Multi-angle Research On The Figure "3" Of Chinese Idioms

Chinese idioms are type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions with stablemeanings which usually surpass the sum of the meanings carried by the single characters.Among all the idioms, idioms with numbers play a very special and important role. They havewon lots of attention of the researchers not only in the history but also recently. This thesismainly focused on374idioms with the figure "3" which come from Han Yu Cheng Yu DaQuan published by the Commercial press in2011, Zhong Guo Cheng Yu Da Ci Dianpublished by the Shanghai dictionary press in1987,and Han Yu Cheng Yu Da Ci Dianpublished by Jilin literature and history press in2008,the writer analyzed them based ondifferent theories such as Traditional Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and CulturalLinguistics, using varieties of methods such as Induction, Exemplification and Explanation.The aim of this article is to improve the society’s understanding about these kinds of idioms,which can also make a contribution not only to the study of modern Chinese Language,special idiom dictionaries editing, but also to the area of second language teaching.This thesis concluded six parts.The first section stressed the importance status of idioms with figure "3" and the currentstudies of this area. In addition, the writer made short introduction of research methods andmaterials source.The second section generalized some definitions from different kinds of books, and thewriter gives her own opinion about how to define the Chinese idioms according to the aboveconclusions.The third part focused on the origins of this kind of idioms. They were divided into threeparts according to the different kinds of languages they came from, different times theyappeared and different meanings they carried.The forth section mainly discussed the meaning of the figure "3" and its idioms, basingon the fact that the myth of Chinese idioms were derived from figures.The fifth section analyzed significance of metaphors, metonymy and ultra metaphor,ultra metonymy contained by the figure "3" of Chinese idioms from the psychologicalcognitive point of view.The sixth section analyzed the philosophy of culture contained by the figure "3" and theidiom of custom culture, rhetoric, culture, ideology and culture contained by the figure "3" ofChinese idioms from the perspective of language culture, and analyzed the unique culturalpsychology and values of the Han nationality. The seventh section made conclusions of this paper.