| Idioms is an important part of a language,having a vivid national culture attribute.The cultural feature of the Idioms' semantic including its generation mechanism and culture mechanism,is the most obvious part as a condensation of national culture.It is the key to analyze and interpret the relation between idioms and culture according to the theory of cultural semantics.The lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting,known as the four arts of the literati,are the result of the experience and wisdom of the Han nationality as well as the unique national culture type of the Han nationality.According to its specific cultural attribute characteristics,the culture of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy &painting first includes all kinds of material products related to the activities of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy and painting,such as lyre-playing,chess,Chinese brush,ink,paper,ink-stone,pigment etc.It also includes all kinds of spiritual products associated with unique romance activities,such as auditory symbol system(Guqin music),regular symbol system(rules of chess)and visual symbol system(painting and calligraphy works),such as ancient classics and bibliography systemrecording and interpreting the unique romance cultural content,especially the language symbol system including additional unique cultural value of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting.The lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting arts have gone through a long process of development and evolution,the main body of cultural cause has the particularity of stratum,both focused and embodied on the Chinese system especially the idioms system of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy &painting with the abundant cultural connotation and the independent cultural value.On the one hand,the idioms of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting complete accumulation and innovation as a natural language symbol culture,on the other hand they are used in the formulation of the cultural value and thought patterns of Han nationality,becoming the important path of Han nationality in the process of decoding the unique romance culture.Based on the angle of cultural semantics,the paper elects the idioms related to the four arts—lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting,including idioms,proverbs,locutions and allegorical sayings,as the research object,observing the way of being and semantic expression in dictionaries and ancient books and records.The paper reveals the cultural background of idioms,explains its cultural semantics,refined culture value of the idioms in knowledge civilization,values and thought patterns,presents the cultural semantic features.At the same time,this paper discusses and summarizes the cognitive model,cognitive laws,variation and inheritance of the idioms.The paper is divided into six chapters,the main content is as follows:The introduction shine lights on the topic of the research on the idioms of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting,expounds the theoretical basis and research status of cultural semantics and idioms,analyzes the cultural semantics value of idioms of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting,and explains the research methods and corpus sources.Chapter 1: Development process and Types of Lyre-Playing,Chess,Calligraphy& Painting Idioms.The idioms of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting based on ancient Chinese Guqin,game of go,calligraphy and painting,whose development and evolution have forced specific expression of the idioms of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting.The value orientation and aesthetic psychology of the Han nationality culture,which is characterized by hierarchic culture,is the psychological basis of semantic expression.As well as,the cognitive mode of classification is the thinking generated base and pattern of idioms of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy &painting.Chapter 2: Sciential Civilization of Lyre-Playing,Chess,Calligraphy & Painting Idioms.This chapter explores the knowledge civilization about Qin,Qi calligraphy and painting,including the forms of the characteristics and specific contents,the relevant techniques and rules,historical figures and events.Chapter 3: Value Concept of Lyre-Playing,Chess,Calligraphy & Painting Idioms.This chapter presents the poetic life of Chinese literati,who taking elegance as interest and constructing the personality cultivation with elegance as the positive value.It presents the character pursuit of diligence and innovation in the field of art,and constructs the value concept of diligence and positivity of the Han nationality outside the field of art.It presents the spiritual state of the unity of things and self-leading to the artistic realm and constructs the aesthetic standard of the system balance of the avenue to simplicity.Chapter 4: Metonymic and Metaphorical Cognition of Lyre-Playing,Chess,Calligraphy & Painting Idioms.This chapter reveals the systematicness and combined characteristics of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting conception by combing the concept and using the level analysis method.It explains essential character of analogism by analyzing the referential metonymy.On this basisit discusses the idioms' semantic processing and comprehension,taking lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting idioms for example.Chapter 5: Variation and Inheritance of Lyre-Playing,Chess,Calligraphy &Painting Idioms.This chapter discusses the types,causes and the relationships of idioms' variants which produced from the process of diachronic inheritance and synchronic communication of solidification.The lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy &painting idioms realize the stable inheritance of language and culture as cultural symbols,which is the result of the special form of idioms and the strong cultural characteristics of lyre-playing,chess,calligraphy & painting.In the conclusion part,it summarizes the core viewpoints of the thesis,and points out the inevitable bias in the research and the direction that can be further developed in the 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