#ChineseLiterature#ChinesePoetry folk, has anyone got a recommendation for books/articles about the #Shijing? I’m back reading the Waley translation and greatly enjoying it, but I’d love some more context, both on the history and on the commentaries that have informed the translation choices.
@villainousfriend I don’t know much about it other than it’s a collection of poems from the Western Zhou Dynasty and that it’s held in high esteem by Confucianists who idealized the western zhou period. Confucius praised Shijing for 思無邪, meaning that it’s pure, sincere, and unclouded by pretentiousness.
Is it just me, or does anyone else see these decorative panels and just assume they're Ye Olde Radiator Covers? This is the umpteenth time I've caught myself and had to go, no, the Jin might have been ahead of their time with some interior décor choices, but probable not that one.
@geraineon It makes a lot of sense to me too! She talked about more ways for balancing a meal than I’d thought of before—I’ll definitely think about it more in future. :)
@villainousfriend Haha, yeah. The medicinal bit too (e.g., fried things are "heaty", so balance with cool things, if feeling under the weather, then less spiced things and more "ching" [clear?] food)... I don't do all of these but I do enjoy a variety of taste and texture in my meals.
@villainousfriend I wish I had better news, when I first wrote my novel mesh, I made sure that the protagonist was wheelchair bound and getting his legs fixed with a cybernetic robotic leg system was part of the plot. I got such a bad feedback on that, so many accusations of being insensitive, that I took it out.
You Huo, his uncle and his cousin are transported into a mysterious 'examination' system, where the questions could easily kill any of the examinees. Breaking the rules to test the system, You Huo gets under the skin of Invigilator 001, but the two can't get away from each other.
I find it very cute that in Mandarin, fondue is called cheese hotpot, and here in Switzerland we have a hotpot analogue that’s called fondue Chinoise. We put it in a pot!
Who was it who was talking recently about giving and accepting things with both hands? I just read this passage in #APastUnearthed that mentions it.
I wonder if “in a way that showed total appreciation and gratitude” was added by the translator, to make explicit what would be obvious in the original Chinese?
(I’m planning to keep watching the show, but I’m happier going in with my eyes open about this stuff—and I would recommend this essay even if you’re uninterested in MLC.)
#MLCWatchParty I watched the first 1.5 episodes on the train on Thursday night and really enjoyed them. Love an epic battle on a ship! I feel like there are more ship battles in wuxia than we usually talk about. 🤔
Boys will say “reinforcements are coming” and then their dog will show up with a wholeass martial escort agency, a public prosecutor, and one of the heads of the justice bureau you keep pretending to be a member of. Awkward.
One bride wearing a wedding dress of mysterious provenance and then dying: unfortunate.
A second bride wearing a mysterious wedding dress that someone died wearing: bad judgement, or a fierce commitment to an ahistorical materialist worldview?
A third bride wearing a mysterious wedding dress that two previous brides have died wearing: it must have pockets.
@villainousfriend I did play around with several different possible orders of characters to see if it would help, and that order gives, like, the very vague sense that maybe the cover designer did in fact briefly glance at the characters once before doing their own thing, which is in fact an improvement on other orders, but doesn't actually make it better, lol!