The Semantic Analysis And Interpretation Of Culture Of "Chicken" And The Words Including "Chicken"

"Chicken" is a zodiac animal, like the other twelve animals, which contains rich cultural connotation. First, Targeting on the words include "Chicken" for the study.The authoritative dictionary of ancient and modern "chicken" meanings were summarized, and combined with the Grand Chinese Dictionary in the "chicken" constitutive words, combing the semantic meaning of "chicken".I found that "Chicken" although have only one meaning in the dictionary,which is a kind of poultry, but under the single meaning representation,has shown rich culture and reflect the semantic field of culture scattered, each involving semantic field a small number of reference configurations words.Secondly, the use of metaphor theory, parametric configuration of a four-character idioms grid as the main object of analysis, focusing on selected representative part of the semantic field of relationship analysis, and explore the original meaning, find the construction mechanism of them.Finally, from the "Chicken" to reflect the formation of ginseng culture.through the analyzing the totemic beliefs, worship of the sun, a folk culture, four kinds of activities and cultural phenomenon, interpretation of Chinese traditional culture of chicken worship.