中西方节日文化差异探析以春节和圣诞节为例
毕业论文关键词：春节；圣诞节；文化差异
Abstract Festival is kind of culture created by people to meet the needs of production and household use. The festival culture has been an important media to promote the exchange and integration between the China and the West. This paper takes the Spring Festival and Christmas as examples. According to the documents research, relevant date collection, and the way of using contrastive analysis, it aims at finding the cultural differences. Thus people can have a more particular knowledge of western society and use its excellent cultural elements for reference. It is good for promoting the development and flourish of Chinese economy and culture, protecting and developing Chinese nation’s culture essence. Finally people can achieve the goal of inheriting and developing the excellent traditional culture of Chinese nation.
Key words: Spring Festival; Christmas; cultural differences
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Origin and Custom of Spring Festival and Christmas 2
2.1 The Origin of Spring Festival 2
2.2 The Origin of Christmas 2
2.3 The Spring Festival’s Customs 3
2.4 The Western Christmas’ Customs 4
III. The Cultural Connotation of Spring Festival and Christmas 7
3.1 Differences of Time 7
3.2 Differences of Symbols 7
3.3 Differences of Form 7
3.4 Differences Under the Background of Religious Beliefs 8
3.5 Different Ways of Naming 9
IV. Different Thinking Modes of China and West 9
4.1 The Chinese Thinking Mode 9
4.2 The Western Thinking Mode 10
4.3 Differences of Reasons 10
V. Conclusion 12
Bibliography 14
Acknowledgements 15
The Analysis of Differences Between Chinese and Western Festival Culture —— Illustrated by the Case of Spring Festival and Christmas
I. Introduction
The world of culture is colorful, so does the description of culture. Festival is a cultural phenomena, and it shows a nation’s historical-cultural consciousness completely. Festival culture is a kind of historical culture. It is a kind of national culture which is formed and developed in the long process of history by a country or a nation. It is a national customs too. Profound moral can be found in it. Some of them were created in memory of an important historical figure, an important historical event to celebrate the coming of a season and so on, such as the Chinese Spring Festival, International Labor Day, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and so on.
Although there are a lot of differences in festival culture between China and the West in the 21st century, on the background of globalization people can use all kinds of media to get a frequent and deep communication and understanding between each other better. For example, in China, people can see more and more families using beautiful Christmas trees to decorate their doorway on Christmas Day. And walk along the district, almost all of the shops are sticked with photos of Father Christmas. Shops are all decorated with colorful lanterns which are painted with words like “Merry Christmas!”. All of these can attract more customers, and get sales promotion. It becomes a special cultural atmosphere of festival and a necessary sales skill.
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