The Study Of Words And Expressions In YiJian Zhi

YiJian Zhi, a collection of mystical stories written by HONG Mai in Southern Song Dynasty, is a masterpiece of classical Chinese novels and mystical stories in Song Dynasty. The novel contains 420 volumes and is rich in contents and themes. The stories about the immortal and ghost, the weird and wacky, the wizard and witch, illusions and acrobatics, culture and customs are all collected in the novel, which contributes to the diversity of semantic items in YiJian Zhi. HONG Mai, serving as an official traveled far and wide, had access to collect the weird news about people from all walks of life. Therefore, the language in his novels has s strong colloquial flavor. Many colloquial words of Song Dynasty are recorded and dialogues in the novel are highly colloquial, which are of great importance to the semantics study in both Song Dynasty and modern times. Furthermore, by comparing YiJian Zhi with the Great Chinese Dictionary(the Great Dictionary in Short), we notice that the Great Dictionary has some shortages in words collection, interpretation, exemplification and so on, while some valuable words in YiJian Zhi can remedy the losses. Many new words, new meanings in YiJian Zhi are worth further exploration so as to better use and understand the novel.The framework of the thesis is as follows:Chapter One: Foreword, a brief introduction to YiJian Zhi. HONG Mai and his novel YiJian Zhi, the contents and versions of the novel, research review and the significance of the semantic study are also discussed in this chapter.Chapter Two: Demonstrate the colloquial words in YiJian Zhi, and select some unique colloquial words, which the author endeavors to illustrate the correct interpretation of those words.Chapter Three: Compare YiJian Zhi with the Great Dictionary. By comparison, some shortages in the Great Dictionary ranging from the exemplification, words collection and interpretation are discussed, detailed interpretation about certain specific words are also put forward by the author.Chapter Four: Focuse on the collation notes. By taking codified version which published by Zhonghua Publishing House in 1981 as the original one, and by referring to the edition of WAN WEI BIE CANG and QING YING SONG CHAO, the author makes an effort to further collate the novel.Otherwise, the end of the thesis is attached by some colloquial words that are seldom mentioned but are interpreted by the author for further reference.