A Study on Ethno-specified Meaning of Chinese Animal Words

Chinese animal words have rich ethno-specified meanings and are a most special part of Chinese cultural words.These words are an important avenue to understand the history and culture,folk customs and spiritual world of China.The production of the ethno-specified meanings of Chinese animal words has certain motivations,mainly including phonetic,function,similarity and symbolic motivation.The principal mirror images of ethno-specified meanings embodied by Chinese animal words are Han nationality's totem worship,special mode of thinking,and traditional ethical ideas.