Er Yan And The Study Of The Vocabulary Of Folklore

The language and the folk custom culture are the dialectical relationship. The language is the folk custom culture carrier; the folk custom culture is the language connotation. The vocabulary of folklore is the dialectical combination of them. It bears all the aspects of the folk custom culture. As the important source material which contains the folk custom factors, it is very profound to research and criticize. Er Yan is a six volumes book which records folk adages and traces these folk adages in the varying degree to pursue their sources. We have read the massive historical data to analyze the inevitability of Er Yan through discussing the superiority of the social background and the linguistics background, and analyze its contingency through criticize textual about Qian Dazhao's family and researching manner. Thus we have made a conclusion that it is a union of inevitability and contingency.We think the vocabulary is a very important and active factor in the language. It reflects each aspects of social life directly, sensitively and prominently. The folk custom activity is one kind of historical cultural deposit. The folk custom language reflects the characters and phenomenon of different folk custom directly or indirectly. It not only contains folk custom phenomenon, but also contains folklore matters. It is a condensation of the behavior and the matters. we can see directly the close relationship between the language and the folk custom culture. When the folk custom activity tends to stereotype, the vocabulary of folklore has represented fixedly the folklore matters and obtains people's approval, thus to be able to inherit. The words in Er Yan not only manifest the folk custom phenomenon and the relational contents, but also show us the development of folk custom language from the form of seeking the source. And it also has outlined the trace of the development of the folk custom language. Because Er Yan seeks the source and origin referring the classics, it has become the rich historical data for studying the political system, the ancient matters and so on. It has provided the precious academic material. This kind of way which contains explanation and researching the source has had the dictionary nature. It can be considered the embryonic form of ancient dictionary.We have put in order systematically about the way of seeking source and explanation to study the way which is provided by Er Yan. Through seeking the source of this kind of vocabulary, we know better about the origin of the folk custom phenomenon, and which is more precious is the behavior of tracing provide us the psychological factor about the folk custom cultural and the choice of them. Meanwhile, tracing itself becomes the powerful connection between the vocabulary of folklore and the folk custom cultural. Tracing is also the process of studying systematically about the folk custom cultural. The researching of Er Yan helps us to study the important factors of the folk custom language and it also helps us to understand better about the vocabulary of folklore and phenomenon to have a deeper understanding about its own value of the folk custom language.