The evolution of lexemes of the commonly-used words in the early Ming Dynasty ——centering on Xun Shi Ping Hua(Popular Stories with Admonitions)

Yuan and Ming Dynasty was an important phase in the development of Chinese vocabulary. Except a large number of words of special features at that time,there appeared groups of commonly-used words that became dominant in the diachronic replacement of lexemes. In Xun Shi Ping Hua( Popular Stories with Admonitions),the contrast between classic and vernacular languages objectively reflects the new replacement of the old lexemes among the commonly-used words in the beginning of Ming Dynasty. This paper,selecting nine groups of words,further reveals the evolution in each group of words and their dominant roles in Yuan and Ming Dynasty through synchronic description and diachronic analysis.