Contrastive Analysis Of Chinese And Thai Animal Idioms

In Thailand,"Chinese fever" already have several years more and more each year to learnChinese students, so that closer Sino-Thai relations, China and Thailand from the Han Dynastybegan to have a long history of friendly exchanges, overseas Chinese in Thailand, accountingfor12%of the population, so part of the two countries’ customs and habits are different. Hasbeen between the two countries are a major agricultural country; farming, aquaculture, is thebasic means of subsistence. Animal life is a good friend of the people, and most of the Sayingsof the animals as metaphor in language, since the two countries have different language andculture background, is not the same people’s way of thinking, customs are different, theacceptance of animals and related concepts are not the same, so that the meaning and symbolicmeaning of the Chinese and Thai animal Sayings vary. Thai students in learning ChineseAnimal Sayings susceptible to the mother tongue influence bias. Therefore, the choice ofanimal Sayings for the study. First collected this paper, starting from the Sayings of the animalin the Chinese and Thai cultural linguistics, lexicology, contrastive linguistics, inter language,and bias analysis of the theoretical and descriptive linguistics the data statistics and analysis.Contrast the characteristics of Chinese and Thai Animal Sayings and cultural connotations andsocial and cultural background. Explore the definitions and sources of the sayings of theChinese and Thai, Chinese and Thai Animal Sayings in the form of features, syntactic function,and animal range and classification. Secondly, the image to explore the Chinese and ThaiAnimal Sayings, and metaphorical justice between the semantic correspondence between; fromthe geographical environment, lifestyle, ideas, beliefs, analysis of different emotional attitudeof the Thai people’s animals. Hoping to two people’s language learning and cultural exchangesprovide a reference.