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[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet…called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …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 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
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In another sense,「purposeless motion, aimless wandering」yet「running to get there」suggested by Chinese sages as fervent believers, RELIGIOUS DISCIPLES, those in whom some great motivation has kindled a fire of desire for getting to heaven with a deity and nothing will dissuade them. …someone who appears to be RUNNING IN PLACE perhaps, in motion but going nowhere while IMPRISONED and cannot escape the cult. Chinese sages were not devotees of either the concept of a supreme being or of foot-dis-integrating and getting to heaven with a diva deity.
「Purposeless motions in erotic shit」: might as well face it when addicted to love, or sex, of any sort: teachings, actions, deities and/or service providers that are ALLURINGLY ATTRACTIVE, SEDUCTIVE. A lifelong PRISON SENTENCE, a PURPOSELESS and FRIVOLOUS existence would have applied to both the sorcerer's apprentices as sexual slaves and to their addicted clientele. Such colorful descriptions might possibly be applied to any religious zealot in addition to those of the shamans. Further note that the Japanese pronunciation of this glyph is identical to that of 悪戯 meaning NAUGHTY BEHAVIOR, a mischievous prank, trickery, a joke, making a fool of someone, a pastime, hobby, lewd behaviour, sexual misconduct or assault, molestation and rape…not likely coincidence it seems.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: disciple; apprentice; believer; on foot; bare or empty; to no avail; only; prison sentence
Japanese EDRDG: on foot, junior, emptiness, vanity, futility, uselessness, ephemeral thing, gang, set, party, people
Unihan extended: disciple, follower; go on foot
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 146 entries
Chinese usage: 89 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 20 entries
- Glyph.03771
- Strokes: 10
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