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

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 * 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.

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Comments

Re: 196. 小宛 - Xiao Wan

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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.