The Language Style Research Of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Documents

The Taiping heavenly kingdom Rebellion is the highest peak of peasant war which has a far-reaching political, ideological and cultural influence and significance in the Chinese history. In addition, it is the Peasants’ regime who make the most use of the official documents which become the important historical data of researching every aspects of the Taiping heavenly kingdom Rebellion in the history. Its documents are important parts of the Taiping heavenly kingdom Rebellion which plays a very important role in the Taiping heavenly kingdom’s revolution. Those documents’ language have unique characteristics and great research value.This survey involves the subjects of stylistics, language style, rhetoric and lexicography which sub-categorized to the linguistics that people can have a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding about the Taiping heavenly kingdom Rebellion from this perspective to researching the Taiping heavenly kingdom’s official documents. At the same time, the simple language style of Taiping heavenly kingdom’s official documents provided important valuable reference to the contemporary documents writing.This thesis based on The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Documents Compilation and use system analysis method to explore the Taiping heavenly kingdom’s documents’ language style then derive a conclusion that it have language stylistic characteristics of simple and bright, plain and simple, elegant and solemn. Furthermore, use the method of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis to count the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and rhetoric of The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Documents Compilation in general, and then describing and narrating the language style of the Taiping heavenly kingdom’s documents respectively.According to the Taiping heavenly kingdom documents’ phonetics(rhyme and rhyme schemes) characteristics, vocabulary(religious language, dialect, oral, proverb, lingo, taboo words and idioms) characteristics, grammar(Routine and variant sentences, long and short sentences, full and scattered sentence) characteristics and rhetorical(dual, parallelism, metaphor, references) characteristics, this thesis based on the theory of language stylistics and style rhetoric and cite instances to explain the language style characteristic of Taiping heavenly kingdom documents, then suggests that the Taiping heavenly kingdom documents and language style are closely related to the advocating of "simple and clear" vernacular trend.Innovative and practical significance of this dissertation is to find the profound document language style characteristic of the Taiping heavenly kingdom from the aspects of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, rhetoric, etc. As a result, we can deepen the knowledge and understanding then promoting the study documents and document language research of the Taiping heavenly kingdom and developing the theory of language style to a certain extent.