This article takes the analysis of original meaning of words as the main branch and reveals the relationship between some representative words in the semantic field of beauty and Chinese traditional aesthetics.
The usage of metaphor is in connection with the fundamental change of speech in the semantic field, which can make people realize the literal meaning of the speech and also its figurative meaning.
When traditional methods of glossing fail in bringing out the essence of articles by ancient writers, it would be advisable to resort to the semantic field and lexical context.
Only peripheral members of a semantic field could be morphemized, and the mophemized monosyllabic word should express generalized meaning.
