Thursday 21 April 2011

fish of the day

From "Book of Odes"

(translated by James Legge, 1898)


豈其食魚、必河之魴。
豈其取妻、必齊之姜。

Why, in eating fish;
Must we have bream from the He?
Why, in taking a wife,
Must we have a Jiang of Qi?
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