Research On The Kinship Terms Of Shuowen

The relatives appellation is using blood relationship or marriage for system,using marriage and family as the center including family relatives and outside familyclan between relatives for the appellation. Yi·XuGuaZhuan：“Have men and womenthen have a couple, have a couple then have a father and son。”so human ethics beganin men and women married couples, form a marriage relationship，then they give birthto and raise children, blood relatives gradually expanded, appellation problemsnaturally was born. so the relatives appellation was coming with the emergence of thehuman family group, and along with the development of social development andchanges. The existence of patriarchal clan system influence China for thousands ofyears, let the traditional culture that man is superior to woman and respect forseniority based on blood relationship and affinity relationship inherit for thousands ofyears, accordingly to that is the word of relatives appellation is various andcomplicated. Liang ZhangJu in the author’s preface of The appellation recordpoint out：“The ancients appellation，each have different，under the guise of others，his name is due to cover the ritual zhou system……after generation is manyappellation。”①Language is the carrier of culture，so the change of society will correspond inlanguage，this change is more obvious in performance of vocabulary。Wang xi-jieonce pointed out:"in essence,language is different from other culture, for thisperformance,it is the carrier of culture at the same time, it has recorded the humanculture, it is in itself a human culture, language and culture is the mutual influence andrestriction. On one hand, cultural influence restricts the emergence and developmentof the language; on the other hand language also influence the generation、development and spread of culture." Chinese relatives appellation terms word is a kind of language sign, whichmarked the han nationality blood and marriage, as a part of the vocabulary,therelatives appellation terms word is relatively stable, whIn the eastern han dynasty,thebook–Shuowen had been completed, is the first six systematic analysis theory toexplain the meaning of the form, the dictionary in our country, is a masterpiece in thehistory of Chinese linguistics. It is an objective analysis of the original meaning of theword, these meanings are mostly reflects social cultural concept in the shang periodand prehistoric and han dynasty. In the article Shuowen, Xu shen explained somerelatives appellation terms word, so that we learned these relatives applellation termsto the original meaning of the word, on the basis of it,make us better explore theirevolution way. This paper takes the relatives appellation terms and the basic theory inthe ancient Chinese vocabulary study as the guide, the relatives appellation termsword as the research object, and analyzes the evolution of the Chinese relativesappellation terms words.The article which is divided into three categories: allegedmale relatives appellation of words, alleged sexual relatives appellation terms wordsand alleged that the men and women of the relatives appellation word, according toposition in the family hierarchy and different birthright, every categories is dividedinto elder relatives appellation terms, equals the relatives appellation terms and theyounger generation relatives appellation terms, and for each one relatives appellationterms word,which is explained, reveals the relationship between the relativesappellation terms words and Chinese families and relatives system, and which reflectthe kinship, patriarchal clan system, the marriage system, family ethics, and thechange of social culture and so on, in order to grasp the cultural connotation in the hannational relatives appellation terms.