The Book of SongsArthur Waley First published in 1937. |
Contents
Priface to the First Edition | 12 |
Introduction | 13 |
Courtship | 20 |
Marriage | 66 |
Warriors and Battles | 110 |
Agriculture | 158 |
Blessings on Gentle Folk | 173 |
Welcome | 188 |
Dynastic Legends | 239 |
Building | 281 |
Hunting | 285 |
Friendship | 291 |
Moral
Pieces | 293 |
Lamentations | 304 |
Additional
notes | 327 |
Appendices | 335 |
Feasting | 198 |
The Clan Feast | 203 |
Sacrifice | 209 |
Music and
Dancing | 218 |
Dynastic Songs | 226 |
Notes on
Books | 348 |
350 | |
356 | |
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Common terms and phrases
ancestors ballads bird blessings boxthorn bride bright bring brothers business never ends capital capping songs Ch’i Ch’u chariots China Ching Confucian Confucius courtship dance descendant drink drums Duke of Chou early Chinese east egret father feast fields find fine first fish flight flowers flying four steeds gentlemen girl give glorious grandsons happy heart Heaven heigh-ho horses Hsien-yiin Hsii Huai jade King Wen King Wu lady land Lord of Shao lucky guest marriage married matrilocal means millet month mother Mount Liang night northern Honan offering oriole plucking poem princes R. C. Trevelyan rain River sacrifice seen my lord Shantung Shén Shensi Shih Son of Heaven song southern hills southernwood spread Sung tall Thick grows tribes verse wild wine wings word yellow yellow orioles Yellow River