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dankodes * 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 10.**
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 10.**
216. 鴛鴦 - Yuan Yang
君子萬年、福祿宜之。
The Yellow ducks fly about,
And are taken with hand-nets and spread-nets.
May our sovereign live for ten thousand years,
Enjoying the happiness and wealth which are his due!
鴛鴦在梁、戢其左翼。
君子萬年、宜其遐福。
The Yellow ducks are on the dam,
With their left wings gathered up.
May our sovereign live for ten thousand years,
Enjoying the happiness and wealth which are his due!
乘馬在廄、摧之秣之。
君子萬年、福祿艾之。
The teams of steeds are in the stable,
Fed with forage and grain.
May our sovereign live for ten thousand years,
Sustained in his happiness and wealth!
乘馬在廄、秣之摧之。
君子萬年、福祿綏之。
The teams of steeds are in the stable,
Fed with grain and forage.
May our sovereign live for ten thousand years,
In the comfort of his happiness and wealth!
Re: 216. 鴛鴦 - Yuan Yang
Re: 216. 鴛鴦 - Yuan Yang
The left wings gathered up bit is bc when the ducks perch/rest, they stick their beaks under their left wings.
These ducks, if you didn't know, are a major symbol for an affectionate couple in China; Baike notes that ancient people called them "mated/paired birds".
Lots of potential interpretations; as always Mao's commentary says it's a satirization of the king of Zhou. Other interpretations include celebrating a new marriage, or a response by the feudal princes to 215 (i.e. 215 was written by the emperor to the feudal princes). Baike's interpretation section reads the poem as a celebration of marriage.