Semantic Analysis And Interpretation Of Culture Of "Ming" And The Words Include "Ming"

As one of the Chinese Associative Compound Characters,the meaning of "Ming" is keeping prominent on epistemlogy durning Chinese traditional phylosophy especially confucianism andtaoism.This article draws out ten meanings from thirty-eight meanings,which contain common semanteme"[+light/+brightness]".Meanwhile semantic feature of "Ming" and the extending relation of the ten meanings are important in this article.When analysing the rherotic way of "Ming" phrases meanings,author concludes two ways:metonymy and analogy.Therefore the article explains "Ming" and its phrases in two ways:synonymy and antonymy.