Thai and China are large agricultural country,with the social and cultural continuous exchange between the two countries,more and more Thai students study chinese in China.The animal holds an important place in the life of the Chinese and Thai people.Because both countries are vary in their social backgrounds,modes of thinking,and manners and customs,the people’s feeling and association with animals conceptual meaning and figurativw sense.The semantic difference reflects the cultural uniqueness,and also causes the Thai leaners of Chinese to make errors when studing chinese animal idioms because of the the interference of their mother tongue.
I hopes that this contrastive analysis of the Chinese and Thai animal idioms may help the Thai learners to better understand the features, regularities and cultural connotation of the Chinese animal idioms so as to improve their study and ability in understanding and using Chinese idioms.
［Keywords］Animal Idioms; Comparison; Cultural Connotation
