Baike informs me that Mao's commentary says this is satirizing Zhou You wang, a later source says it is satirizing Zhou Li wang. In the overall section though, Baike says it's not satirizing the kings at all, but reflecting the chaos of the society at the time.
pulse: soybeans, here indicating the leaves of the plant mulberry insect: pyralid moths sphex: a black wasp with a slender waist, which catches pyralid moths to feed to their larva. Ancient people mistakenly believed they were rearing the moths wagtail: the name of a bird. looks like a chicken, eats insects by the water greenbeak: the name of a bird. looks like a small pigeon. Blue-green color, patterned neck.
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Re: 196. 小宛 - Xiao Wan
Date: 2021-04-26 01:18 am (UTC)pulse: soybeans, here indicating the leaves of the plant
mulberry insect: pyralid moths
sphex: a black wasp with a slender waist, which catches pyralid moths to feed to their larva. Ancient people mistakenly believed they were rearing the moths
wagtail: the name of a bird. looks like a chicken, eats insects by the water
greenbeak: the name of a bird. looks like a small pigeon. Blue-green color, patterned neck.