Ancient Animal Description Language Research

Animal description in Chinese language as the research object in this paper, to define it, and research its developing situation from ancient, medieval and modern times, discuss the characteristics and the development of animal description language.Through the three time animal language comparative study, ancient animal description language is relatively simple and surface:description is given priority to with allegory for animal morphology, description of morphology is453cases,320cases of allegory accounted for70.64%, adjectives is less, numerals used more but is not accurate, color description focused on the single color is given priority to with red green yellow and black, the description form of behaviour in animals is single. Than on the ancient, animal description language of medieval has improved:description of animal morphology, direct description increase, allegory declined accounting for45.18%, use adjectives describing increase in the number of cases and adjectives, the use of numerals is accurately and expanded, description of color and multicolor has increased, description of animal behavior is more detail than ancient, use adverbs of degree limit specification description language. Compared with medieval, modern animals description tend to be more objective and rich:direct description is more used for animal morphology, allegory accounted for28.26%and the proportion reduced, the number and the application of adverbs Increase, color words and adjectives is rich.Animal description developed rapidly in ancient times to the medieval, the development of slow in medieval to modern times, because the first animals depicted, basic no specific language and consciousness, select middle corpus is highly specific to animals, when describing level with observation ability and practical experience to match, If there is no new term new ideas, development will slow down.