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Book of Odes · Mao witness · 國風周南第一

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READING NOTE · r136Structure / Predication

詩者、志之所之也。在心為志，發言為詩。

Poetry is where intention goes: held in the heart it is intention; expressed in speech it is poetry.

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關雎Received interpretive preface

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Argument contrastA theory of music beside the received preface

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論語 · Separate the topic from the comment夫子至於是邦也論語 · Distinguish doing, being, and acting for禮之用，和為貴論語 · Distinguish doing, being, and acting for為政以德論語 · Focus on what an action concerns七十而從心所欲，不踰矩
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詩經 · Book of Odes · Mao witness
Attribution
Anonymous poems transmitted in the Mao tradition, with received prefaces and ancillary prose; individual attribution is uncertain.
Digital witness
Kanseki Repository · KR1c0001 · base edition tls
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Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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KR1c0001_001.txt, lines 14–116.
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