The Semantic Analysis And The Culture Explanation Of Chinese Traditional Cultural Core Category Of Xian

Chinese people trend to celebrate an Emperor of great achievement with such words as "various""wise", to praise offspring "various""docile", to appoint people on their merit in order to make up the malpractice of patriarchal clan system."Xian" plays a core role in Chinese traditional culture, which deeply affects people’s judgments of their life ideals and ethical value. First of all, on the shoulders of the predecessors, the paper analyses the semantic system and semantic evolution process of "Xian".Then, we select the Confucian classics Analects of Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi as the study text, combined with the background of the times, deal with the semantic feature of "Xian" and display its semantic rheology in the Confucian culture.