Study On Chinese Ancient Agricultural Culture Refracted In Chinese Characters

Language is the bond which contacts the social members, and it is the tool that the construction of national culture depends on and the national culture relies on for transmitting. Chinese characters are the writing and symbolic systems which mark the language of Han nationality, and they reflect and inherit the historical and brilliant Chinese culture with the form of visual symbols, and they can make up the limitation that it is not easy for Chinese language to preserve the sound information. Chinese characters have the function of cultural mirror image and cultural inheritance, so we can explore the cultural information hidden in Chinese characters prisms through them. Agriculture is the most important production department in ancient China, and Chinese characters prisms reflect on certain ancient agricultural cultural information.In the introduction part, the thesis outlines the topic’s origin, the current situation of research on Chinese characters and agricultural culture, the significance of the research and the research approaches. In the part of Chinese characters and agricultural material culture, the thesis discusses the Chinese ancient crops, the farm tools, the irrigation and water conservancy, and the places storing grains through Chinese characters. In the part of Chinese characters and agricultural institutional culture, the thesis discusses the Chinese ancient farmland system, the taxes system, the agricultural officials system, the farming system, and the sacrificial ceremonies through Chinese characters. In the part of Chinese characters and agricultural psychological culture, the thesis studies the psychology of worship to gods and things of Chinese ancient people, the overall thinking of heaven, earth and man, the thought of Wu xing and Ying yang. In a word, the thesis studies Chinese ancient agricultural cultural information which lies in Chinese characters, including material culture, institutional culture and psychological culture.