Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Minor Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Bei Shan

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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. 

* Remember you can also look at How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context.

* 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.

**NEXT BATCH MAY 3.**

Comments

Re: 213. 瞻彼洛矣 - Zhan Bi Luo Yi

[superborb]

For danmei purposes, yes, the Luo is the Luo of Luo Binghe.

Baike says this poem is written in the Fu style, but still has metaphors.

Anyway, in historical times there were two Luoshui rivers, one originating in northwest Shaanxi and flowing into the Wei river, and one in the south of Shaanxi that flowed into the Yellow River. Zhu Xi (Song dynasty era, founder of neo-Confucianism) thinks this was the latter.

Baike says definitively that this was written during the reign of Zhou Xuan wang, but then the specific sources say Zhou You wang, so I'm confused.

Re: 213. 瞻彼洛矣 - Zhan Bi Luo Yi

[x_los]

I did look that up already, like the cheap trick I am.