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「In north China, especially on the Loess Plateau, caves called yaodongs dug into hillsides have been the traditional dwellings from early times. …An estimated 40 million people in northern China live in a yaodong. Many people live in semi-recessed dugout houses in north-western China where hot summer and cold winters prevail.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_house 2012-07-02 ]
And in ancient Japan:
「The Early Jōmon is the first stage…of Japanese pre-history…[and] ranged from 10,000 to 300 BC…. This period saw a rise in complexity in the design of pit houses, the most commonly used method of housing at the time.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period 2012-07-02 ]
「Grounds of anal, genital, orifice penetration」as a PARTITION, LOW WALL located within a town or city used to delineate the red-lined districts from other areas. Relatively low walls and inner partitions are not designed as defenses against invading armies, particularly when located inside a town. Low walls are designed to restrict the motions of townsfolk and visitors, routing them toward the gateways where government patrols awaited to conduct mandatory medical inspections, measure the degree of symptoms, collect fees and bribes, constructed as a countermeasure implemented after rampant infectious pandemics of sexually transmitted disease occurred.
Moreover, literally refers to the sphincter and intestinal WALL, INNER LINING, INSIDE SURFACE with「feces, night soil」that surrounds a「penis, torture device」upon「anal penetration.」Top-left is clearly「anus」(buttocks hole) and top-right is「torture device」referring to penetration and punishment. The two top elements have all sorts of very wide-ranging connotations as might be expected, and in this case according to scholars:「tightly surrounding.」Anal penetration with「ground, earth, soil, dirt」(euphemisms, even in English, for「feces」) referred formerly to a completely enclosing wall on all sides. Whatever is used to penetrate an anus might likely be surrounded with feces on occasion, that is, surrounded by「soil」from the anal WALLS.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: wall; rampart
Japanese EDRDG: wall, inner lining, fence
Unihan extended: partition wall; walls of a house
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: 125 entries
Chinese usage: 121 entries
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