中西方节日差异比较英文论文11

中西方节日的文化差异研究

Cultural Differences in Chinese and Western Festivals

摘要：节日是世界各国的宝贵文化遗产，不同国家的节日反映着不同的文化背景。本文旨在讨论中西方节日的文化差异以及某些重大节日的对比研究，以达到促进跨文化交流的目的。关键词：节日；文化差异；春节与圣诞节；清明节与万圣节；七夕与情人节；对比研究

Abstract Festivals are precious cultural heritage of different countries, so different festivals can reflect different cultures. This article discusses cultural differences and comparison between someone in Chinese and western festivals, aiming to promote cross-culture communication.

Key words festivals; culture differences; Spring Festival and the Christmas Day; the Pure Brightness Festival and the Halloween; the Chinese Valentine’s Day and the Western Valentine’s Day

1. Summary

Festivals are precious cultural heritage of different countries. That is also the reason why festivals in China and western countries have little in common. As a matter of fact, Chinese and western festivals serve as an intriguing window into their cultural differences. Their different origins and people's different ways to celebrate the festivals all reflect their cultural contrasts.

First of all, the naming and the origins of Chinese and western festivals are an indication of their totally different traditions. In China, many of our festivals are connected with seasons which have great influence on agriculture. New Year's Day, the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Duanwu Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival and Winter Solstice Festival are all examples. Take Duanwu Festival, for instance. Except for the explanations to honor the great poet Quyuan, many folk scholars believe that it originated from summer solstice and people's worship of dragons. In the fifth lunar month, crops begin to grow quickly. Obviously water is vitally important to agricultural production. While in ancient China, dragon was believed to be the god in charge of water. On the day of the festival, people raced dragon boats to please the god and offer him Zongzi. In this way, they pray for favorable weather for agriculture. As regards Chongyang Festival which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, it is in the golden harvest season. All people are in great enjoyment of the exciting harvest. So we can see China has been a big country of agriculture since along time ago, and Chinese people tend to attach great importance to agriculture. Now let's see the origins of the western festivals. More often than not, we find the appearance of religion, especially Christianity. There are New Year's Day, Epiphany, Saint Patrick's Day, Good Friday, Easter, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. They are all connected with religion. Good Friday is the anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus, Easter is to commemorate Jesus’ resurrection and Christmas is the birthday of Jesus Christ. We can see western festivals are covered with a strong color of religion.

What's more, people's different ways to celebrate the festivals embody their different values. In China, we pursue health, union, and harmony. Food is a main subject for the

celebration. In Spring Festival, we have dumplings, noodles, New Year cakes, etc. Noodles symbolize longevity, while the New Year cakes pronounce “niangao” in Chinese, which means life will become better and better year by year. Family reunion dinner is of cause in dispensable. We also eat moon cakes in Mid-autumn Day and Laba Porridge in Laba festival. We Chinese try to make our life more harmonious. However, for westerners the way of celebration is different. They never like to stay at home. Instead, they choose to go out and have fun. April Fools’ Day is a festival for playing tricks and it brings great fun. Activities to celebrate the Independence Day are colorful and exciting, including picnics, playing fireworks and parades. For them, to realize individual value is the most important. They like to expre ss their own feelings freely. For example, Saint Valentine’s Day is a good chance for westerners to express their romantic love. Compared with this, Chinese people are more confined to the old tradition. On Double-Seventh Day which can be called “Chinese Valentine’s Day”, people just can recall the stories of Niulang and Zhinu then do nothing.

To sum up, Chinese and western festivals are a window into their different cultures, including their tradition, their belief and their value. To learn different festivals is to promote cross culture communication. We should know the origins and people’s ways of celebration to understand the different cultures. Thus communication between China and Western countries will be much easier.

2. Comparative study on some important festivals between China and western countries

Festival culture is very profound. The festival customs in dissimilar countries are established by usage, with the own distinct national feature and rich presentation forms, but they in filtrate to each other. This and the western countries: Spring Festival and the Christmas Day, the Pure Brightness Festival and the Halloween, the Chinese Valentine’s Day and the Western Valentine’s Day.

Spring Festival and the Christmas Day

In China, as spring is the most beautiful season and all creatures on earth begin to grow, flowers are blooming in a riot of color; seeds sprout everywhere, i t is vitally important to celebrate the coming of the spring. As the beginning of a year, December 23rd in lunar year is the prelude to Spring Festival. On that day, all families without exception will worship the god of the kitchen and started to busily prepared for the New Year’s coming. In addition, according to the traditional habits, Chinese people will also make a thorough cleanup, which is also called spring-cleaning, to show their desire to sweep “the old and bad things” out of their house, ring out the Old Year and ring in the New Year. After this work, every house along the street has a bright and new look. With paper-cuts on the windows, couplets on the wall and red lanterns in front of the door, it looks really brilliant and full of happiness. The New Year’s Eve is the last day of December in lunar year. At that night, all members in a family will get together to enjoy the “family reunion dinner”, implied meaning lucky and harmony. When having dinner, everyone should only talking about things happy and good, avoid referring to death, disease or something bad. What’s more, family members will not sleep until the dawn of the Ne w Year’s Day. Instead, they will chat, watching TV and having snacks such as melon seeds, orange, and peanuts. The most exciting moment is when the New Year’s Bell rang. It seems as if all the firecrackers

around the world are set off with only one second. The sound of firecrackers will not stop until the dawn, and the new upsurge will begin at that time, when every family open the door and begin to visit their relatives. The carnival will continue to January 15th in lunar year.

