girdle-pendants with their stones,
They do not think them long enough.
There is the milky way in heaven,
Which looks down on us in light;
And the three stars together are the Weaving Sisters,
Passing in a day through seven stages [of the sky]." ??
Stars in constellations don't do the work of the figures they represent and the poet is salty about it
What's the last stanza doing?