Difference of Main Festivals between China and Western Countries

1、中西方主要节日的文化差异cultural differences of main festival between china and western countriescontentsi. introduction.1a. the major festivals of china: the spring festival.1b. the major festivals of western: the christmas.1ii. compare this two important festivals.2a. on different origins.2 1. the spring fest

2、ival.2 2. the christmas day.2b. on different customs.3 1. the spring festival.3 2. the christmas day.4iii. reflection of the cultural characteristics of different countries5a. chinese festivals -worldly traditional culture.5b. western festivals-strong religious culture.6iv. a blend of chinese and we

3、stern culture festival .8iv. conclusion.9a. sharing features.9b. social integration.10work cited.12abstract: traditional festivals between chinese and western have many differences, such as, spring festival in china, christmas day in western countries. this essay probes into the differences and blen

4、ding between chinese and western cultures through traditional festivals. first, they are distinctly different in their origins. the festivals in china mainly stem from seasons and solar periods, which are closely related to agriculture, and is a folk traditional cultural of thousands of years. the f

5、estivals in western countries generally stem from religion and its relative events. second, they are apparently different in their customs. when celebrating the festivals, the chinese tend to focus more attention on eating and drinking, the reason why is people hoping to have a good life in this wor

6、ld; religion is strong colors in western festivals; and their worship the god very mach and the purpose is to help people who need help. in the era of globalization, due to the development and intensification in economic and cultural exchanges, we can feel the quick step of chinese-western culture c

7、ommunication from the peoples celebration on each others festivals. the people of both sides accept and adore each others traditional festivals，and to help language learners and the western nations to strengthen communication and understanding.key words: culture differences; origin and customs; spri

8、ng festival; christmas day摘要：中国和西方国家的传统节日文化有着很多的的不同点，比如说：中国的春节，西方的圣诞节。本文将从传统节日中看中西文化差异与交融。第一，由传统节日的起源看中西文化差异。中国的传统节日主要源于岁时节令，具有浓厚的农业色彩几千年流传下来的民间传统。西方的传统节日主要源于宗教及相关事件，都带有浓厚的宗教色彩。第二，从节日习俗中看中西文化差异。中国的传统节日习俗主要以吃喝饮食为主题，其主要原因是企望能今生过上美好的生活；在西方节日宗教色彩较强，人们在节日里崇拜上帝并且在节日中以向需要帮助的人伸出援助之手目的。从中国人过西方节日及外国人过中国节，我们感到

9、中西文化交流加快的脚步。在全球化时代，由于经济、文化的发展与深化，中西传统节日逐渐被双方人民相互包容接纳，有助于语言学习者与西方各民族加强沟通与了解。关键词：中西文化差异；起源和习俗；春节；圣诞节。 i. introductionfestival is a time which gives a special social and cultural significance in the year, is peoples richly colorful life centralism manifests, summaries and promotion an area or the count

10、rys politics, economy, culture, religion and so on. holiday customs are the customs of the holiday where there is often a result of holiday system and the deeper differences between natural and social environment which is different. the world is a gorgeous colorful culture, and cultural description

11、of the same. this is not only because the country, all ethnic groups have different characteristics, their culture their own characteristics; but also because of the same cultural phenomenon if you choose the different angle observation to be able to see the different content, sees to a different co

12、nclusion the traditional festival will be seen in the differences and blending between chinese and western cultures.a. the major festivals of china as is known to everybody chinese major traditional festivals are: the spring festival, the qing ming festival, double-seventh festival, mid-autumn festi

13、val and so on. most of these festivals are national holidays, in addition to the han, there are more than 20 ethnic minorities of these festivals, and these national traditional festivals in contemporary chinese society have a distinct representation. spring festival means the spring will come, vien

14、tiane vegetation recovery updates, a new round of planting and harvesting season is beginning. it just withered grass through the long winter ice and snow, have long looked forward to spring flowers, vibrant life, when the new year approaching, naturally full of joy, singing and dancing to welcome t

15、he holiday. han chinese new year is the most important traditional festival. in the traditional chinese new year holiday period, people hold various celebrations, these activities are to worship deities and ancestral shrine, blow away the cobwebs, then hi welcome blessing, pray for the harvest as th

16、e main contentb. the major festivals of westernand to britain, france, italy, the united states as the representative of the western countries, the major traditional festivals include: christmas, new years day, halloween, valentines day, thanksgiving day, easter and the mardi gras (carnival) and so

17、on.christmas, dec. 25 each year, is the church calendar, a traditional chinese festival, which is celebrating the birth of jesus, christian to celebration. at christmas, most of the catholic church will be the first in december 24 christmas night that on december 25 at midnight mass early and some c

