Culture Perspective In Chinese Idiom

This thesis consists of five parts. The first one is "Introduction", which mainly introduce the origin of the task and the significance of the studies. Language is the carrier of culture, and every national language loads its own profound cultural meaning. Chinese idiom is the most economic and effective symbol in Chinese symbols, and the culture it implicates has historical depth and realistic width. Idiom highly condenses the cream of Chinese national culture, so it is of great importance to seep Chinese culture through idiom.The second part is "Summary", which is divided into two sections. One is "Inquiry into idiom nature". On the base of analyzing and evaluating some ideas, the thesis brings up its own opinion: Idiom, whose structure is generally in four-syllable form, is phrase and short sentence that people has used for a long time, and it has strong literary language color. The other is "Summarizing idiom culture". As the inner level of the structure of culture, psychological culture has the function of cognition and value-orientation, and plays a directive function in the uninterrupted growth of the whole system of culture. The so-called "idiom culture" in the thesis mainly is the national psychological culture reflected from idiom. The aim of the thesis is to obtain Chinese cultural psychology in ancient times by means of psychological culture in idiom.The third part is "Perspective of psychological culture in idiom", which contents four sections. The first is The concept of values hi idiom". Chinese idiom, likes a multiple prism, reflects Chinese choice of values: (1) the concepts of patriarchal ethics, (2) the concepts of moral quality, (3) theconcepts of ways of the world. The second is "Modes of thinking in idiom". Many Chinese idioms show that dialectical thinking, imagine thinking and intuitional thinking are Chinese modes of thinking. The third is" Aesthetic standards in idiom". Idiom both its form and contents conveys aesthetic feeling so that brings enjoyment to people. The fourth is "Reason in idiom", which include "philosophy" and "experience of life" two aspects.The fourth part is "Cultural application of idiom". Just as Lu shuxiang had said, "the marvel of idiom lies in application". Cultural application of idiom has two aspects: one is "Advertising with idiom", the other is "Juggling with idiom terms". There are two methods how to use idiom in advertisement. The thesis analyses each of the two methods, and tries explaining why advertising with idiom is so prevalent using the theory of modern cognitive psychology. The so-called "Jugging with idiom terms" is some character plays using idiom as playing material. It embraces as followed: idiom riddle > idiom antithetical couplet * filling idiom interestingly ^ idiom-connection and so on. Advertising with idiom and juggling with idiom terms can not only make us succeed national cultural heritage but also bring joy and happiness to us, which make them widely applied to people's cultural life.The fifth part is "Ending". It points out that idiom, likes a mirror of Chinese traditional culture, reflects the cream of Chinese traditional culture in its distinctive way, Then we can say, the burden is heavy and the road is long to probe into Chinese traditional culture by walking into "idiom garden".