This article attempts to take the Chinese color metaphor as an example,discuss the general character and individuality of human metaphor in order to seek the key elements which influence the metaphor input and to find out the influence on teaching Chinese .

In this thesis, I have attempted to discuss the similarity and dissimilarity of cross-culture metaphor by making a comparative study of color metaphor in English and Chinese.

Different emotional color metaphors arise because of different cultures.

When learning English, I find that while color metaphors used in different languages have something in common there exist differences in varied cultural contexts, which is worthy of study.

Chinese nominal metaphor comprehension method based on cooperation mechanism;

The Roles of Enhancement and Inhibition in Chinese Metaphor Comprehension;

There is much controversy about the roles of topics and vehicles in the process of metaphor comprehension.

The understanding of metaphor is an important part of metaphorical theories, and the operation system and effects are achieved and embodied in the process of metaphor understanding.

Traditionaltheories of metaphor ( the comparison theory , the interaction theory , the pragmatic theory) failedto touch the essence of metaphor understanding.

Relevance theory explains metaphor in a dynamic context from the human cognitive perspective,which offers a new way to view metaphor and reveals the nature of metaphor understanding.

It also reveals the nature of metaphor interpretation, thinking that metaphor belongs to ordinary utterances, which requires no special interpretive abilities or procedures: it is a natural outcome of some very general cognitive and inferential abilities in verbal communication.

For many years, scholars and researchers have been trying from variousperspectives to study the process of metaphor interpretation.