| The characters and words in ancient Chinese have always been the focus of scholarsundefined research,and it is the focus of scholars to explore and analyze the evolution of the meaning of words in ancient Chinese.The original meaning of the word since its birth,and its development process,the meaning of each of the terms more or less have a mutual influence,mutual penetration of the relationship,Exploring the origin and evolution of the meaning of words is of great significance for us to better learn ancient Chinese culture,learn ancient Chinese knowledge,and understand the history of ancient Chinese vocabulary development.It has important reference value for us to analyze the extension mechanism of word meaning in accordance with human cognition.As one of the major psychological emotions,joy has become an important part of psychological words in ancient Chinese vocabulary.This paper explores the origin and development of the meaning of "joy",and concludes that the law of evolution is of great significance not only to the study of the evolvement of the meaning of psychological words,but also to the study of the evolution of the meaning of other words in ancient Chinese.In this paper,the main source of the corpus is "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" and "t he new annex of Shuo Wen Jie Zi",which is added according to the "Yu Cha pter" "Guang Yun ",referring to the explanation of the word meaning of "A N ote on Shuo Wen Jie Zi""Dictionary of Chinese Characters"and "Chinese Dictio nary".In order to find out 31 monosyllabic words which have the meaning of"joy",and which are relatively abundant in the development of the word meani ng,this paper explores the origin of the meaning of "joy" and the way of its development.According to its original meaning,the words collected are divided into two categories.The first category is monosyllabic words with the meanin g of "joy",which are "Pan","Tao","Yang","Hai","Chang","He"and"Le","Kai,""Yan","Mei","Xu","Mao","Xin",etc.The second category is a monosyllabic word wit h the meaning of "joy".There are "Kan","Yu","Cong","Xi","Tao",Yi","Yu","Huan","Xin","Xi","Yu","Shuo","Yue","Kuai","Tai","Dui",etc.The paper is divided into three parts.The first part,tracing the origin of the meaning of joy.This paper mainly probes into the source of monosyllabic words with the meaning of "joy",explores the source meaning of the meaning of "joy",combs out the extension path of the meaning of the word,and according to the nature of the word meaning of the source meaning,The main source fields of "joy" are summarized: action domain,body area,body domainand others.The second part analyzes the development of the meaning of Joy.This paper mainly studies the monosyllabic words with the original meaning of "joy",explores the developmental meaning of the meaning of "joy",combs out the development path of the word meaning,and according to the nature of the word meaning of the development meaning,In this paper,the author sums up the main developing domains of the meaning of "joy",which are the field of body appearance,the field of mind,the field of action and the and the substitution and extinction of the meaning of joy.The third part,the general law of the development of the meaning source of Joy.Synthesizing the research results of "joy" meaning source domain and development domain,finding out the common points among the evolution of each word meaning,summing up the common law existing in the source development of "joy" meaning.To provide some reference and reference for the study of the meaning evolution of other psychological words. |