A Comparative Study Of Chinese And Vietnamese Idioms

Idioms are treasures in Chinese and Vietnamese language and culture. After the usage of two countries'people, they can embody pronounced cultural connotations and distinctive features. There are many color, animal, plant and numeral idioms between Chinese and Vietnamese. Comparing and analyzing them, this paper concludes the reasons which make the differences in cultural connotations. On the basis of the study, this paper proposes many solutions relatively.The paper consists of six chapters.Chapter one is introduction. This part introduces the present studies, reasons, significance, previous studies, sources of language materials, methods about this paper.Chapter two contrasts many color, animal, plant and numeral idioms in Chinese and Vietnamese: This part mainly analyze the idioms'cultural connotations from four aspects: same idiom has the same or similar cultural connotations; same idiom has the different cultural connotations; different idiom has the same or similar cultural connotations; there hasn't relative cultural words in each language. This part concludes that there have more similarities and little differences in the two countries'idioms.According to the studies in chapter one and two, the third chapter finds out the main reasons which cause the cultural differences between Chinese and Vietnamese idioms. This part analyzes them from four aspects: ethnical cultural psychology; allusion; geography and climate; custom. The last chapter concludes present states of teaching Chinese idioms for Vietnamese. After pointing out the problems, the section proposes many solutions from teachers, teaching methods and teaching editing.