The Investigation And Dissertation Of Wei Yan

The initial meaning of WEI is dancing, and the meaning breeds the meaning of music of HE and music of army.Micro small righteousness and hidden meaning, darkness, appeared earlier in the literature, is an important meanings of the word WEI. THE early meaning of speech main has three : entertain, sound, narration. In The Zhou dynasty,speaking is the main meanings of the YAN, YAN has basic have the semantics associated with speech ACTS.IN The pre-Qin period,WEIYAN has two connotation.The first meaning refers to the speech way,means that talk in an implicit way:in the course of speech,the delivery of intention is indirect,and not direct.The second meaning refers to the feature of words and expressions,means the words have the feature of Elegant simplicity,the words are accurate contracted,and the meaning of words are rich casual attitudes.In the activity of communicating with the gods,the ceremony of witch dance has the medium attribute in the communication of witch and god,and make the communication of witch and god has the feature of indirection.In turtle bone divination activity, divination program blocks the officer of divination directly communicate with the gods, the officer and the gods directly presents the characteristics of indirect mental communication. When the king with the help of divination results to enhance the validity of its intention to, the idea of king Shang dynasty transport also so with indirect characteristic. The divination officer by writing the wrong judgment of the king Shang dynasty, and using the divination mysterious authority to force the power of the king,and the related writing of the result of intention is becoming one of the earliest form of Wei Yan.In the course of the performance of music and ceremony of the Zhou dynasty, the ritual ceremony become the medium of communication between the host and guest,the etiquette ceremony in the process of communication between the host and guest make the communication has the characteristics of indirect. Music activities of the subject requires the understanding of ritual and etiquette as the basis of the rules to fully understand the rich semantics of the prayer, ritual alteration of righteousness is also presented with the characteristics of the dark and implicit.The Zhou dynasty music system make the speech behavior of advising has the characteristics of explicit and implicit projection. In the course of recite the poem of the blind man and the course of reciting the history of activities,the liegeman and the monarch using the understanding of the poem and the history to complete the communication.The involvement of the words of the poem and the history,make the speech behavior of advising has the effect of euphemistic.During the CHUNQIU period, using the object to explain the the Book of Changes gradually evolve one kind of speaking way.The narrator using the object to explain their thought,its rational judgment of real-world events, logic reasoning, and humanities concepts with the help of elucidating the toddler analysis and indirect effectively. Using the meaning of the object to transmit the idea of expositor,make the course has the characteristics of indirect.In the spring and autumn period activity, the idea of subject and both parties can use poem effectively passed out, the two sides with the assigned to resign poem, understanding to complete the mind communication, therefore had the obvious feature of euphemistic.The stylistic rules and layout of historical records of Lu(state), "Chun Qiu",are derived from the Yin and Zhou period musicenvironment,on the one hand,it is the embodiment of the characteristics of Wei Yan in Yin Zhou period, on the other hand,it also announced the Wei Yan elements from the speech event to the tendency of the written language transfer.The stylistic rules and layout of "Chun Qiu",has the ceremony meaning of Zhou dynasty.By means of The stylistic rules and layout,the words of "Chun Qiu" have more meaning and have the characteristics of Implicit euphemism.And this situation show that the elements of Wei Yan has transform from the religious music instrument section program to the text in the form of the language recognized gradually.Late in the Chun Qiu period of the education activity of Confucius,Confucius began to make summary on the principles of language use, the master of generalization of words express the situation of following the rules, the idea of “word expressing the significance is enough ”,“the meaningful words ”, the verbal expression in the form of etiquette for the medium properties revealed, showed that people’s perception of Wei Yan elements has entered a new stage, the elements of Wei Yan has transform form the religious music instrument section program to the text in the form of the language recognized gradually,and have been revealed in theory form, this also marks the initial generation of Wei Yan theory.At the same time,in the course of teaching of "the book of songs", "Chun Qiu", "the Book of Changes",Confucius enriched the poetry, "Chun Qiu",and "the Book of Changes" especially DE meaning connotation,so that the ceremony and music of the literature language semantic showed the feature of Wei Yan of Han dynasty scholars.