Analysis of the festival culture between China and western 英语专业毕业论文.doc

analysis of the festival culture between china and westernthe world of the culture is varied and colorful, not only because different countries and nations have their own features, but also the different visual angle adopted to observe the same culture phenomenon will definitely get diverse conclusions. the fundamental intention to research the traditional festival cultures between the china and western is to carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the nation, and meanwhile to use the cream of western culture for reference to provide lessons and guidance for the modern construction of advanced cultureon the one hand, the report aims to discover the traditional value concept and deep culture psychology by comparing the differences of the traditional festival culture. it is helpful for us to dig the deep connotation of traditional festival and to recognize objectively and systematically the nationality and features of traditional festival culture both in china and western countries. on the other hand, through comparing the chinese traditional festival culture with west countries, we can keep the nationality and features of chinese traditional festival culture in the global time, and carry forward the traditional culture of chinese nation.1. analysis of the festival culture between china and western1) from the difference of the festival originthe main traditional festival of china is converted by the lunar calendar, with the full color of agriculture. the activities of chinese traditional festival are all produced according to the lunar calendar; chinese people want to use some celebrations activities in slack season to express their best wishes for favorable climatic weathers. because of the lower productive power in the remote geologic time, human could not recognize and understand scientifically the rules and phenomenon of nature. therefore, they have the worship about the god, the earth, the ancestor at the different degree. gradually, they offer sacrifices to gods or ancestors, which has close relations with the agriculture, such as pray for a good harvest, ancestor worship. meanwhile, because chinese people are in the self-sufficiency agriculture society and natural economy of feudal system, the traditional festival defiantly keep the color of agriculture.on the contrary, the origin of western traditional festivals is full of religion color. since the europe continent was infected by the christian civilization, nearly all important traditional festival has some relation with religion. in the western countries, because of the foundation and spreading of the christian and the agriculture economy has been replaced by the commodity economy of industrial society. gradually, the festivals derived by variable religion consciousness replaced the celebration customs which piously worship the land and pray for harvest. although the western countries originated from the stock raising, the agriculture did not become the foundation for the country. therefore people focus on the climate less than that in china; on the contrary they mostly focus on christianity. moreover, most western countries always formed into a religion, a nation and then respectively formed their own country. that makes the traditional festivals have the religion colors in the origin period and then strengthen in the process of development.2) from the custom differencesthe topic of chinese traditional festival custom is mainly about the diet. chinese people notice more about the diet. the features of chinese diet culture became the metaphor symbol system, which not only regards to the civilization achievements, but also a kind of national psychology with the high believes and forbidden. the kind of metaphor and symbol concentrated in the diet of festival custom. it is the result of the mind concept and value orientation. chinese people aim to pursue the health and longevity of life, and the food is the basic way to achieve the goals. in addition, chinese philosophy emphasis on the elemental harmony, which means human, should be compatible with the nature. the philosophy makes chinese food watch especially emphasize the corresponding among the body, the food and the nature. only in this way, the human, as a part of the nature, will be healthy and longevity. on the contrary, the topic of the traditional festival custom of the western countries is mainly refers to the libertinism. the western people treat the pursuit way of life as the attention to be healthy and happy. they think that, except the necessary food, it is more important to realize the goals by the religion and entertainment activities. they hold a view that everyone can be forgave only by believing the god, participating religious rituals and repenting continually in order to gain the purify and happy. therefore, not only the western festival custom has the dense religion color, but also have the pleasure and relax after the religious rituals.3) from the human characterafter the three technological revolutions, the material civilization gained a quick promotion, and also the same to the spiritual civilization. hume in a treatise of human nature commented that”nothing can be gained more respect than the ones power and wealth, and nothing can be gained contempt than poverty”. from the view, we can conclude that: the humanity get the most value, and the human right get the best reception. consequently, the western festival injects the humanity into the festival. as the result, the expressing way is also obvious, such as the mothers day honoring for mother, the fathers day respecting for father, and so on.most of these festivals show the real side of human meets, and the sense of humanism is accepted by people naturally. 