18、hurch of christ will be held at carol, then 25 december to celebrate christmas section; and another major branch of christianity - orthodox christmas is celebrated each year on january 7.ii. compare of some important festivalsa. on different origins 1. the spring festivalfirst year is the first luna

19、r month, chinese new year, also known as the lunar calendar (lunar) year, commonly known as new year. this is the oldest private, the most solemn, the most popular festival of an ancient tradition, han spring festival, a longer time, usually starting from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month lu

20、nar calendar, the fifteenth until the lantern festival. spring festival has about 4000 years history. lunar new years day was originally, that people often say the new year. it originated in the shang dynasty ritual sacrifice of the first end of every activity. september 27, 1949, new china was esta

21、blished, the first session of the cppcc plenary meeting, approved the use of the worlds common era calendar, the gregorian calendar on january 1 as new years day, commonly known as the gregorian calendar years; chinese in the beginning of spring is usually the first month started this before, so the

22、 chinese are definitely the beginning of the spring festival, commonly known as the lunar year, further defined who started the first lunar month is called spring festival, spring festival to include the name of the official code of chinese festivals, the real is widely so far as popular2. the chris

23、tmas daythe annual december 25, the day christians commemorate the birth of jesus, called christmas day. the christmas day is from december 24 to january 6 next year as. during the holiday season, christians are countries held a grand ceremony. originally, christmas is a christian holiday, because o

24、f peoples attention; it has become a national festival. most of the year, a grand national holiday, and new year saying that the west is the likelihood of chinas spring festival. christmas is the name of christ mass beautiful word. mass is a ceremony to go worship the god in a church. christmas day

25、is a religious festival. we regard it as the birth of jesus to celebrate christmas day known as a result. on this day, all the worlds christians will hold a special worship ceremony. but many do not have the slightest bit of christmas celebrations and religious association. the exchange of gifts, se

26、nd cards, which have become a so celebrate the christmas.is a story of the birth of jesus, jesus become pregnant because of the holy ghost, born of mary. god sent emissaries shiao-yu lin gabriel joseph in a dream, asking him not to unmarried pregnant and not because she mallia, instead of having her

27、, the children and renamed it the jesus, which means he is out to save the people from evil. when mary is about linpan time, the government in rome under the orders must declare to all the people of bethlehem residence. yes, but mary and joseph. they arrived in bethlehem, its already faint, only two

28、 failed to find places where they slept at night hotel, an equestrian can only refuge. it was at that time that jesus was born in a manger! after the man commemorate the birth of christ, is set for december 25 christmas every year at mass to mark the birth of jesus.obtained by comparing the chinese

29、new year come from folk, is one conventional holiday. spring festival is one of the choices of production and life of the real conclusion, is a summary of agricultural activity rhythm, and is the movement of various objects the use of understanding in the law. the christmas day entirely comes from r

30、eligion. however, a deeper sense, the religious stories them not from the community and peoples creation.b. on different customs 1. the spring festivalchinese pay attention to diet, the concept of hunger breeds discontent, the cultural traditions. chinese food culture, ethnic characteristics is that

31、 food culture is not just about eating their own civilization, but also internalized into a kind of belief, taboos and cultural significance of the national psychology, become a cultural symbol system metaphor. this metaphorical and symbolic nature of the holiday customs of the diet to be the most c

32、oncentrated expression.spring festival is chinas most important traditional festivals, in addition to new year, new years scrolls and other practices; the diet is also an important custom. habits vary across the country, more consistent sisu are: (a) tanggua. folk legend, the twelfth lunar month, or

33、 23 on the 24th, individual of the kitchen god to return to temple to report lower levels. to kitchen god heaven made well, so it jizao the offerings of the most important is the caramel produced tanggua. it is believed that eating a tanggua kitchen god, in the jade emperor in front can only be swee

34、t into the good words, but did not speak ill of the main house, guer, jizao around the streets shitan most seasonal characteristics of food that is tanggua.(b) the family reunion dinner. new years eve all family people eating dinner, drinking wine reunion for the north-south co-shi su han people. sm

35、all family reunions have food and wine, happy and peaceful. poultry meat, eggs, various color dishes, and it is essential fish. (c) to eat dumplings. new years eve, the inter-face at midnightthe same on other festive occasions, chinas traditional festivals have to have a cultural implication eating

36、customs: if the cold and announcements, updates, the ching ming festival, mid-autumn festival moon cakes, the chung yeung festival double ninth festival cake and chrysanthemum wine and so on. all these can be seen that chinas traditional festivals and cultural mainly eat or drink food as its theme.

