"dragon" Allusions Origin Study

Chinese allusions have a long history, every allusion includes lots of contents.Many current researches on Chinese allusions based on the perspective of culture,and a few researches on the perspective of linguistics.The essay mainly talks about the allusions of "Long"with the method of diachronic comparisons.The evolutions of forms and meaning of the allusions of "Long"will be spelt out by lots of detailed examples,which are from the Retrieval System of Chinese Classics.The allusions are rich in content.We divide these allusions into seven kinds due to their meaning:character description,object description,behavior,life dueto their meaning:character description,object description,behavior,life and emotion,talent and enterprise,country,immortal.We will choose one or two allusions that are often used or familiar to us to analyze at the third chapter. The confirmation of the allusions is based on dictionary of previous allusions, dictionary of Chinese allusion; the examples of the essay are mailnly from Han Ji retrieval.The essay refers to Chinese dictionary and Ci Yuan when we analyze the form and meaning of allusions. We find the missing of the form according to these materials.