한중 날씨 관련 속담에 나타난 특징 비교

Abstract

Under the premise that while Korea and China in tradition have fostered each other's growth while sharing Confucian ideology, the differences in region and environmental characteristics may cause dissemblance in the consciousness of expression and the consciousness subject therefore bear different proverbs regarding weather, the study aims to examine similarities and differences of the two countries' proverbs on weather through the perspective of climatic factors, expressions in language and their meaning. The study can be deemed as an integral part in examining the two countries' method of expression and study of attitude resulting from the conventional climate and the tendencies for language development, and lead to various studies comparing proverbs between Korea and China while cross investigating the differences. This study was conducted as per traditional research methods of collection, categorization, and analysis. The findings are as following: Proverbs regarding weather in both countries in common contain observations of climatic elements and condense information based experiential knowledge. Secondly, most weather related proverbs serve the function of providing information on climate. Thirdly, they are pithy and humorous. Fourthly, they forecast the weather in observing the behavioural changes in insects or animals in living proximity. Fifthly, the proverbs wish for hope and blessing while providing information on climate. In terms of differences, firstly there are non-associative proverbs based on differences such as hidden meanings in idioms and regional variety. Secondly, the Chinese had comparatively less proverbs referring to plants.