western-wedding-vs-Chinese-wedding.ppt

1、Differences between Chinese and western wedding,中西方婚礼的差异,Foreign Wedding Customs,Wedding Location and Wear Wedding process,The wedding ceremony hold in a church or outdoor in a western country,The bride will wearing a white wedding gown and holding a bouquet of flowers in her right hand.,BACK,The we

2、dding process of westerns,到教堂去举行结婚仪式是整个婚礼最重要的环节.首先,随着婚礼进行曲的节奏,新娘挽她的父亲的手走到新郎面前,由她的父亲将她亲手交到新郎手中.牧师会要求新郎新娘对对方作出一辈子的承诺,这也是整个婚礼的高潮.然后他们会在牧师和众人的祝福下,交换结婚戒指并亲吻对方。,To the church wedding ceremony is the most important aspects of the wedding. First of all, with the rhythm of the wedding march, the bride of her

3、 fathers harness hands before the groom came from her father that she personally handed the hands of the bridegroom. pastor will ask the bride and groom to make a lifetime commitment to each other, and this is the climax of the wedding. and then they will be priests and to the peoples blessing, exch

4、ange of marriage rings and kiss each other.,The bride is seen walking down the aisle,leaning on her fathers elbow.,Bride appearance,All eyes turn to her as she slowly moves forward to take her place beside the bridegroom in front of the clergyman.,A promise to each other,From this day forward,for be

5、tter for worse,for richer for poorer,will you love her,comfort her,honour and protect her,farsaking all others,be faithful to her,as long as you both shall live?,The exchange of rings,Through the bouquet,Large party,The introduction of chinese weddings,Wedding Location： Spacious courtyards or restau

6、rant,Wedding Dress:the dominant tone is red,Bride:a chaplet and official robes （凤冠霞帔） Bridegroom:Kwame brown take（状元服）,After riding in the red bridal bride, the groom rode in front, with the matchmaker, and the Bridal teams to groom the family weddings. Both parents sit on the court, while the bride

7、 and groom were married the next hall. The whole wedding presided over by the master of ceremonies, under the command of his , a bride and groom preparing for the wedding, and worshiped Diocese, then husband and wife worship, into the bridal chamber.,新娘乘着大红花轿在后,新郎骑着马在前,随着红娘和迎亲队伍到新郎家中拜堂.双方家长坐在堂上,而新郎新

8、娘在堂下成婚.整个婚礼由司仪主持,在他的指挥下,新郎新娘一拜天地,二拜高堂,然后夫妻对拜,送入洞房.,The wedding process of Chinese,After riding in the red bridal bride, the groom rode in front, with the matchmaker, and the Bridal teams to groom the family weddings. Both parents sit on the court, while the bride and groom were married the next hall

9、. The whole wedding presided over by the master of ceremonies, under the command of his , a bride and groom preparing for the wedding, and worshiped Diocese, then husband and wife worship, into the bridal chamber.,The wedding process of Chinese,fetch the bride（迎亲）,花轿brides sedan,wedding process,musi

10、c and firecrackers（鞭炮、爆竹）.,Wedding Ceremony,一拜天地 1 bow to the heaven and earth . 二拜高堂 2 bow to their parents 夫妻对拜 3 bow to each other,offer a cup of tea give red envelopes,Lucky money,食酒婚桌wedding banquet,lucky candy,wine drunk at a wedding feast,入洞房Go to the bridal chamber,鬧洞房: To tease the new coup

11、le,play some tricks,Happy ending,The reason caused by differences,between Chinese and western wedding,中西方在婚俗上面有以上种种的差异，这和中西方人在思想思维的差异有直接的联系。中国人比较保守，喜欢热闹，思维较古板，所以在中国历史几千年的时间里整个婚礼的习俗并没有多大的变化。直到近代西方的文化传入以后，中国的传统文化才开始向西方转化，但在很大的程度上任有中国传统婚俗的礼仪。而中国人爱热闹的性格在中国传统婚礼中可以得到充分的体现。,Marriage in the West have all th

12、ese above differences and the Westerners thought that the difference of thinking is directly linked. Chinese are more conservative, like the lively, more old-fashioned thinking, so in Chinese history for thousands of years of time the custom of the wedding has not changed much. Until the introductio

13、n of modern Western culture, Chinas traditional culture began to transform to the West, but to a large extent the traditional Chinese marriage customs office etiquette. The Chinese people love the lively characters in traditional Chinese wedding can be fully manifested.,Another cause is due to differences between the West and China different religions. China is a predominantly Buddhist(佛教), but the West is largely Christian. So the wed