Gender Roles Reflected in Chinese Botanical Fixed Expressions
Chu-Lin Chang
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Gender Roles Reflected in Chinese Botanical Fixed Expressions

Analysis from six dimensions

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In the past few decades, we have witnessed an intellectual movement that metaphor, not only serves as a literal ornament, is a powerful tool to reveal people''s cognitive process and reflect how people think. As a human being, the property of sex is basic to all people. We metaphorically project the human sexual cognition on the animate and inanimate world. In other words, plant names are not only used to indicate plants but also human beings, males and females. For example, yu4 shu4 lin2 feng1 jade-tree-near-wind; a young man with outstanding appearance and talent. Botanical fixed expressions...