Nomenclature Of Peony Category And Its Cultural Connotation

China has a long history, and has many species, the peony as one of them become more and more prosperous after thousands of years, and finally become fully deserve the idea of "the king of flowers" in the people of all ethnic groups. Nowadays, with more and more advanced cultivation techniques of peony, the species of peony also increased, and it’s necessary to name every species, the names also showed some regularity and cultural characteristics, so the analysis and research on the peony category name is necessary.Firstly, from the visual, peony category naming are classified, and then describes and analyzes the phonological and grammatical features of peony category name. Speech feature focuses on exploration of peony category name number of syllables and rhyme, rhythm distribution. Grammatical features focuses on exploration of peony category in the name of the collocation, structure and rhetoric. From these we can see some problems to the attention of the nomenclature for the different category of peony, such as the number of syllables in three or four syllable, rhythm is neat, the selected words should have a beautiful symbol and meaning, and modifier-head construction is mainly, the combination of positive and negative rhetoric can be seen anywhere.In addition, in the human society, language and culture are two inseparable parts, they influent mutually, restraint mutually, promote mutually, and reflect on every aspects of human language and culture life. The name of peony category is the expression of human’s language, so the relationship between language and culture is also suitable for peony’s name. Name of peony variety from different point of view reflects the traces of culture, folk culture, social consciousness culture, literature and art has played a huge role in the name of peony.The thesis’ several parts are as follows:The first chapter, introduction, briefly introduces the research objects, research significance, current situation, research methods and data sources.The second chapter, the peony category naming, this chapter mainly analysis the focus of all kinds of peony during the process of their naming directly, summed up the color, shape, character, place names, culture five named core focus.The third chapter, named characteristics of peony category, carries on the analysis from two aspects to the peony category name. One is the phonetic features of peony category name, firstly make a table, get the statistics of the number of double syllable, three syllable, four syllable and five syllables, the comparative result is that three syllable names are the most, and the four syllables are the second place, and then explain the reason why three or four syllable words name are in many from the point of rhythm word. Secondly, briefly analyze the rhythm of three syllables, four syllables and five syllables’ tones, drawing a conclusion that there are "2+1""2+2""2+3" and other forms; The last is to study the tone, high final pitched sound make grate contribution to the whole syllable sound brightness, so most name of peony in the end is high pitched, and the phonology tonal patterns of ancient poetry is still available in the peony category name. Another is the grammatical features of peony category name, first of all, I have summarized the lexical system that peony category name involved, which is the vocabulary of color, plant, animal, natural scene, places and people, building and literature of seven major types. And then, by using words and phrases structure, I have list a table to calculate the statistics of peony category name, then we found, nominal phrase is clearly dominant, this is attributed to the grammatical quality of peony category name. Finally, the peony category name as a communication tool with strong communicative purpose, it cannot do without the rhetoric, before naming, it is necessary to determine the appropriate rhetorical strategy, during naming, it is necessary to use rhetorical methods suitably.The fourth chapter, the culture connotation of peony category name, the huge influence of culture reflected in all aspects of life, the cultural connotation that peony category name contains is discussed from three aspects:First is the embodiment of the folk life and culture, including the names of places and persons, animals and plants, living utensils and so on. Second is the impact of social and cultural consciousness, including folk culture tradition, such as the imperial system, Dragon and Phoenix totem, mysterious colors and numbers, and religions, especially the Taoism and Buddhism. Third is the transformation of literary arts in peony category name, by quoting classical words make peony breath in rich poetic literary paradise.Conclusion, this part is the summary of full text.