Another Short History of Linguistics (11)

As牡=bull and 牝=cow, obviously the symbol of 士 represent the male sex. You may find many Chinese characters have this symbols to represent male. But as being more than two thousand years in a feudalism rule, no one dare say the truth, even Confucius dared not say it directly. Today, China is still under the feudalism system that is the real power in the hand of few powerful family, some corrupted high rank officer has dozens or even hundreds sexual partner, yet the government still won’t talk about this. The funniest thing is that when an officer led a dissipated and corrupt life, normally he is the person who pressed the sex life of others the most. For it shown the rank of himself, if anyone can talk about sex, it would be worthless. This phenomena disturbed the study of Sinology very much. Every clear information had been blurred, and we can only from some indirect material found what the ancient people wanted to express. If the information totally lost, we have to guess or to image what the ancient people thinking about. I can’t say what I said it the truth but I will do the best. Today we believe the following image is the original one that caused an ancient person drew the character ‘士’.   

 In ancient time some calligrapher drew the character as:

It is not too hard to understand what the two spots represent for. Yet some of the official material said the character of 士means an axe:

They argue that another character壯 (means strong), come from 爿plus 士. The 爿means bed as turning 90° it look like:

So a bed plus an axe means in ancient time a strong man always keep an axe on bed. This opinion is from: http://www.vividict.com/WordInfo.aspx?id=3186

But another opinion believe that male is strong in sex on bed:

Pic from http://www.hanziyuan.com/ziyuan/9/3bcsl266m0mw.jpg

I prefer the later one, because in ancient time the axe was more like:

Pic from: http://blog.nownews.com/2/2516/img/0000163546_b.jpg