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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Perhaps depicts attempting to walk but unable to do so with much dexterity, given her feet condition, and therefore must take very dainty, small steps, causing her to appear to DAWDLE, LINGER, and to appear DIGNIFIED, SNOBBISH.
Girls from the countryside who needed to actually work with a healthy body and not just the vaginal, anal, oral, or foot orifices did not consent to having their feet no-longer-integrated with a cudgel and wrapped tightly for life, and were considered coarse and crude, undignified.
「Head in some sort of crotch around a female with stinky, bound, but erotically attractive feet」as in to DAWDLE, LINGER by inserting a peckerhead into one of the crotches of the service provider, or, having her stick her head in the client's crotch. Note that both the smell of her feet and other smells generated by the services performed might LINGER in the room air, or one's consciousness. Note further that foot binding made those females much easier to catch and schtup, since they couldn't run away too quickly, so the chaser could linger, dawdle a bit also and still reap his reward.
As FACING THE SKY, POINTING ONE'S NOSE INTO THE AIR that appears to mean snobbish, this behavior may have been simply due to some badly needed fresh air. Not coincidentally, the English word SNOB formerly meant a「cobbler」(someone who pounds on soles), a「lower-class person, person who aspires to social prominence」(such as the females wanting no-longer-integrated feet) [ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/snob 2014-04-08 ]
Japanese pronunciations add the meanings ROTTEN STINK, and OBSOLETE, but since Japan did not adopt foot-dis-integrating from China in a big way, these meanings may have been prevalent in China also. ROTTEN STINK may apply both to the permitted anal access originally depicted and to bound feet, with OBSOLETE suggesting that the practice of foot-dis-integrating became the preferred method (for some, at least).
「Loose stinky and bent legs with spread feet, sliding down from crotch」as SQUATTING needs no further explanation.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Unihan extended: to dawdle; the emperor Yao's father
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(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
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Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
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Sex had no shame in ancient China.
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