A_Study_on_the_Color_Terms_in_Chinese_Song_Poems

Culture
A
mong the objects
described and involved by “red” in A Completed Collection of Chinese
Song Poems , although there are a few objects not necessarily related to females, most of the objects described are related to females, such as curtains, boudoir bedding, furnishings, paper cutting, embroidery, letterhead, red candles, censers, wine, lanterns, etc. This is the most typical pragmatic feature in the use of “red” in Chinese Song poems. There is a very prominent relationship
A Study on the Color Terms in Chinese Song Poems Dong Jia
China Social Sciences Press June 2022 78.00 (CNY)
hinese
Culture C
often show the characteristics of homogeneity and isomorphism, that is, the same predicates and adjectives are used to describe and modify them or act as metaphors. Red flowers stand for flowers. According to botanical surveys, white flowers are the most common in nature. However, we should note that botanical surveys are made on the whole world, thus many wildflowers in rare places were included. In human society, ornamental flowers are often favored. As red flowers are bright in color, they easily stimulate people’s senses and impress upon them. Therefore, when it comes to flowers, people tend to associate them with red flowers. As a result, “red” is often indirectly associated with females through the metonymy of flowers.
This chapter makes an in-depth analysis of two usages of the color term “red,” that is, the use of “red” alone in verses and the phrases with colors formed by “red.”Overall, “red” was actively used in A。