THE REPRESENTED MEANING OF THE CHINESE CUISINE CULTURE THROUGH HOMONYM OF LANGUAGE

Abstract

The represented meaning of the Chinese cuisine culture is a very unique culture that is worthy for researching. It can be formed with the external conditions such as the appearance, quantity, color, language, or the intern al conditions such as the functional characteristics and uses, or the folk meaning of the food; the internal ones also contain the method and mode of the image or visual mentality, metaphor and simile… We use those things to convey people the certain messa ges of the Chinese cuisine culture. In this article, we will discuss the Chinese particular cuisine culture under the perspectives of the homonym and euphony of the Chinese language.