4) from the group differencesuch as the lantern festival, mid-autumn day, the spring festival and so on, the core idea of chinese traditional festival emphasize the “reunion”. the “reunion” is located in a small scope, with certain exclusivity. whereas, some western festivals attaches importance to the “public”, such as carnival, christmas day, beer festival, shrove tuesday, and so on. among these festivals, besides the strong color of religion, the communications is stressed on. even in some festival, there are the whole citizens to celebrate the day. the phenomenon reflects the realistic meets that people eager to communicate and contact with each other, as well embody a psychology meet that the human want to get ride of the loneliness by some means. currently, these festivals are accepted by increasingly number of chinese young people. although they are not christian, the psychology meet is similar. they want to find a proper way to provide an entertainment chance, therefore these festivals meet them. 5) from the culture psychologyour traditional culture especially stress on the theory that man is an integral part of nature, which reflects a kind of the culture psychology to respect the ancestor, the love for life and the expectance for happy life. the difference traditional festival of western countries reflected the different culture psychology, which shows the plural values of western people, such as fools day, the mardi gras, the mothers day, fathers day, christmas, and so on. christmas mainly expressed the pious and respective cultural psychology for our lady. it is different from our strong family values that catholics pay homage to the virgin mary. it reflects that the western values are different from our traditional ideology leaded by confucian thinking in the past long time. 2. the manual integration of traditional festival culture between china and western the festival, as a carrier of culture, ever and now proceeds to play the key role of carrying forward the culture. specifically, the different festivals reflect the common culture connotation. l firstly, both two kinds of festival cultures reflect the common expectance for the beautiful life.l secondly, both of them inherit the spirit, which is respecting the old and loving the young, admiring the historical figures and loyal to the love.just because the nature same aspects, and close communication of sino-western on the economy and politics, there is a consolidate basic and foundation for the inter-penetrating between two kinds of festival culture. from the whole world, there is a weaken trend about the connotation of the festival culture. the people, who participate the festival celebration, mostly deprived of the limits of the origin and background of the festival culture. this culture connotation has been a special passport for the traditional culture to a step abroad, and then the excellent festival can be accepted in the whole world.3. comments on these studiestraditional festival culture should have the bidirectional blending and lessons. actually, there is a contrast that the western festival we accepted is more then that we transmit. currently, we should confess the recognition of our traditional festival, and then exert ourselves to expand our traditional festival culture to the world. 1) fully recognize that the world needs the cultural diversity of traditional festivalschina has the very rich traditional festivals resources. in order to form a diversity structure of the world cultural, in the view of the report, we should have a kind of consensus that china should strive to expand the rich cultural elements of traditional festival into western countries in today economic globalization, so as to spread the brilliant culture of china nation and let the western countries share our spiritual civilizations.2) make great efforts to spread the traditional festivals cultural1. maintain a good mentality. 2. to be a good main body to spread the traditional festival cultural. 3. translation work should keep up with the development of communication.3) keep the traditional festivals culturalin today globalization, how to maintain the cultures diversity and the nationals character, that has become an extremely important issue for every country. more and more people already have the consciousness that the more degree of globalization, the more should maintain its own national character and national features. otherwise the nation will lose oneself in the tide of globalization. in the process of outward expansion, it is particularly important to maintain its original nature, to maintain its original cultural value of national history.4) play the key role of the governmentthe above suggest relies on the effect of the government. the reason is that some work itself is the responsibility of the government, and only be successfully accomplished under the support from the government.conclusionchinese and western cultures have their own different characteristics. therefore there is a method to treat the western cultures that “discard the dross and select the essence”. we can have a conclusion through the above analysis and comparison that there are some differences of the traditional festival culture between chinese and western, such as the origin, the custom and so on. in the exchanges of the two cultures, china, as a great civilization, has a colorful traditional culture. however, in the current background of the globalization, only by constantly enhancing the overall national strength, including the improvement of culture competitive power and keep the vitality of traditional festivals, we can integrate into the international community, and thus be invincible.the comparative study of traditional festival culture between the china and the western has a very important significance both in theoretical and practical, but the academic concern for the subject still not enough relative to its significances. the current study always stress on some aspects, without the comprehensive and systematical analysis or the deepen research. therefore, the report want enable to more scholars concern about this area through this exploration, so as to 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