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[ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190625173456.htm 2019-06-26 ]
Pomponia maculicollis is apparently a species of cicada, an「insect that summons」with its loud mating call. Insects that live the larval stage (youth) buried in soil.
「Cicadas live underground as nymphs for most of their lives…their bodies and interior of the burrow become coated in anal fluids. …In the final nymphal instar, they construct an exit tunnel to the surface and emerge. They then moult (shed their skins) on a nearby plant for the last time, and emerge as adults.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada 2017-04-16 ]
Furthermore, the imagery of a nymph slathered with anal slurry fluids for 13 or 17 years, courtesy of her cohabiting close male relatives, was not lost upon the sages as an analogy, in recognition of the need to preserve the whole hymen prior to sale wholesale of the hole to a shaman, and maximize the pre-sale market price while continuing to enjoy the underlying asset. Perhaps the origin of the 16th century English idiom,「eating your cake and having it, too」(or, not) since careful licking would not necessarily cause undue hymeneal damage or disruption prior to final disposal of the asset, i.e., no material accumulated depreciation noticeable ('cake' there as in caked with batter, or oilcake, cake prior to baking), to have in one's possession something and be able to use or exploit it, to have it both ways.
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Pomponia maculatiocollis
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
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 14 entries
- Glyph.05441
- Strokes: 11
- other
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