Loving Two-syllable Word

The more important period of Chinese development is in the Han dynasty .which is the important period of the historical lexicology of Chinese too .Many new words and new meanings of some old words appear with the development of society .At the same time ,the word—formation has made progress too Hanshi Waizhuan (韩诗外传) is written by Han Ying in the Western Han Dynasty .For it's special style ,it has many values of language material on language research .This paper puts emphasis on completely describing the disyllabic words of the book ,by means of the method of fixed quantity statistics and static description . Compares them correspondingly with those in works of the same and near ages .and then summarizes the characteristics of the constitute forms of disyllabic words .definite it's position in the historical lexicology of Chinese.At first ,this paper makes some strict criterions on identifying the words and phrases on the basis of previous achievement ,then find 1408 disyllabic words according these rules . This paper describes and analyzes the word—formation and the meanings of these disyllabic words on the base of fixed quantity analysis .It consist of five sections : Han Ying and Hanshi Waizhuan (韩诗外传) ; the current situation of research on Hanshi Waizhuan (韩诗外传) and disyllabic words ; criterions on identifying the words and phrases ; disyllabic words of Hanshi Waizhuan (韩诗外传); conclusion.This paper tries to prove that the early stage of Western Han Dynasty is a period of transition from the remote ages of language to medium ages of language ,in which the disyllabic words increased quickly .The grammatical constitute forms was much go beyond with the pronunciation constitute forms .Most of the disyllabic words belong to compound word .There is unbalance with the constitute forms of compound words .The joint forms and the modifying forms go beyond the other forms .We can find that the constitute forms of disyllabic words of that time is reaching perfect compared with Xianqin language ,and still has some distance with that of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the modern language .Say it briefly .the disyllabic words of the early stage of Western Han Dynasty has the very important position that can't be neglected .We can supply some valuable materials and attestations for the historical lexicology of Chinese through studying the disyllabic words of Hanshi Waizhuan (韩诗外传).