Linguistics Under The Chinese Spring Festival Couplets

When we say "Spring Festival couplets", it mainly contains two different meanings:One is the folklore in the sense of "spring", namely a cultural phenomenon; One is the stylistics sense of "spring", it is also a kind of literary genre. The general couplets culture takes the stylistics meaning as the connotation, the couplets on folklore sense as extension one. This thesis tries to explore the couplets from the linguistics and function angles, and reveal intrinsic cultural characteristics and structure characteristics of Spring Festival couplets as the special Chinese language form.The body of the thesis is divided into four parts as following.The first part discusses the sentence structure and meaning of Spring Festival couplets. At first, in the view of single league we analysis the words, sentences, focusing on five seven-character correspond to the number, and the same nominal as the main characteristics of structure,. Secondly, the relationship between the small clauses of single union will be analyzed and the symmetry of the parts of speech and structure will be discussed. Finally, the symmetrical beauty of the fluctuation interference from the relationship between the content and function will be analyzed.The second part of the thesis focuses on the structure of rhythmic spring. The phonological beauty mainly displays in rhythm of rhythmic exquisite. This chapter, according to different words for Spring Festival couplets, analyzes the pause rhythm, then the high frequency interference couplets syllables, and the word of the emergence of the word high-frequency syllable was discussed. The real sound expresses the potential emotional function. The rhythm end of the Chinese poem bases the emotional pace of poem. The high-frequency of the last character in the festival couplet exist for the expression of joy and the need of emotion express. In the end the Spring Festival couplets syllable well rule is analyzed. The beauty of Spring festival couplet was built by the use of different tones of different rules.The third part of the thesis is about the culture connotation of spring festival couplets. The language is the fossil of culture. As a window we can get the trace of development of society and culture with a long history in China. At first the spring festival couplets shows every aspects of Chinese life. We can see the Chinese traditional ethical concepts, Then we can feel the faith of harmony of China. Furthermore we can know the poem character of Chinese people hiding in the Spring festival couplets. At last the historical development of the Chinese social and cultural change and value view transformation can be shown by the analysis of spring festival couplets change.The fourth part of the thesis is the meme analysis of spring festival couplets'spreading. This chapter uses the theory of meme and treats the spring festival couplets as a kind of meme. At first the reason of spring festival couplets meme was discussed. The main aspects of mental material, social material and reality were analyzed. Then we study the spring festival couplets vehicle with the view of language skill, forming skill and emotion skill. At last we get familiar with the spring festival couplets'functional meme from the angles of joy expression, hoping, education, advertisement window and time reflection.