A Poem from the Book of Songs Contains the Lines,"Large

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Short Answer

A poem from the Book of Songs contains the lines,"Large rats! Large rats! / Do not eat our millet." Who are the rats in this poem? What was life like for the Chinese peasants during the Zhou dynasty? How common was this type of protest from any peasants of the ancient world?

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