To Inferent The Funeral Culture From The Ancient Chinese Vocabulary

This thesis includes six chapters.The First chapter is the introduction part. Its main idea is to introduce thesignificances, the ways of the research, also the present situation of the research of thethesis.The second chapter introduces two points: What is the Funeral (Culture)? How didthe Funeral (Culture) emerged? It includes the origin of the Funeral Culture, theimportance of the Funeral Culture in the society, also the differences of some words.The third chapter introduces a great deal of euphemistic words. These wordsinclude some kinds as following: leaving away, becoming the supernatural being,giving up the life, disappearing from the world, the collapse of mountainous, and soon.From he fourth chapter to the sixth chapter introduce something about theceremony and the culture of Funeral.The fourth chapter introduces the words about ‘die just on a short time’ and ‘coffinthe body’.The fifth chapter introduces the words about ‘how to bury the body’.The sixth chapter introduces the specific words about ceremony and the culture ofFuneral.By the expound explanation, we can gain the conclusion as following.Firstly, we can see the development of the civilization form the changes theceremony and the culture of Funeral of the ancients.Secondly, the ancient had been influenced by a idea of supernatural beings.Thirdly, the ancient had a high requisition level of the ceremony and the culture ofFuneral.Fourthly, Feudalism cruelly injures or kills the people to a lurid condition.Fifthly, it has reached to a high level that the ancient denominated an affair or athing.Sixthly, the euphemistic words reflect the plentiful connotation, not just somesimple changes of the external language.