"a Dream Of Red Mansions" Modal Particle Study

The status of "A Dream of Red Mansions" in vernacular literature history is pivotal. It carries on modern times and arouses the modern age. "A Dream of Red Mansions" exerts a widespread literature influence and brings about important function in establishing the modern Chinese writing standard. The modal particles are an extremely important part of speech in Chinese grammar system. Chinese modal particles in ancient and modern times evolve differently. There are easily noticeable differences in literary style and vernacular modal particles.But, in the near modern age there was a visible modal praticiples transformation process,from the antiquity literary style to the modern vernacular style."A Dream of Red Mansions" has acted an important role in this process. Clarifying modal particiles usage in "A Dream of Red Mansions" and confirming its status in Chinese history is the main subject of this research.The article is constituted by five parts:First part of this article summarizes object of study, research technique, research present situation and selected topic significance.The second part uses Chinese characters frequency retrieval software to retrieve Chinese modal particles of the ancient times which appear in"A Dream of Red Mansions" and the modern age modal particiles .Then this article retrieves these words which were used together in order to assume appearing frequency, lists the data, carries on the analysis.The third part is the article's main body, it consists of the case description of all modal particles which appear in"A Dream of Red Mansions", the analysis, and the comparison research with an identical form of modern Chinese.The fourth part is the comparative study, there will be made a comparison research ofthe modal particles in "A Dream of Red Mansions" and "Xing Shi Yin Yuan Zhuan" and the modern Chinese modal particles, summary.The fifth part is the conclusion part.