Study On Adjectives In Thirty Kinds Of Zaju Printed In The Yuan Dynasty

Adjectives are three basic parts of speech in Chinese, one of its degree of development of language from the reflection of the level of development. The Yuan Dynasty is an important period in modern Chinese. Thirty kinds of Zaju Printed in the Yuan Dynasty is the earliest and exclusive select works of the poetic drama by the Yuan Dynasty. At the same time, it is one of important materials to study Chinese language in the Yuan Dynasty.In this paper, the division of the structure is the standard to classified the adjectives. The total number of the adjectives in Thirty kinds of Zaju Printed in the Yuan Dynasty is 1052, which includes Monosyllabic adjectives of 297, Two-syllable adjectives of 515, Multi-syllable adjectives of 240. The second and the third chapters are a detailed analysis of its features. The attributive and the predicate is mainly done by Monosyllabic adjectives. Two-syllable adjectives is mainly to serve as the predicate and the adverbial. Multi-syllable adjectives does the adverbial mainly. The Conclusion summarizes some new features of the adjectives in the Yuan Dynasty. Because Zaju is a theatrical play, its language requires a sense of rhythm and rhythm.,and the words in the language are more symmetrical.At the same time, with the diversity of the linguistic, there is a lot of variants. Because of this, Two-syllable and Multi-syllable adjectives has a lot of use. In addition, because Zaju is performed for the general public, its language is easy to understand, and also is humor, for some foreign words, dialect words and spoken words appearing in Zaju scripts. It is made by the special backgrounds of politics and culture in the Yuan Dynasty.