鹿鳴鹿鸣
The Deer Call
Librarian’s score8.0Claude · AI
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A gracious banquet song whose opening lines Cao Cao borrowed and whose name later examination feasts took; its worth is more ceremonial and historical than lyrical.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
The opening song of the Lesser Odes, sung at banquets for honoured guests for more than two thousand years; in later dynasties the feast for newly passed examination candidates was named after it. It is a poem about hospitality as a kind of learning: the host feeds his guests and in return they ‘show me the right road’. Cao Cao quoted its first four lines in his Short Song, which is one way a poem gets carried on.
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A song from the Book of Songs (Shijing), compiled by about the sixth century BCE.
Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
Wikisource
retrieved 11 October 2026 - Translation
English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001004
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Full record
- Title
- 鹿鳴
The Deer Call 鹿鸣 - Author
- Anonymous 佚名 (c. 11th–6th century BCE)
- Date
- Pre-Qin
Zhou dynasty, before c. 600 BCE - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- The received Mao text as given on Chinese Wikisource, without the Mao preface, chapter count and notes. Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.