Chinese poem illustration: 鄘风 墙有茨/Yong Wind – Reeds on Wall
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This poem is a satire to the harem of Wei state(卫国), where happened to have an extremly weird marriage, while it turned out to be the root of a renaissance of the Wei state(卫国) a few decades later.
Besides the background story and simple poem, the characters 烝，埽，襄，冓 and 读 are further analyzed
鄘风 墙有茨
佚名
墙有茨，不可埽也。
中冓之言，不可道也。
所可道也，言之丑也。
墙有茨，不可襄也。
中冓之言，不可详也。
所可详也，言之长也。
墙有茨，不可束也。
中冓之言，不可读也。
所可读也，言之辱也。
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