Is butterfly change positive or negative?

However, the objective reason for the formation of the word "Butterfly Change" is that a large number of people and events in society have changed or qualitatively changed, which provides semantic content for "Butterfly Change".

As far as the language itself is concerned, there are many formal compound words with the structure of "nominal vehicle+verb" in Chinese, such as blood red, snow white, straight, eating, swallowing, distinguishing, fiery red, green, sallow, butterfly and breaststroke.

There is also an inverse verb-object compound, such as cancer, desertification, hardening (hardening), softening, aging, urbanization and colloquialism. Under their influence, people created "butterfly change" under the action of language analogy mechanism.

"Butterfly change" and "metamorphosis" are synonymous in metaphor, but there are great differences in other aspects. Mainly manifested in the following two points:

1. From the original meaning, the semantic meaning of "metamorphosis" is a general term, which describes the changes caused by peeling of snakes, cicadas and other animals. Metaphor means "like the peeling of snakes, cicadas and other animals", and the structural relationship between the two morphemes is correct in form. The meaning of "Butterfly Change" is specific. Take the butterfly as an example, Leopard Spot, which describes that the larva breaks the cocoon and becomes a butterfly. In short, it is "turning the pupa into a butterfly".

The structural relationship of its original meaning is special, which is a reverse verb-object relationship or verb-complement relationship, which is rare in Chinese, such as "canceration" (becoming cancer), "desertification" (becoming sand) and "waiting too long"; The figurative meaning of "butterfly change" can be understood as a formal positive correlation (such as a larva changing into a butterfly), just like "grass green" (as green as grass) and "gathering".

2. "Abnormal" is a traditional word and a derogatory term, which is often used with "corruption" and "depravity". The example cited in the annotation of the sixth edition of Modern Chinese Dictionary is derogatory: "A top student became a thief, and this lesson is worth remembering."