Exploring Life-and-Death View Of Japanese People From Japanese Proverbs

Proverbs are language forms with their own national characteristics that people have gradually formed over the course of time in the context of their own culture,combined with their own culture and language expression.Proverbs are derived from the people’s daily experience.In a sense,it expresses the Japanese outlook on life.Analyzing proverbs is not only an understanding of the simple meaning of proverbs,but also an understanding of this language and culture."Birth,old age,sickness and death" in Buddhist terms refers to the four kinds of pain that cannot be escaped in a person’s life.It explains that birth,old age,sickness and death are an indispensable process in life experience.It is a natural law of human life from beginning to end,one that cannot be changed.Life course.The knowledge of "birth,old age,sickness and death" is the knowledge of human beings themselves.Using the proverb of "birth,old age,sickness and death" as a carrier,to explore the Japanese people’s knowledge and understanding of "birth,old age,sickness and death" can have a deeper understanding of the Japanese view of life and death.This article refers to the relevant research on proverbs and the concept of life and death at home and abroad,summarizes the dictionary definitions of birth,old age,sickness and death,and systematically integrates the specific content of birth,old age,sickness and death according to the dictionary explanation,eliminating the semantics that do not include the concept of life and death,which is convenient The next step is to search for the content of proverbs.This article searches and sorts out 281 proverbs about birth,old age,sickness and death from the "Dictionary of Story Proverbs" and "Continued Story Proverbs Dictionary".From the perspective of the combination of language and culture,this article explores and analyzes the proverbs about birth,old age,sickness and death from multiple angles.Summarize the following views of life and death: life first view of life and death;transcendence of life and death view;happy knowledge of life and death view of destiny and fearless view of life and death.Have a clearer understanding of Japanese culture and the Japanese view of life and death.Life and death proverbs can reflect Japan’s unique characteristics of tolerance and contradiction.Tolerance means that Japan absorbs different cultures in its development process to promote the development of the country;contradiction means that many of the cultural contrasts that it absorbs are found to be contradictory,But the Japanese can always reconcile it for their own use.