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x_los ([personal profile] x_los) wrote in [community profile] dankodes 2021-05-03 05:31 am (UTC)

Re: 220. 賓之初筵 - Bin Zhi Chu Yan

"and kernels displayed in them" like, ritual grain bits?

Ancient Greece used to have ritual funeral games. Maybe this is a kind of similar practice, and an archery competition persists as a good Thing to Do to open a formal ceremony or banquet. Maybe the CQL conference-opening archery competition is partaking in the long comet tail of the aesthetics or habitude of this.

every other shi jing poem is like, o do not be the asshole/who gets wasted at someone's gran's funeral!/hearken unto me, and do not be That Guy

'some people just have a drink
and it's chill
but if you get plastered on ritual rice wine
just absolutely fuck you
seriously' (but every line is groupings of 4 characters)

Last stanza a bit confusing.

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