Study On The Proverbs For "Ancient Proverbs"

Ancient Proverbs Written by scholar Du Wenlan in the Qing Dynasty is included in the total set of proverbs from the first Sixteen Century ago to Qing Dynasty. This book is compiled by classic historical order of schedule, with more stringent standards and compiled principles. Confucianism Liu Yusong in Qing Dynasty highly praised "Ancient Proverbs". He said: "(The book) Picks proverbs detailed, evaluates proverbs very rigorous and its style is close and revisions are so precise and appropriate. The book collects set of various homes'advantages, but avoid other homes'defects. Its contents are rich, so all scholars agree that'Ancient Proverbs'is the masterpiece."From the above,we can see that " ancient proverbs " in terms of the collected value beyond the previous works and it is also a very good materials to study ancient proverbs .There is a long history to study ancient proverbs. The paper Study of Proverbs for "Ancient Proverbs" use of a relatively new theory of Chinese vocabulary, with five chapters on the definition of proverbs saying, semantics, syntax, source, usage and interpretation of proverbs, discussion on the meaning in dictionaries.The first chapter define the proverbs in "ancient proverbs". Through the proverbs from chants phrases, popular idioms, twisters, we define the proverb as a saying has experience to pass on offspring and have non-two-two rhythm style. It has the features of knowledge, popularity, relatively fixed features and so on." In the second chapter, we discuss proverbs semantics on semantic structure, semantic clustering and classification. Proverbs combination of semantic structure is divided into two categories. They are called combined proverbs and mixed proverbs. Proverbs'semantic clustering is divided into synonymous proverbs and antisense proverbs. In accordance with the contents of the proverb, proverbs are divided into seven categories: agriculture class, weather class, geography class, endemic class, life knowledge class, common sense class, self-cultivation class. In the third chapter, we divided proverbs into"single sentence saying","complex sentences","tightening type"than analyze and describe all types of proverbs .In the fourth chapter ,we discuss the sources and use of proverbs, proverbs come from the spoken language and written language which comes from poem ,written proverbs, sayings and allusions. The use of the proverb, mainly reflected in both poetry and idioms. In chapter five, we focus on wrong Proverbs in "Ancient Proverbs" and attempt to correct them; Discussion on questionable proverbs'interpretation in the dictionaries with exploring meaning through words, documents and versions of research is to find the better interpretation.