A Study on Emotional Metaphors in Yellow Emperor

Xiaoying Li^1,2

¹School of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
²Foreign Languages School, Sichuan Medical University, Luzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ojml.2015.55042                

Abstract

The theoretical system of the medical classic Yellow Emperor reflects the cultural levels of the Warring States Period, and social history, and science and technology development long after the Qin and Han dynasty, and it also reflects the Chinese traditional mode of thinking. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, study on the book Yellow Emperor’s emotional metaphor paradigm, cognitive mechanisms and meaning construction, it is found that emotional metaphor is a more general theory which explains the important thinking of physiology, pathology, therapy and health, etc., but it is also found that as long as it is related to disease and health, there will appear magical implication of emotional metaphors.

Keywords

Yellow Emperor, Emotion Metaphors, Cognitive Mechanism, Meaning Construction

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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