Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Greater Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Wen Wang

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* 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. 

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Comments

Re: 244. 文王有聲 - Wen Wang You Sheng

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Baike's vernacular translates the people of the four quarters to feudal vassals interestingly. I have a suspicion that the four quarters just means 'all directions' instead of literally four directions.

So Baike says this term for the hall is the name of the palace of the Western Zhou, which I think Legge is just taking liberty in translation with??

The white millet is glossed as Chinese wolfberry shrub / willow, some say water celery. (I think it is meant to be a willow?) Fengshui means abundant water, so I think just a plentiful image?