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

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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.

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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: 220. 賓之初筵 - Bin Zhi Chu Yan

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Baike:

The archery targets are made of tiger, bear, AND leopard skins. Ordinary targets would have just been made of cloth.

The historical commentary mostly says it was written by Wei Wu gong who had to host these banquets and regretted it, but didn't dare admonish Zhou You wang.

Re: 220. 賓之初筵 - Bin Zhi Chu Yan

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"The historical commentary mostly says it was written by Wei Wu gong who had to host these banquets and regretted it, but didn't dare admonish Zhou You wang." the bitchy subtweet genre of shi jing odes