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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.
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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.
**NEXT BATCH MAY 24.**
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 24.**
Re: 237. 緜 - Mian
"the gate of the enceinte;" nounARCHAIC
an enclosure or the enclosing wall of a fortified place.
"The oaks and the Yu were [gradually] thinned," Yu as in--that tribe? like they're killing them off like oaks when bringing land under cultivation? No, 238 and 239 make it clear this is a different yu, some kind of plant.
Okay so why was this guy roaming and trying to settle somewhere initially, how did they get displaced?
Re: 237. 緜 - Mian
Baike:
Oaks and Yu -- both plants are kinds of oaks, shrubs that grow as a thicket. IDK why Legge chooses to translate Yu this way when it makes the last stanza, that is about the ancient country of Yu, seem like it's the same word, but it's not.
Apparently there are five famous migrations of the Zhou people, in pursuit of fertile land. In this case, the Baike describes that they were invaded by the Kunyi nomadic people, so they had to migrate from Bin (county in Shaanxi) to Qishan (also in Shaanxi)