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As scholars say, perhaps refers to the process of「splitting open selected silk fibers that were bound to a tree to reveal the meat inside」those of silk caterpillar cocoons, in order to learn which cocoons were the most prized. The cocoons are SOFTENED by boiling and gentle KNEADING to loosen the fibers which CONDENSES the overall volume of material and boils down the water in the pot. The basic concept is that of the PREPARATION needed prior to making thread, which then applied to TRAINING and IMPROVEMENT as in learning from these experiences. By examining the meaty insides of the caterpillars, it was learned what diet is preferred and what foods will produce the finest silk.
「Ejaculations」with「binding」is another technique to SOFTEN and with gentle KNEADING to loosen the inside meat in PREPARATION, for example as one of the feudal lord's many concubines. This procedure served to「select the best candidates」and BOIL DOWN, CONDENSE the supply by carefully examining the meaty insides, which then applied to TRAINING and IMPROVEMENT as in learning from these experiences. Japanese variant reduces the right element stroke count by one.
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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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 130 entries
Chinese usage: 40 entries
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