Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Minor Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Sang Hu

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Comments

Re: 217. 頍弁 - Kui Bian

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Baike says that the mistletoe and the dodder is considered a classic metaphor. The dodder is also a climbing plant. The host is the pine and cypress and the guests the parasitic plants. I think the parasitism is definitely meant to be read here.

All baike says about the leather caps is that they had an angular appearance, made of white deer leather, with a dome-like appearance. (Unsure how it is both angular and dome-like?)

Baike seems to think the graupel (not really sleet) is meant ominously, like, they don't know when they're going to die.

But yeah, Baike thinks pessimism, social unrest, the future is unknown type thing.