Study Of Words And Expressions On Wine In Ancient China

The main research object is the words and expressions on wine in Ancient China,which comes from the documents in the Ancient time. This is sylloge of words andfixed phrases, which associated with lexicon and made sense of "wine". It belongs tocohort study in the specified semantic category.It is mainly described the meaning ofwords and expressions, pragmatic on wine in the Ancient time, its development andrelated cultural phenomenon.According to the common cognitive rules to determine the cognitive framework of thesemantic classification, the words and expressions on wine can be divided into elevensemantic categories. Then, by the description and analysis, the features anddevelopment evolution can be reflected in the different periods of ancient times. Thisclassification is based on the semantic field and the concept field theory, but it isbroader than before. When describing the category of semantics, we will mainlydemonstrate the every stage of the semantic face from the synchronic perspective. Itsreplacement and evolution can be showed from the diachronic perspective. On thisbasis, we will make full use of term attribute analysis form to identity the difference,which can make the semantic expression more specific. Through the analysis andcomparison: before the Ancient, the words on wine had already formed the system,the more words can be given the specific concept, a simple word of monosyllable isdominated. In the middle of the Ancient times, a large number of new words wereproduced. Some of them had obvious time color, and some of them had more abstractand has some literary tendency. The proportion of the composite structure issignificantly increased. After the Ancient, the system of the words on wine is moreperfect and the compound trend is more obvious. It was mainly reflected in formationof the compound synonymous and phenomenon of frequency of utilization.On the basis of the meaning and semantic description, we study the words andexpressions on wine through the special individual cases and describe the extendedmeaning. These words may be generated the sum of meanings on wine via variousways, as a starting point, we will discuss how to generate the related new meanings inthe certain rules through the scope of narration of the Ancient.From this, we can find many words did not have the single meaning. Some ofthem had the complicated meanings; some of them appeared later. By the formationand evolution—the same field with the same mode—,it is not only enrich the related words, but also interrelated the different semanteme.As the theme vocabulary words, the word on wine, Chinese vocabulary systemand social economic cultural life exist mutual connection and interactive. From thedescription and textual research of typical words, the essence and connotation of theancient Chinese culture can be seen, reflect the language is the most importantfunction of cultural carrier and confirm the covariant theory between vocabulary andcultural change.