China was a slave society in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. There are many words about slaves in the existing oracle bone inscriptions.By observing the form of these characters, we can understand their meanings and the cultural meanings contained in them. This paper selects five characters: wei, li, xi, pu and qiang,and analyzes the structure of its oracle bone inscriptions or bronze inscriptions.This paper analyzes the cultural implication of the slaves in the Shang and Zhou dynasties from the characteristics of the slaves' foreign clothing, the characteristics of the slaves' foreign nationality, the methods and ways of the slaves‘ capture, the punishment of the slaves and the unique human sacrifice of the slaves. In the analysis of this paper, “Wei” has evolved from the totem worship of primitive tribes to an important costume feature representing the identity of slaves. “Li” contains the history of the slave‘s resistance to escape under the pressure of slavery. “Xi” is related to the custom of braiding hair of slaves of different nationalities in Shang and Zhou dynasties. Through the structure of “Xi”, we can see the punishment of slaves in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. “Qiang” is the most obvious expression of the bloody slavery system and slaves can not have the essential characteristics of human rights.
The origin of the ‘rainbow’ in oracle bone inscriptions has been debated in the academic circles, but no final conclusion has yet been found. According to what the ‘rainbow’ in the oracle bone inscriptions looks like, scholars roughly divide it into two categories: the ‘snake’ and ‘dragon’. Reviewing previous argumentations on this issue and resting on comprehensive analysis of various views, this paper traces the academic origin of the ‘rainbow’ in the oracle bone inscriptions, and, at the same time, takes the ‘rainbow’ as the ‘dragon with two heads’, one of the description views on it. Furthermore, it, by means of combining with some arguments over the present archaeological results and discussing again relevant points of them, puts forward an argument that the ‘rainbow’ in the oracle bone inscriptions was taken from the image of the ‘dragon’. On the basis of this argument and relevant theories of philology, archaeology and cultural anthropology, it reinterprets the cultural connotation of ‘auspicious and ominous symbols’ and ‘gender metaphor’, both of which are unique to the special natural phenomenon of the ‘rainbow’ in Chinese culture. Analyzing the cultural meanings such as pouring rain, giving birth to an emperor or a sage, fornication and reproduction, etc. also helps to explain the cultural interconnectedness between the ‘rainbow’ and ‘dragon’ or, more specifically, dragon worship-related cultural prototypes of China.
Abundant cultural information is included in the items for names, marriage and family, Zi or Hao, and the description of women in Shuowen, a noted Chinese dictionary. The research and analysis on it will help us understand the customs, morals, social systems, tastes and habits of thought in ancient China, and comprehend the basic characteristics and spirits of Chinese culture.
Objective: To explore the medicinal and health value of tea, to deepen our understanding of using tea as a form of therapy and its cultural connotation, and to provide an effective therapy within the field of natural healing.
Methods: This paper aims to reveal the special value of tea therapy and its cultural connotation by looking back on the history of tea culture and basing the research on traditional Chinese medicine literature. This paper looks back upon the important books of traditional Chinese Medicine and tea theory to analyze the health effects of tea and the historical changes of the methods of using and drinking tea. At the same time we explore the medicinal effect of different varieties of tea and how they affect different groups of people. Through the analysis of the relevant social and cultural background, that is, the unique natural and human environment of China, including the influence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism on how drinking tea improves health, we discuss the unique role of tea culture in improving health.
Conclusion: Using tea therapy to improve health has had a long history in China, and its medicinal history can be traced back to the period of Shen Nong, which was thousands of years ago. The medical books and tea books of the past dynasties all recorded the medicinal effects of tea. Tea is the most common health drink. Tea has been integrated into Chinese Medicine throughout the ages, such as taking medical herbs with tea, or drinking Chinese medicine as tea drinks. Tea therapy can be used by different means, such as oral administration and external use. As for the methods of drinking tea, they have evolved from boiling tea to brewing tea. New tea making methods not only make its application more convenient, it also improves the medicinal value of tea. Now days, there are six main kinds of tea in China, and each of them have their different medicinal effects and the best way to drink them. Tea therapy is not only the substance of tea itself. It also includes the environment (nature and people) in which the tea is drunk and the tea’s cultural connotation. These make up the main components of tea therapy. The natural integration of the physical and cultural qualities of tea is the highest realm of tea therapy.
언어는 문화의 매개체이다. 언어를 통해 우리는 문화를 올바르게 이해할 수 있다. 언어와 문화는 뗄래야 뗄 수 는 밀접한 관계이다. 어휘는 언어의 중요한 일부이고 어휘 속에 많은 문화적 내포를 담고 있다. 어휘를 잘 이해해야 한 나라의 문화를 잘 배우는데 도움이 된다. 본고는 인지의미론에서 자주 거론되는 ‘은유, 환유, 직유’등 개념을 도입하여 중∙한 어휘 중에 비유적 어휘나 어휘 중에 비유적 의미를 가진 어휘를 선정하여 그들의 비유적 의미 유형을 분류하여 분석했다. 그리고 일부 다의어가 비유적 의미를생긴 이유도 의미의 확대(扩大)와 전이(转移)두 차원에서 분석하여 마지막으로 어떤 단어들이 비유적 의미 속에 담겨있는 문화적 내포를 중한문화의 공통성과 이질성의 차원에서 분석했다. 문화적 의미를 분석할 때, 주로 사회풍습이나, 역사나 지역 관념에서 중·한 문화 차원에서 비유의미를 분석했다.
This paper aims to discuss the semantical structure of coordinative compound words between Korean and Chinese. There are four kind of relations between the factors of coordinative words, that is overlapping, complementary, contiguous, inclined etc.
Furthermore, in this paper we analysed the figurative meaning of coordinative words from cognitive linguistics. especially viewed from the metaphor and metonymy points. and analysed the reason of the figurative meaning of coordinative viewed from extension of meaning and semantic shift.
Finally, we discussed the cultural connotation in the coordinative compound words from the social and psychological standard, the semantical compound words can reflect the same and different social culture features of Korea and China. Both Korea and China are seated east Asia, so there are so much same social culture. such as, 'male superiority' etc. We wish this paper will contribute to the study the relation of them.