Research On The Idiom Culture Of Tree

The vocabulary system of language is a mark of the classification of the real world and life experience.Language is a prism which reflects the culture.Language,especially the vocabulary system,can observe various signs of culture,such as the material culture,the institutional culture and the psychological culture.As the symbol of culture,tree idioms reflect the cultural content of trees.First,tree idioms reflect the material function of the tree.Trees not only have the role of materials and decoration,but also can produce rich economic and ecological benefits.According to the growth characteristics of trees,the working people have accumulated rich experience in planting trees.These experiences have been passed down in the form of tree farming,which can still guide the agricultural activities nowadays.Secondly,tree idioms reflect people's ideas.It reflects people's thinking about the relationship between people and the nature,people and self,and the relationship between people and others.In a conclusion,it reflects the natural view of forestation as a blessing,the view of the importance of speaking and action and the concept of respecting the homeland.The tree idiom also reflects the thinking mode of the Han nationality's metaphorical cognition.Metaphor is the core thinking mode of tree culture idioms.Trees get the social and cultural meaning through metaphor.The excavation of its metaphorical meaning can directly show the system of tree metaphor and better understand the connotation of tree culture.