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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)?
Hi, Courtney:
Dialogs with the so called Yellow Emperor were not only in medical treatises but also in maybe less respectable treatises about JOINING THE YIN WITH THE YANG. Say, inner alchemy or bedchamber arts.
One of the later edition of an early text is the SUNU JING or Classic of the Plain Girl. In the firsts paragraphs she said to the Yellow Emperor:
素女曰：
SU NU SAYS:
The Plain Girl said:
Miss Naural said:
...
夫女之勝男，
IMHO (1) GIRLS' DEFEATING MEN,
IMHO Men defeating of girls,
Girls defeat men,
猶水之滅火。
AS WATER'S SUFFOCATING FIRE
Is like the fire suffocation of water.
Just as water suffocates fire.
Source of the chinese text: http://folkdoc.com/
Of course, it was speaking of female sexual superiority.
I like the shape of this character. It's like Zoro's mark. What does the ...'s mean?
A zhi B means A's B or the B of A, like in the Zorro's Mark.
At the end, zhi means IT, like in CATCH IT.
I am starting to get familiar with the 2 lines at the top of this character from Bu:
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.
The lower component is BEI, SELLS / COWRIES / MONEY / TREASURE / VALUABLE / PRECIOUS and depicts a sacred vessel or piled cowry shells, used as money and seen by ancient chineses as FEMALE GENITALIA. The pierced cowries adquired some reminiscences.
The character zhen, that anciently meant DIVINATION / OMEN adquired later the meaning of WOMEN CHASTITY / VIRTUOUS / PERSEVERANT.
THE FEMALE COMPONENT ALWAYS HAD MORE WEIGHT, MAYBE MEANING «FEMALE SUPERIORITY»
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:
It means SON / CHILD / YOUNG / SEED / FRUIT / A NOBLE of LOWER RANK / and much more. It depicts a BABY WITH WRAPPED LEGS, like Swee Pea. I believe that can be used as an euphemism for the male member, in which case can be read as MEN ARE BUT BIG CHILDREN.
Is there a bird inside of there? I was just thinking that the South is associated with the Pheonix:
I dont see the BIRD, I see a LAMB, but not sure.
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:
I don't remember how bone cracks looked like. I see a sat person with the back against a bank. Chinese houses were built back to the North.
Snail shells on a string? Or two chicks hanging out?:
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.
This gives a good feeling:
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.
As you can see, always in the nitch!
All the best,
Charly
P.D.
(1) IMHO: 夫 is a humble introduction, the girls was speaking to a High Ruler, to a so called Emperor.
I must check the etymologies, my memory is as weak as my knowledge.
Ch.
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