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「The dark side of this vine has to do with its amazing vigor and the ability for its tendrils to travel swiftly underground, popping up far away from the main plant, and devilishly wrapping around trees, rose bushes or virtually anything else that is in their path and standing still.」
Https://www.gardenista.com/posts/plant-of-the-week-wisteria 2016-02-04 ]
「Woody stalk with seeds dripping from tip and internally divided」most likely describing the agony of gonorrhea prior to antibiotics. See related glyph for details (藤):「emerging shafts of meat with burning sensation and sticky fluids.」
Wisteria is a bine (not a vine) that climbs by wrapping around any available support, such as a woody structure or pole-shaped object. Chinese wisteria appear as long, whitish, dripping flower clusters:
「Wisteria is an extremely hardy plant that is considered an invasive species…due to its ability to overtake and choke out other native plant species. …It can grow in fairly poor-quality soils, but prefers fertile, moist, well-drained soil. …[A] reason for failure to bloom can be excessive fertilizer…. Finally, wisteria can be reluctant to bloom because it has not reached maturity. Maturation may require only a few years…or nearly twenty…. Maturation can be forced by physically abusing the main trunk [by literally whipping or beating it], root pruning, or drought stress.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria 2013-08-29 ]
When certain varieties of plants and fruit trees fail to bloom, whipping or whacking the trunk or main stem with a piece of lumber, stout rope, and so on will stimulate sap flow and often aid in blooming,「wood stalks internally divided.」
Elements as「emerging shafts and seeds at tip of shaft with internally no-longer-integrated in need of balancing and adjustment」refer also to the maturation process while training a concubine, often by whacking or whipping, and deprivation of nourishment, food and water as needed until she 'gets her mind right again' in the opinion of her owner or boss.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
EDRDG: type of wisteria
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
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