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Publication Date: 1975
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Use of the Four Seasonal Words
Sun, Teresa Chi-ching
Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 10, 1, 14-19, Feb 75
Discusses the cultural features of "Spring" and "Autumn" in Chinese. Their meanings range from references to happiness and love to seasons, crops and farming, to the representation of a year's time and one's age. They are used in poetry and as noun compounds for titles of history books. (SC)
Descriptors: Chinese, Creative Teaching, Figurative Language, Lexicology, Literary Influences, Symbolism
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