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<< review queue entry 60158 - submitted by 'monigeria' >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiu_Zhang 5 Embracing Sand Huai Sha 懷沙 怀沙 https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/selections/qu-yuan/ QU YUAN (c. 340-278 B.C.) Embracing Sand “Embracing Sand” was Qu Yuan’s suicide note: he is said to have written the poem and then clasped a large stone to his bosom to drown himself in the Miluo River. and Sid Meier's Civilization, if that's not enough for you: http://civ6.gamepedia.com/Qu_Yuan It was during his exile that Qu Yuan wrote his most famous pieces: 'Li Sao' (The Lament), 'Tian Wen' (Asking Questions of Heaven), 'Jiu Ge' (Nine Songs), and 'Huai Sha' (Embracing the Sand). Upon hearing that Chu had been absorbed by the Qin, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (an auspicious date) the distraught Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River after tying himself to a boulder. ------------------------------------- Editor: Titles of poems, movies, books and so on — that's a big area that we haven't been attempting to get into, and I don't think we should. We don't have the resources to be encyclopedic. Matic and I just *deleted* a poem title a few weeks ago: https://cc-cedict.org/editor/editor.php?log_id=63656&return=ListChanges&handler=ViewLogEntry See also the editor's comment here: https://cc-cedict.org/editor/editor.php?log_id=63801&return=ListChanges&handler=ViewLogEntry |
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# 懷沙 怀沙 [Huai2 sha1] /"Embracing Sand" (Qu Yuan's 屈原 final work)/ |