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Ju Song
''Ju Song'' () is a Classical Chinese poem which has been preserved in the ''Nine Pieces'' (''Jiu Zhang'') section of the ancient Chinese poetry anthology, the ''Chu ci'', or ''The Songs of Chu''. The poem has been translated into English by David Hawkes as "In Praise of the Orange-Tree". In the poem, the orange-tree is used as a metaphor for certain human qualities, such as "steadfastness".〔Hawkes, 178〕 Hawkes explains this by the tradition that this type of orange tree is supposed to grow naturally only in the part of China of which the ancient land of Chu was included in (as opposed to the northern plain). The particular orange-tree (''ju'') mentioned is what David Hawkes calls "''citrus nobilis''"; but, this type of orange (or, its hybrids) is now usually botanically referred to as ''Citrus reticulata'', or else by the common name of "mandarin orange".
==Symbolism==
The word ''ju'', meaning "orange (fruit or tree)" is phonetically reminiscent of the word ''zhù'' (祝), which means "to wish or pray for", as in the phrase ''zhù fú'' (祝福), "to wish or pray for good luck", thus the orange is symbolically a "harbinger of good luck".〔Eberhard, 219〕 Also in ancient times the emperor gave oranges to his officials,〔Eberhard, 219〕 and was thus like an orange tree, by being a source of orange fruits.
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