外语学院-英汉基本颜色词中文化内涵的对比研究(编辑修改稿)

外语学院-英汉基本颜色词中文化内涵的对比研究(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

rtant color for Chinese is the red color. In China, red color is our country’s basic cultural color. It shows the Chinese material and spirit pursuit. It is the color of good luck and is used for decoration and wedding dressing, the brides always wear a red cheongsam or a red wedding dress at wedding ceremony, because in the Chinese traditions, the red color stands for the propitious sign. It is a lucky symbol which can bring happiness and make the brides and grooms’ life better and better. For another example, the money to children or bonuses should be wrapped in red paper, is called by in Chinese Spring Festival “red envelope”. The publication of the list of the candidates of the results to be published list of college enrollment and advanced character is called “red board”. Red is also the color of fire, and the fire gives hot warm booming, thriving and flourishing. Thus it also contains fortune of people, including the success of the cause, the smoothness of the career, the rapid increase of wealth. For example, good luck is called “red luck”. The human condition is very good, and someone who is very popular with others, which are called “being red”. Work, study, production, operations and other activities achieve success at the beginning, which is called “begin with a red door”, and so on. Another example, at the APEC meeting of Shanghai, all the leaders wear the Chinese traditional clothes. All the clothes are of 13 the same style, but the colors are different. Chinese leader chooses the red clothes, while most of the western leaders wear clothes of other kinds of colors. From this example, we can see that the important connotation of red for the Chinese in various aspects of the intercultural munication. Red is also the color of the “revolution”, the banner of revolution is a “red flag”. Red symbolizes the revolution of the proletariat, MarxismLeninism, socialism and munism, the Communist Party. As a result, the Communist Party’s revolutionary regime is called “red political power”, revolutionary base is called “red base” or “red zone”, leadership of the Communist Party of the revolutionary army is called the “red army”, and a high degree of loyalty to the revolutionary cause has been hailed as “red heart”. These expressions have the typical characteristics of Chinese culture. However, in the Chinese culture, red also symbolizes the meaning of envy or jealousy. In Chinese “red eye”, “illness of red eye” means envy and jealousy. Yellow Yellow occupies a very important position in ancient China, is the representative the rights and the rule at the all dynasties and the color of the royal family. For example, the basic color of the emperor’s clothing is yellow. “Yellow robe” is the robes of the emperor, and the emperor ascended the throne called “with yellow robe”, and so on. Yellow is influenced by ancient Chinese feudal superstition, and it is also the symbol of the gods of heaven or the underworld. For example, Acting in the days of the election depends on “yellow calendar”. “Good day in yellow calendar”, it is appropriate to act in the good days. “Yellow paper” is the paper that people fete for the dead. “Yellow spring” refers to the underworld or someplace like this. The above is formed by the impact of ancient Chinese history and cultural thinking. Yellow is also the symbol of vigilance. Yellow is bright eyecatching, usually used to reminder from the attention and alertness. For example, trackman repair and do the maintenance work on the highway, always dress in yellow clothes, which aims at attracting the drivers’ attention. Before the traffic lights turn from green to red light, yellow light will get light firstly, in order to alert vehicles and pedestrians “red light 14 would light up and the road is about to cutoff the line。 “Yellow alert” is a preliminary alarm。 “yellow line” is the yellow lines prohibit or restrict parking on both sides of the road. To help the user quickly identify and classify mercial telephone number, phonebook is always printed by yellow paper, known as the “Yellow Pages”, and so on. It is the modern times that we connect yellow with pornography fornication, corruption and degeneration because of the “yellow back” in English. So there are expressions, such as “yellow novel”, “yellow movie”, etc. In fact, in English yellow does not directly express the meaning of “pornography”, but the implied meaning of “sensational”. For example, “yellow journalism” means “irresponsible wanton exaggeration, rendering the news reports.” Yellow also shows the immature and ignorant young people, for example, “yellowhaired girl” or “yellowmouthed boy” in Chinese is also often used to represent. Green Green puts people in mind of nature, green grasslands, green grass in Chinese, so it means quiet, nature, and health. For example, green food, green industry, green Olympics and the Green Revolution. Green symbolizes life, and therefore also a symbol of harmony and peace. So people in the traffic signal system with the “green light” to road are allowed to pass. Thus the “green light” has the meaning of approval and release. For example, “Only studio heads can greenlight new movies.” “We are ready to rebuild the our house, we’ re just waiting for the green light from the Council”. However, green is also used to mean “humble” or “of bad reputation”. For example, “green hat” is not necessarily a green hat but often indicates a cuckold. In Chinese, the color of blue can be replaced by “qing”. “Woman in qing buliding” refers to a woman driven to be a prostitute, for “qing building” in Chinese often implies a brothel instead of a building of green color. In China, especially in the feudal society, the dress of the government official on a lower level was regularized to be green, so it also symboliz。