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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「Altar, meat sacrifices, display, show, religion」with「no-longer-integrated feet」in reference both to the shaman's religion and to transforming little girls into sex meat sacrificed on the altar of pleasure, for the WELL-BEING, and WELFARE of society as a whole. no-longer-integrated feet were used as surrogate sex orifices to mitigate the spread of sexually transmissible infection and disease resulting from contact with mucous membranes, a service plan that seemed like a good idea at the time.
「Display」one's「feet busted」after unwrapping the bindings to verify the WELFARE, WELL-BEING of the physical condition to verify the absence of gangrene, protruding bone splinters, and infection. Clients were highly interested in a display, show of no-longer-integrated feet:「Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Some have suggested WELL-BEING to「stop at the altar」and be doing well enough to leave a donation as preached by various religions: if you desire blessings then「stop and make a display」by giving your money to a god that can always use a little more, it seems.
Then again, maybe the message was that the best way to find well-being is to「stop religion」altogether and imagine all the people living life in peace, as John Lennon suggested, perhaps in a welfare state the same as females with no-longer-integrated feet in China, recalling that the religion of the day was shamanism and the worship of sex, generally.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: felicity
Japanese EDRDG: welfare, happiness
Unihan extended: happiness, blessings, good luck
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 25 entries
Chinese usage: 7 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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