十二生肖惯用语文化内涵探析

摘要

Chinese idioms are an important part of Chinese vocabulary and its lexical contains colorful cultural connotation. Analyzing contains Chinese zodiac idioms from the material cultural, we can see the ancestors’ survival state of the small-scale peasant economy, and the cultural husbandry phenomenon from taming domesticated animal; from system cultural level we can depict the ancestors ’ interpersonal relationships that pursuit the harmonious and practical cultural psychology; from the cultural psychology we can explore the Han nationality unique way of figurative thinking.%汉语惯用语是汉语词汇的一个重要组成部分，它的词汇意义包含着多姿多彩的文化内涵。对包含十二生肖的惯用语进行分析，从物质文化层可以看到的是先民们以小农经济为主的生存状态，同时还能发现畜牧业从驯化温顺牲畜开始的萌芽状态等文化现象；从制度文化层可以描摹出先民们追求和谐的人际关系和重实用的文化心理；从文化心理层可以探究汉民族独特的具象性思维方式。