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lnhammerWalking, he seems a shifting pin-cushion,
At rest, he’s curled like a chestnut-burr—
He can’t be bullied like us big folks:
Who dares to casually punch the guy?
咏刺猬
行似针毡动，
卧若栗球圆。
莫欺如此大，
谁敢便行拳。
From CTP book 870, part of a run of 4 books of 諧謔, jokes and banter—the comic poems, in other words. Do I want to dive into this? Yes—yes, I do. Duh! Found via this post of Kenneth Rexroth’s translation. The author is credited with both surnames in different texts, and scholars have suggested that one or the other was a penname, without consensus as to which. Biographical data is slim, as you can imagine, and he’s included in both Tang and Song collections, which overlap during the mid/late 900s.
(TIL hedgehogs are native to China.)
---L.
At rest, he’s curled like a chestnut-burr—
He can’t be bullied like us big folks:
Who dares to casually punch the guy?
咏刺猬
行似针毡动，
卧若栗球圆。
莫欺如此大，
谁敢便行拳。
From CTP book 870, part of a run of 4 books of 諧謔, jokes and banter—the comic poems, in other words. Do I want to dive into this? Yes—yes, I do. Duh! Found via this post of Kenneth Rexroth’s translation. The author is credited with both surnames in different texts, and scholars have suggested that one or the other was a penname, without consensus as to which. Biographical data is slim, as you can imagine, and he’s included in both Tang and Song collections, which overlap during the mid/late 900s.
(TIL hedgehogs are native to China.)
---L.
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