Four Great Classics Word Frequency Is Studied

Four masterpieces ("A Dream of Red Mansions","Three Kingdoms","Outlaws of the Marsh","Journey to the West") is a classic of Chinese classical literature, not only been great to revered in China’s literary history, but also a milestone in the history of the development of the vernacular novel. It has a high degree of cultural and academic value. Although the four masterpieces in all aspects and the most studied the cultural connotation, the results on Chinese characters are not a lot. Linked to the results on the Chinese characters study of the four masterpieces and teaching Chinese as a foreign language areas are few.Nowadays, the career of teaching Chinese as a foreign language flourish, a growing number of Chinese as a second language learners learn the language at the same time, expect to understand the Chinese culture. In this way read the four masterpieces in vernacular is a good way to understand Chinese culture. But master how many Chinese characters to be able to read or even read the four masterpieces, which is not studied statistics. Since the four masterpieces are fairly long, and the traditional study of Chinese characters is time consuming. However the rapid development of computer technology supplies the technical conditions for the Chinese character study. Therefore a comprehensive statistical study of the four masterpieces words conduct easily.This article will use the word frequency software to get the separate statistics on the use of characters of the four masterpieces, and carry out and analyze it. Then got1500Chinese characters that the highest frequency of use. It is simply the number of a reflection, for those software statistical data derived from the word frequency. In order to better analyze these data, and3500characters commonly used in the frequency table statistics are compared. After in-depth analysis of horizontal and vertical in the1500Chinese characters, these characters unity and differences are also clear.With the1500Chinese characters and its detailed analysis of the detail.The combination of these conditions, and thus reached the ultimate goal of the paper. That is, provide data of the number of Chinese words for the Chinese as a second language learners to be able to read and even read the four masterpieces. This is also the innovation of this paper, the word frequency linked to research and teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Moreover from the practical application level, on the one hand, Provides a basis to read the four masterpieces in front of a self-trieth; on the other hand, for teachers to provide special teaching of Chinese characters on the teaching of the four masterpieces basis. This study extends the research in this area, but also enriched the data in this area. Four masterpieces of research, focusing on its use of Chinese characters, is the frequency of the words, which does not consider the cultural significance implied by the four masterpieces’Chinese characters.