Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Minor Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Xiao Min

[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.

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* 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.

**NEXT BATCH APRIL 26.**

Comments

Re: 200. 巷伯 - Xiang Bo

[x_los]

"A few elegant lines,
May be made out to be shell-embroidery." is this about misconstruing false prophecies?

"A few diverging points,
May be made out to be the southern Sieve." so is this saying, there are a few sets of stars in the sky you can say are the Chinese equivalent of the drinking gourd/little dipper? is this also about divination?

"If the north refused to receive them," what's so scary about the North?

Another ANNOUNCEMENT of authorship

Re: 200. 巷伯 - Xiang Bo

[superborb]

This set of poems is all about SLANDER it seems.

Baike says the shell embroidery is making a point about how rumors are effective because they're covered with a pretty outside.

The southern sieve is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnowing_Basket_(Chinese_constellation). The Baike vernacular translation makes it seem like, 'your mouth is so big, it's like the winnowing basket'

The North is bitter cold.