If you missed it yesterday, I posted a review of The Book of Odes, one of the Five Classics in Confucianism:https://wp.me/p1FRmK-MV
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a few do address political subjects, but in roughly the style of either blues or patriotic music.Think FS Key more than Dante.
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most of the rest were pretty clearly intended as love songs; the Confucians apparently treated them allegorically, >>
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>> like theologians do the Song of Solomon, but I doubt they were intended as such. That excludes explicitly ritualistic Odes.
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I wonder whether it wasn't at the lvl of Harry Potter; ppl in the Zhou knew the Odes so well they used them as reference pts
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my understanding is that they were used that way, at least by the literate classes >>
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>> similar to how Westerners used Scripture and the Classics until recently (or HP and Star Wars now, unfortunately).
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how well known the Odes were among commoners, esp. long after their composition, is an interesting question.
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