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之 zhi1: ...'s / him / her / it /
貞 zhen1: perseverant / chaste / virtuous // divination / omen /
子 zi3: son / child / seed / egg / fruit / young /
南 nan2: south /
北 bei3: north /
朋peng2: friend /pal /acquaintance (2)
吉 ji2: lucky / fortunate /
I agree!(3) Better VITAL & MATURE than RIGID or UNMATURE (of course, for getting LOVERS)
Nothing passive with earth fecundity.
Ancient chinese people see females biologically stronger than males: «women defeat men like water suffocates fire».
Ch.
Here is what I was thinking about with the Thunder. Your picture wouldn't transfer over, but Lise's link did.
Hi, Courtney:[Nothing passive with earth fecundity.
Ancient chinese people see females biologically stronger than males: «women defeat men like water suffocates fire». Ch.]
Bruce and yourself have been discussing this, but I am not sure I have a complete handle on them being stronger. Physically because they bare children? Or in another way (or all ways)?
I like the shape of this character. It's like Zoro's mark. What does the ...'s mean?
The upper component is BU or PU, which means TO DIVINE / TO CONSULT THE ORACLE /TO FORETELL, it has an itiphallic shape, at least for westerners.I am starting to get familiar with the 2 lines at the top of this character from Bu:
This one looks like thunder and I am thinking about what Lise said in the Gender Association Thread. I don't actually understand the origin of this one, but I know that Thunder represents the First Son:
Is there a bird inside of there? I was just thinking that the South is associated with the Pheonix:
This could be a close up picture of a bone crack in a tortious shell. Still going off of the Animal associated with the Direction:
It's said that means FRIEND / PAL and that depicts TWO STRINGS OF COWRIES. Nowadays FRIEN needs a two-syllabe word. Peng must have another senses, among it, LONGEVITY = SEXUAL meanings.Snail shells on a string? Or two chicks hanging out?:
It means LUCKY / PROPITIOUS / GOOD / FORTUNATE. I believe that it depicts a PHALLIC SHRINE BUILT ON A HOLE IN THE SOIL. Maybe can be read so: GOOD LIKE TO JOIN THE YIN WITH THE YANG. Another character for GOOD depicts a WOMAN with a CHILD. More reputable.This gives a good feeling:
Harper provides an annotated translation of the Mawangdui medical manuscripts ... [that] are untitled, but have been assigned titles by Chinese scholars on the basis of their contents.
MS-1(the first manuscript) consists of five sections:
- Zubi shiyi mai jiujing or "Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Vessels of the Foot and Forearm" (1.1),
- Yin Yang shiyi mai jiujing or "Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Yin and Yang Vessels" (1.2),
- Maifa or "Model of the Vessels" (1.3),
- Yin Yang mai sihou or "Death Signs of the Yin and Yang Vessels" (1.4),
- Wushier bingfang or "Recipes for Fifty-two Ailments" (1.5).
MS-2 has two parts:
- Quegu shi qi "Eliminating Grain and Eatin g Vapor" (2.1),
- Daoyin tu "Drawings of Guiding and Pulling" (2.2).
MS-3 and MS-4 are compendia of recipes:
- Yangsheng fang or "Recipes for Nurturing Life"
- Zaliao fang or "Recipes for Various Cures."
MS-5:
Taichan shu , the "Book of the Generation of the Fetus," is specifically concerned with pregnancy.
MS-6 and MS-7 consist of four texts on various subjects:
- Shiwen or "Ten Questions" (6.1),
- He Yin Yang or "Harmonizing Yin and Yang" (6.2),
- Zajin fang or "Recipes for Various Charms" (7.1),
- Tianxia zhidao tan or "Discussion of the Culminant Way in Under-heaven" (7.2).
From a review by Lisa Raphals published in China Review International 7.2 (Fall 2000)
Unlike Jinkui yaolue regarding ´sexual dreams´as a symptom of women´s only Zhouhou Fang sugests that both men and women may dream of sex with either human being or ´demons´. These problems can be solved by herbal formulas, acupuncture or moxibustion.
Source: Hsiu Fen Chen: Dreaming sex with demons
(The link doesn´t function but here another from the same author:
http://128.220.160.199/journals/late_imperial_china/v032/32.1.chen.html
Some people liked to go to the tomb with good literature for enjoying in the afterlife: philosophy, the Lao Zi, the Zhou Yi, medical text. Maybe the more wealthy on JOINING YIN / YANG with it promise of LONG LIFE and even, the jackpot, IMMORTALITY!
For the afterlife, maybe, comics.What literature would you take?
For the afterlife, maybe, comics.
Ch.
... can't read the language but the pictures SAY a lot.
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