The Study On Singing Language Of "The History Of Three Kingdoms"

Singing language is the language that expresses praising and extolling. Nowadays, there are a few studies on singing language. We can know the Chinese language and culture of the age in Three Kingdoms partly by the studying on singing language of The History of Three Kingdoms.The paper was divided into four parts.The preface explains why we choose this thesis and show the definition of singing language, and finally illustrates the thinking and method about the study.In chapter one, we seek the singing language of The History of Three Kingdoms exhaustively. We get774singing languages and353key words of every category. According to the contents of praising we divide the singing language into some category: the category of character, the category of intelligence, the category of appearance and manner, the category of reputation and status, and other category. Analyzing every category, we can know that people in the age of three kingdoms value the character and ability seriously that related to the sense of worth and background in that age. The rhetoric of the singing language of The History of Three Kingdoms contents that: hyperbole, simile, parallelism, antithesis, metonymy. Simile has the highest frequency. There have two reasons that why the straight-present method is the most important description method.In second chapter, we seek and analyze some synonyms. We know that there have some new words besides some inheritance words in the singing language of The History of Three Kingdoms by screening some of which haven not been included by the great Chinese Dictionary.In third chapter, we analyze the important words in the singing language of The History of Three Kingdoms. According the social relation and the trait of the singing language of The History of Three Kingdoms we know that slavishness is the root of the royalism which restricting the advance of society.