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「Season to die, death is ripe」or「death while rutting, death in estrus」refers to DYING WHILE PERFORMING ONE'S DUTY, or in other words, DYING ON THE JOB. The job in this case is every male's duty to copulate with a willing female while ovulating (or in the heat of estrus), and the strain or excitement literally kills the male animal, or kills the schwantz (left element of「meat hanging from bone[r]」) dying for a good cause, it may seem at the time:
https://www.ranker.com/list/animals-who-die-after-sex/kellen-perry
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/animals-sex-death-cannibalism/
May refer to the genital 'vulva eye that winks' when the female of some species is in estrus, horses especially, signaling the desire and readiness to immediately copulate unabashedly by winking her vulva, complete with juicy puckering sounds (believe it, or not). It is the duty of any nearby male of the same or similar species to accommodate her desire, even unto martyrdom.
「Winking the vulva is one of the signs a mare is in heat. Frequent urination, tail raising, squatting, and fence or wall pushing are also signs the mare is in heat. I have had mares that seemed uncomfortable being [ridden] and even acted colicky when in heat. You can have your vet [verify] to be sure this is what is going on. Mares vary a great deal in their behavior when in estrus (heat) from no signs at all to very pronounced signs. I hope this answers your question satisfactorily. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.」
[ https://www.justanswer.com/horse-health/1h8pq-year-old-mare-winking-vulva-not-pregnant.html 2017-05-01 ]
Public displays of「meat arrayed in estrus with ovulation and willingness to copulate unabashedly」as HERALDING AN ANNOUNCEMENT (see the variant 徇) to all with ears to hear, among other appendages. Prancing about and loitering with one's vulva swollen, reddened, and exuding pheromone-laden fluids in order to entice males to battle one another for the chance to copulate with that meat:「one that gives a sign or indication of something to come. An official who formerly made proclamations and conveyed challenges at a tournament. To proclaim, especially with enthusiasm, announce or acclaim」 [ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/herald 2018-02-28 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to be buried with the dead; to die for a cause
Japanese EDRDG: martyrdom, follow by resigning
Unihan extended: die for cause, be martyr for
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 9 entries
Chinese usage: 12 entries
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