Study Of Contemporary Chinese People's Love Sentiment

"Jia" is a word with strong Chinese cultural color. Because of cultural, historical and economic factors, the Chinese has stronger attachment to "Jia" than any other people in other cultural backgrounds. First, semantic analysis was used to study the implication of the attachment to "Jia". We found that the word of "Jia" contains the family, the hometown and the country in Chinese people's mind. The emotion implications of "Jia" is the most important aspect for most of Chinese people. Second, The study summaried the psychological representations of the attachment to "Jia" from Chinese proverbs. These representations can be divided into three big kinds: (1) the attachment to home, including advocating harmony, cherishing honor, hoping the prosperous, husband sings while wife follows and four generations live together; (2) The attachment to hometown, including hating to leave a place where one has lived long, the idea of the hometown is beautiful, to revert to its origin and to return home with riches and honors; (3) And the attachment to the country mainly manifests in patriotic like family.Third, social validity method was used to study the representation of "Jia" in contemporary Chinese people's mind. 317 young people made free associations of "Jia" on the base of Spreading Activation Model. The researcher selected the first 80 associations with the frequency above 4.3% and made 80 cards. 80 young people classified the 80 conceptions according to the relationship of 80 conceptions. The results showed that there were five representations of "Jia" in contemporary Chinese people's mind:(l) the emotion implications of "Jia"; (2) family and security sense; (3) the material base of "Jia"; (4) responsibility and duty; (5) trivial and conflict. At last, we did some qualitative analysis on the attachment to "Jia" and discussed the enlightenment of the attachment to "Jia".