A Study On The Idioms Of Chinese Zodiac Signs

Twelve zodiac four syllable idioms refers to the idioms which contain four syllable morpheme zodiac related idioms. Select the dictionary " Chinese Idioms Dictionary" Zodiac four-syllable idioms for the study, analyzing and researching from linguistics and culturology perspective.The first part is arranged by the order of the zodiac animals, zodiac cultural symbolism inherent in the four-syllable idioms research, in-depth analysis of the Zodiac animal idioms and contact between the Chinese traditional culture.The second part is to point out the source of zodiac idiom poetry, history, celebrity stories, myths, fables, Buddhist scriptures as the main source of poetry under which this source branch, Zodiac idioms coming from lot of essays by philosophers, Tang and Song Poetry and vernacular Literature.The change of Zodiac animal idioms is showing the number is growing, the scope of is transfering, the order and composition characteristics is changing.The third part is to classify the structure of the Zodiac animal idioms combined-structure ones are in the majority of all structures, so combined-structure ones are analyzed carefully and the combined-structure ones can be divided into two parts, the two-part combined unions and non-combined unions.In a combined structure,there is a different relationship between the back and the forth of the two-part combined unions, such as parallel relationship, causality, relativity, the purpose of relationships.The fourth part discusses the cultural factors and rhetorical features of Zodiac animal idioms.Cultural factors, from the three aspects of material culture and spiritual culture and institutional culture,will summarize and analyze the classification of Zodiac animai idioms. Rhetoric, from the idioms morpheme ingredients,we can find the idiom center Zodiac language modifiers and on the move will affect the semantics of color images, while Zodiac idioms contains a wealth of rhetoric species.