Try To Talk About The Cultural Significance And Meaning Of Chinese Relatives Appellation

Appellation is a form of languages that can best reflect a kind of racial cultureand regional features and background. And relatives appellation terms acting as theprecipitation of Chinese lineage clan culture for thousands of years can particularlyreflect the unique significance different from other nations in the rest of the world.This paper, taking Chinese relatives appellation terms as the object, discusses thecultural significance and connotation of Chinese relatives appellation inaccordance with the track of "language—culture—language", referring tosystemic methods for traditional appellation research, combined with thetraditional learning and social culture textual exegesis. And the importance andnecessity of taking Chinese relatives appellation terms as a content in teachingChinese as a foreign language are discussed in the essay, by comparing it with thelanguage relatives appellation terms of UK, Japan, Vietnam, etc.This paper is divided into five parts, the first part is the introduction, whichmainly summarizes the meaning of Chinese relatives appellation terms, theresearch of the classics of all dynasties, the result of recent research of the relativesappellation terms, the significance of relatives appellation terms research, the ideasand methods used in this essay. The second part expounds the historical andmodern classification of Chinese relatives appellation terms, and analyzes thelanguage form of the major Chinese relatives appellation terms. The third partreveals the national culture connotation reflected in Chinese relatives appellationterms, then analyzes the national psychology and social system implicited in alanguage. The fourth part concludes the main social function of relativesappellation terms. The fifth part discusses the significance of Chinese relativesappellation terms to the foreign Chinese teaching, and makes suggetions to thecontents.