Researching The Vagueness And Metaphor Of The Chinese Sense Organ Words

The sense organ is an important medium that the mankind obtains information, sense organ or felling is people's main path of understanding the world. As an important sub-system of the Chinese word system, the Chinese sense organ words reflect the Chinese people's understanding and thinking of the world. Actually, researching the lexical characters and changes of the Chinese sense organ words, is also to demonstrate the traditional thinking and the Chinese culture.The so-called Chinese sense organ words refer to those words relevant to human sense organ, sense organ behavior and the sense organ property, which can be divided into vision words, hearing words, taste words, smell words and touching words according to traditional"five feelings"classification method. Then these five parts each can be subdivided into sense organ words, sense organ behavior words and the sense organ property words. There are about 58 basic Chinese sense organ words in Chinese. They record the process of Chinese people's understanding of the world. At the same time, as a gather, the Chinese sense organ words also show the general character of the category: vagueness and metaphor meaning.The vagueness of the Chinese sense organ words is the synchronic and static description of its lexical character, which mainly refer to the vagueness of the sense organ behavior words and the sense organ property words, its reason can be traced back to the complexity of human's physiology and the gradual change of the sense organ behavior and property. In fact, the vagueness of the Chinese sense organ words can show Chinese people's whole, intuition thinking mode.