【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 Studies on Basic Color Words about the Sequential Hypothesis ?s found and speculation caused the German linguist?s also believes that the lack of color words and the meaning of color words of uncertainty is a reflection of the low color vision,with the improvement of color vision,people will be able to distinguish a growing number of color and nominate was the first to put forward the mon order of color word hypothesis and pointed out that the color words have six stages at least (1)The first stage,there is only one color word which named black and red hybrid concepts (2)The second stage,the concept of red and black can be divided (3)The third stage,the name of yellow appears and may also named green at the same time (4) The fourth stage,the name of white appears (5)The fifth stage,the name of green appears and may also call blue (6)The sixth stage,the name of blue appears SapirWhorf Hypothesis With the rise of human language,the studies of color words start to use the SapirWhorf Hypothesis as the background in the first half of the 20th and Whorf believe that language filters people?s perception and the way they categorize their relationship between language and culture is inplete without touching on that between language and thought. Now there are mainly two different interpretations about the hypothesis:a strong version and a weak version 11 (1)The strong version believes that language patterns determine people?s thinking and behavior (2)The weak version holds that language patterns influences people?s thinking and behavior So far,many researches and experiments conducted in various disciplines have provided support to the weak studies have shed new light on our understanding of the hypothesis:people tend to sort out and distinguish experiences differently according to the semantic categories provided by their different codes in their culture. Studies on Chinese Basic Color at Home In recent years,the domestic scholar?s research focuses on the discussion of Chinese color words,such as:WuTieping?s “on color words and its fuzzy nature”is the study of vague meaning of color ?s“Color Association Theory”is the study of associative meaning of color words,this book reveals the deep reason of the plex meaning in the color ?s “The color word form antithesis way function and expression”draw the outline of a basic color terms in Chinese development framework and so of Chinese and English color words can help language learners to master ,many teaching language workers are also involved in the parative study of English and Chinese color gives a brief account of the English color words mainly in English.“the Literature of Basic Color Words Translation Methods”written by LiuXiaohui interprets five skills for the correct translation of color words in Chinese and English Summary Through continuous research of scholars at home and abroad,we can find that the basic color terms in Chinese and English have appeared a fusion development situation in vocabulary ?s sequential hypothesis enriches people?s perception in color field and made human beings life more colorful,SapirWhorf hypothesis states the relationship between language and culture,which offers theoretical basis for this thesis .All of those are in favor of next chapter. 12 貴 貴州大學本科畢業(yè)論文（設計） 第 3 頁 Chapter 3 Contrastive Study on Cultural Connotations of English and Chinese Basic Color Words Introduction From the last two chapters,we not only learn the history of studies of color words but also get across some theories about development of color on these studies and theories,it is not difficult for us to make a conclusion that there are nine kinds of color words in mon in two are red/紅 ,yellow/黃 ,white/白 ,green/綠 ,blue/藍 ,purple/紫 ,brown/棕 ,black/黑 and gray/灰 ,but in those color words ,“brown”is used rarely and cannot express some cultural connotation meaning in a result,we will just discuss six color words which is seen in our daily life in this chapter from its metaphorical meaning,associative meaning,emotional meaning or other extended meanings,which influences on cultural connotation in English and Chinese. Contrast of Cultural Connotations of English and Chinese Basic Color Words ―red‖和“紅色” The red color term expressed in Chinese ancient is mainly “chi”(赤 ),“zhu”(朱） ,“dan”(丹 ) and “hong”(紅 ).When mentioned “hong”（紅） ,people often think of happiness,auspicious,prosperity,lucky and warm etc.“Hong”（ 紅 ） color is also often linked to ward off evil spirits and drive the epidemic disease in Chinese traditional custom. Many official affairs and government activities in Chinese ancient had a close relationship with the “hong”（紅 ） the past ,the emperor read over paper with “ zhushahong” (朱砂紅 ).The officials named of “zhupi” (朱批 )at that time,which refers to the paper written by the emperor in “ zhusha” (朱砂 ). “ Hong” (紅 )color is a kind of warm and fire,which make people more exciting easily. When opening a business or anniversary,the businessmen always decorates their shop with happiness an wild peoplel send their blessing words of “ honghonghuohuo”(紅紅火火 ),“ xingwangfada” (興旺發(fā)達 )at the same ,“hong”(紅 )color can express symbolic sense of revolution in Chinese instance“,hongsegeming” (紅色革命），“ hongsezhengquan” (紅色政權(quán) )and so on . In western countries,red mainly refers to the color of blood,once the blood loss,the flower of life will ,“red”is a kind of derogatory color in most cases in instance,“in the red” (虧損 ),“ redtape” (官僚作風 ),“ redneck” (鄉(xiāng)巴佬 ),“ red light district” (紅燈區(qū) )and so on. In addition,red also contains the meaning of instance,“redletter days”refers to holidays,such days are printed in red on their calendars,rather than in black for ordinary day. ―yellow‖和 ―黃色 ‖ 13 In Chinese tradi