英美节日的变迁及文化内涵
毕业论文关键词：英美节日;文化内涵;变迁
Abstract As an important part of national culture, festival is the most prominent and unique representation of national survival form. This paper will provide brief introduction to main festivals in British &American, and analyze their changes through all these years, explore their different cultural origins and connotation, in this way, we could understand western culture better in more objective way, as a result, our ability of cross-cultural communication will be improved. This paper will be pided into five parts, the first part is the general introduction to the article, the second part will introduce the changes of festivals, the third part will analyze the causes on the changes of festivals, the fourth part will explain cultural connotation of festivals, then the influence of western festival on Chinese will be analyzed and the last part will give conclusion to the paper.
Key words: British &American Festivals; Cultural Connotations; Changes
Changes of British &American Festivals and Their Cultural Connotations
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
Ⅰ. Introduction 1
II．Introduction to changes of Festivals 2
2.1 Christmas Day 2
2.2 Halloween 3
2.3. Thanksgiving 4
2.4 Mother’s Day 5
III. Causes on Changes of Festivals 6
3.1 Major Factors Influencing American Traditional Festivals 6
3.1.1 Industrialization 6
3.1.2 Christianity 7
IV. Cultural Connotation of Festivals 8
4.1 Functions 8
4.1.1 Pursuit and Desire of a Better Life 8
4.1.2 Traditional Virtue of Respecting the Elderly and Taking good care of the Young. 9
4.1.3 Everlasting Love 9
4.2 Inpiduality-oriented British &American Festival Culture 10
4.3. Pleasure-themed British and American Festival Culture 10
V. The Influence of British and American Festivals in Respect of Chinese Culture 11
5.1. British and American Festivals in China 11
5.2. Analysis of the Popularity of British and American Festivals in China 11
5.3. The Attitude toward the British and American Festivals 12
VI Conclusion 12
Bibliography 14
Acknowledgements.... 15
Ⅰ. Introduction
Festival is a group activity for human beings, as well as a kind of cultural phenomenon. As an important section of human culture, it manifests a nation’s cultural characteristics and brilliance deeply and comprehensively. Therefore, it possessed prominent significance on theory and practice research to study on festival and festival culture.
Separately speaking, British and American festivals are based on the solar calendar, they are mainly tragedy-oriented, for example, ancient Greek culture are tragic-conscious, Christian culture are sin conscious.
Besides, different from Chinese festival culture featured by collectivism, many western festival culture is featured by inpidualism, they lay great emphasis on the expression of personal emotions and the inpidual psychological feelings.
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