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Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Minor Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Du Ren Shi
* 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 17.**
This is the last chapter in the Minor Odes! After this we move to the Greater Odes (three weeks) and the Odes of the Temple and the Altar (four weeks). Then, a whole new set of 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 17.**
This is the last chapter in the Minor Odes! After this we move to the Greater Odes (three weeks) and the Odes of the Temple and the Altar (four weeks). Then, a whole new set of poems!
Re: 225. 都人士 - Du Ren Shi
With their hats of Tai leaves and small black caps! so what are these?
Each fit to be called a Yin or a Ji! ?
The girdles were naturally long.
Not that they gave their hair that curve; -
The hair had a natural curl. so we're talking about the irreplaceability of things that are natural rather than constructed, sure, but do these qualities/the faking of them have more weight than that?
Re: 225. 都人士 - Du Ren Shi
Hats of Tai leaves are rain hats made of the coco-grass or nut sedge. The small black caps are small caps (to bind the hair?).
Some say that Yin and Ji were the two noble surnames at that time. [I previously translated the "some say" as "one source" but I think "some say" is more accurate since it's not like they're citing anything...]
I think it's more just nostalgia for the past and using the aesthetics as a metaphor for the culture of that time?
Re: 225. 都人士 - Du Ren Shi