The Development Of Appellation Euphemism Of Chinese Wives

The meaning of Chinese wives’ appellation euphemism is self-abasing terms or the respectful appellation words for wives in Chinese ancient family system. This article treats the Chinese appellation euphemism as the object of research, and illustrates every euphemism with explanation, description, comparison methods in a historical angle, and analysis this variety of appellation euphemism easily. Then summaries the cognitive style of metaphor and metonymy of Chinese wives’ appellation euphemism. At last, analysis the reasons of Chinese wives’ appellation euphemism circulating and changing in different ages from the aspects of economy,politic, society, and so on.This article illustrates and describes Chinese wives’ appellation euphemism in their changing process from the aspects of the time of their appearance, their euphemism meaning appearance and referent and frequency of utilization and context,circulating period, meaning changing and suitable text. In this meantime, it analysis and discusses cognitive style metaphor and metonymy of Chinese wives’ appellation euphemism with real explanations. It can construct the conceptions of wives’ metaphorically with the characteristics of plants and daily necessities, or reflect wives’ identical conception through the standards of society, politic, and family. It can metonymy noumena and wives by the relation of parts and entirety, or parts and parts, and concludes “unit-category” metonymy, tools metonymy and location metonymy.The reasons of why Chinese wives’ appellation euphemisms were used and changed in particular period need to be analyzed in situations, mainly analyzed in cultural angle. “The order of superiority and inferiority” was the main stream in ancient China, and this was the main reason why Chinese wives’ appellation euphemisms were appeared. In Song and Ming these two dynasties, plebification literature was booming and flourishing, it made Chinese wives’ appellation euphemisms developed rapidly. While society’s change can beat the traditional order,and eliminates a big part of Chinese wives’ appellation euphemisms, so there still needs new Chinese wives’ appellation euphemisms to be made in the future.