Japanese Chinese Idiom Comparative Study

With the development of the Cognitive Linguistics, we find that many meanings of the idioms come from people's cognition and most of them are motivated, that is to say Conceptual Metaphor, Conceptual Metonymy, Background knowledge and the interaction between them. So this paper tries to explore the meanings of the idioms----"the eye"and"the heart"from the perspectives of metaphor and metonymy.The paper first sums up the meanings of the words----"the eye"and"the heart"according to the dictionary and makes the metaphoric and metonymic analysis of them. Then,the writer lists some of the idioms which consist of"the eye"and"the heart"and analyzes them according to the metonymic meaning,metaphoric meaning,the interaction of metaphoric mechanism and metonymic mechanism.Meanwhile, during the analysis, the writer also finds out what roles they can play when these idioms are formed.After the above comparative analysis, we can find the similarities and the differences when people in these two country feel and understand the world through the idioms concerning"the body". While they are closely connected with the society and the culture, the formation of the idioms related to the body vocabulary is influenced by the cognitive ways of the people.