On The Extension Of The Meaning Of "Festival (Festival)" And Its Cultural Implication

Language is the carrier and a most essential factor of national culture, which will promote language in turn especially the development and change of characters and words. The important task of cultural linguistics is to search and disclose the internal connection between culture and language. Based on which this article unfold in-depth discussion on "JIE" what is one key concept of Chinese traditional ideology and culture.Firstly, this article focuses on the character pattern evaluation of "JIE" from ancient till today and presents this exact process from "JIE (卪、卩)" to "JIE (节)", then uses traditional exegetics that gets meanings from forms, radical analysis of "bamboo" combined with concept analysis on how Han nation make characters to deduce and validate that the original sense of "JIE" is "bamboo (plant) joint".Secondly, by checking reference books, writer concludes sixteen main senses of "JIE", straightens the sense extending procession of "JIE" and builds extending sequence for the meaning of "JIE" according to diachronic analysis of each sense’s generating sequence, related theories of cognitive linguistics and the characteristics of national culture and general rules extended from Chinese words meanings. Four senses as "tallies""constraint""item" and "scleromere" are extended directly from the original meaning and other senses generafte from their extensions subsequently.At last, in order to conduct in-depth discussion on Chinese culture connotation of "JIE",writer selects important concepts closely related to the senses of "J1E",discusses "solar term" and "festival" from the aspects of natural laws and social functions separately; interprets meanings of hexagram "JIE" and "appropriateness" in the category of ancient Chinese philosophy, elaborates history transmutation of "etiquette" and "moral integrity" on the level of ancient moral ethics; discloses the shining points of "conservation" consciousness in the theories of "Mohist","Confucianism" and "Taosim" in ancient ecological ethics field.Through elaboration on the pattern and meaning of character "JIE",this article discloses the cultural factors hiding behind it and clarifies related cultural venations, which has great significance for national culture recognition and national core culture system construction.