37、the reason is mainly caused by ideas and values. the chinese peoples pursuit of health and longevity of life for the purpose, mainly through the diet to achieve, namely, tubes, said hunger breeds discontent, chancery hong-fan, called food for the first eight government, together with its philosophy

38、stresses harmony with natures heaven accordingly,makes the concept of the chinese peoples diet special attention to the human body, diet and the natural timing to correspond to that only the case, as a natural part of the people would be health and longevity, so not only with food-based holiday cust

39、oms, and a specific holiday food as most of these ideas good comment. 2. the christmas day westerners are the pursuit of life for the purpose of health and happiness, in addition to the diet, the more important is to be achieved through religious and recreational activities that are born of original

40、 sin, must believe in god, to participate in religious services and constant repentance and so on in order to atone, to be ok so clean and happy, so the wests holiday customs not only biblical, but also focus on ritual as a form of physical and mental relief-type season and happy joy. if the wests m

41、ost valued christmas, the annual christmas eve, the denomination to be held in the church liturgy, hymns from the church sang song poetry classes for everyone. many families also have to pray on christmas eve, singing carols customs. christmas day people gathered in the square, surrounded by tall tr

42、ees to visit there singing carols and other activities. there is crowded christmas party.there is world-famous carnival. carnival, in terms of scale, second only to christmas, can be regarded as the worlds largest traditional festivals. carnival, people should be mad music for three days, eating and

43、 drinking heartily, singing and dancing, mischief, regardless of race, color, regardless of rich or poor are equal, all import of the joy of the sea. at present, particularly known for carnival in brazil known to the world, had been praised as the greatest show on earth. carnival of brazil was first

44、 introduced by the portuguese, is a roman catholic holiday, but now religion, color is already very weak. during the holiday season, the streets and squares wrapped in festive costumes, everybody in town colored flags fluttering, lights flashing,the two festivals are different in nature, a tradition

45、al folk festival, and the other is the universal religious festival, folk festival, but their activities have a very similar place. for example: new year and christmas dinner, new years money and the childrens christmas gifts for new year and christmas tree decorated with couplets of family and frie

46、nds and i wish, yearning for a better future and so on. no matter how different forms of life in the real aspirations of human beings is always connected.iii. reflection of the cultural characteristics of different countriesa. chinese festivals - worldly traditional culturewhen we talk about traditi

47、onal festivals in china, we will think of chinese new year, ching ming festival, dragon boat festival, mid-autumn festival and chung yeung festival, etc. smallholder agriculture and cottage industries combined male and female farming organizations self-sufficient economy of traditional chinese festi

48、vals and cultural origins and development of deep soil. the festival itself reflects the agricultural community throughout the year in the life of the law, and agriculture-related astronomy festival calendar has a direct impact on the development and evolution. chinese new year period to all cultura

49、l forms, almost all of the typical performance of farming culture: such as food culture is based on the variety of agricultural products; entertainment culture is based on farming in the winter leisure; ritual culture is based on favorable weather farmers pray for god to new years bumper harvest of

50、good wishes.for the spring festival, with the changing times, we have a new way of celebration, the chinese new year and year on the concept of nation has a unique complex. year from the original meaning of agriculture in ancient time people called the valley of the growth cycle year. according to r

51、esearch, the spring festival is the first year after the farm in return for the gift of god came; new year is the ancient people celebrate the harvest crops, thank the gift of gods activities. that is not difficult to find, since ancient times, chinese spring festival as the biggest festival. the cu

52、ltural connotation of the spring festival and christmas chinas traditional festival culture is the labor of our people to create and intelligent crystal, passing the nations emotions and memories. the spring festival is the highest representative of traditional chinese festivals. the ancients who st

53、arted the new year are a symbol of sun and moon in the first month, a new beginning of heaven and earth, embodies the yin and yang of our people since ancient times to reconcile the pursuit of philosophy. in spring festival, the first thing is fireworks, firecrackers, and a symbol of the beginning o

54、f a new time. spring is also a symbol of the beginning of human cultural life, ritual, worship of ancestors; new year is a personal relationship between gods, human relations re-confirmation. spring is a symbol of new hope in life, a symbol of future life as happy as holiday! despite the long years,

55、 the cultural connotation of the new year will be changes, but its original meaning was set cell accumulation in the culture of the chinese nation. chinese new year festival period taboos, from the perspective of cultural anthropology, this is not generally superstitious activities, it is the people

56、 expressed a real emotional, and placed people yearning for a better future. couplets is also an important symbol of cultural connotation of the spring festival. with the development, the scrolls of the content will be constantly refurbished, the people can fully express the community, a new underst

57、anding of life, while also expressed that people on themselves, the deep concern of society. these are the lives of art. to experience the spring festival, taste spring festival, is a realm of life. in short, the chinese traditional festival culture has a distinctive humanism colors; and the west is

58、 full of sacred and solemn religious.b. western festival - strong religious culture let us take the most intuitive way to find out the major western festivals, christmas the origin and cultural practices, the common features have very strong religious culture. christmas is the worlds largest christian fest