In western countries, a similar festival is the Christmas Day which actually begins in December 12th and ends in January 6th in the next year. Like Chinese New Year, it is also a period rather than only one day, which is familiar to us all –December 25th. As the birthday of Jesus Christ, the Christmas Day is with no doubt the most vitally day all over the year. And as we all know, most western people are Christian. Red, green and white are regarded as the luckiest colors in Christmas Day, as they stand for the Christmas candle, Christmas tree and pure snow. People decorate a kind of evergreen tree with all kinds and colors of lights, balloons, gifts, paper flowers and so on, all filled with a festival atmosphere. Santa Claus is the most famous figure in western festival. All children believe that they will receive a brilliant gift from Santa Claus, and as they growing up, they will gradually know that their Santa Claus is a figure in human’s imagination. But who care? The most important thing is they get pleasure and own a happy childhood full of imagine. Just like Chinese spring-dinner, western people value the reunion of the whole family. They having dinner together beside the Christmas tree and enjoy themselves in playing until late at night. It is worth mentioning that the most popular songs during this period are “Silent Night”, “Jingle Bells”.

Spring Festival and the Christmas Day all show the happy and harmonious atmosphere established in family reunion. By contrast, Chinese people prefer to express their affection and homesick, while western people are more likely to pray for the gift of God.

The Pure Brightness Festival and the Halloween

Pure Brightness here means clear and clean. Pure Brightness Festival is from Chinese lunar calendar. It is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed. In Pure Brightness Festival, it’s a custom to visit one’s ancestor’s grave and sweep their tomb. Therefore, Pure Brightness Festival is also called Tomb-sweeping Day. The reason why Chinese people choose this day for honoring their ancestors may be that this day is the beginning of spring and ending of winter, all creatures begin to grow and people believe that their ancestors will obtain their new lives this day. They will look over the tomb carefully and make sure that there is no damage or corrosion. Then they will busting some paper-money, paper-flowers or some other things all made of paper, which is regarded as necessity for the dead people’s everyday use. Celebrate this Festival is important to all of us, but burning paper is not the only way. Beyond that, going for an excursion and fling kites. Sobriety is one of the Ghost Festival, demons; nature is capable of warding off evil into willow.

Chinese Pure Brightness Festival has the great value of commemoration and show the “Immortality of Soul” theory in the traditional Chinese thinking modes. Life-sustaining is not confines in biological process, but in the continuation of Chinese culture. It exists in the concept inherited from one generation to the next and is reverted by the whole Chinese nation.

Relatively, the western “Ghost Festival”is the Halloween. Children dress up in

costumes at night on Halloween and play pumpkin lanterns-pumpkins are a traditional part of the celebration, all people have parties and play games. Young person get together, wearing interesting costumes and all kinds of masks, visiting every house along the street and asking for sweets. It is said that ghosts will also visit the human world at night on Halloween and living person should try their best to treat them with warmth. The fire and pumpkin lantern are used to frighten the ghost and lead them back. On that day, people could do everything or make joke or trouble as they like and never mind other’s resentment, because everyone does as well. All people are happy and enjoy themselves in the harmony with the Nature.

T he Chinese Valentine’s Day and the Western Valentine’s Day

Love is the permanent topic of human society. In china, people celebrate Chinese Valentine’s Day, which has a long history. It is also called “Qixi Festival”or “Double Seventh Festival”, as the date is July 7th in lunar year. How did the festival get its name? It is said that, once upon a time, there was a cowboy called “Niulang” and a fairy called “Zhinu” who fell in love with each other. However, their love was not allowed by others just because a fairy couldn’t love a human being. As a result, Zhinu was forced to go back to the Heaven and not allowed to meet Niulang any other time beside the Double Seventh Day. It usually rains more or less on this evening of the year, after being separated on either side of the Milky Way as a punishment by the Lord of Heaven. The Chinese Valentines Day is comparably more romantic yet heartrending, because this is the only time of year when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl (Zhinu) meet each other cross the Milky Way. Luckily，their true love moved the magpie, which was regarded as a lucky bird in China. These helpful birds consist a bridge over the Milky Way and the lovers could met each other at that day. On this day, people will looked up towards the sky to look for the Milky Way, the stars stand for the couple and pray for their love. Young girls will pray for ingenuity by making some hand-made little bag and hope for a happy ending.

T he Western Valentine’s Day is February 14th, which originated in the ancient Rome. The third century AD, ancient Rome, there was a tyrant called Claudius Meadows. Ancient Rome has been continuous war, more than a tyrant Crowe recruited a large number of Sri Lankan citizens to the battlefield, complaints were heard everywhere. Crowe Meadows fly into a rage, he was not allowed to transmit orders to hold a wedding, not even all at once to be engaged in also to the dissolution of marriage. A boy called Valentinus performed secret weddings after Claudius banned marriage to prevent soldiers from deserting his armies. His action was heard by Crowe Meadows and Valentinus was arrested and put into prison. The boy was tortured and finally put to death. His friends buried him in great sorrow on February 14th. When they think of Emperor Claudius, they remember how he tried to stand in the way of love, and they laugh-because they know that love can't be beaten! And now t he Western Valentine’s Day has become a day for lovers who have a strong will of love. On that day, lovers give gifts to each other, young boys will choose roses and girls chocolates. You could see sweet and happy lovers everywhere in the street.

3. Conclusion

The differences of the origins and evolutions are clarified about the Chinese and western traditional festivals, and the cultural differences are compared between China

中国传统节日的英文翻译

春节the Spring Festival （New Year‘s Day of the Chinese lunar calendar）农历正月初一 元宵节（灯节）the Lantern Festival 农历正月十五 清明节the Qing Ming Festival/Tomb-sweeping Day四月五日 端午节the Dragon-Boat Festiva农历五月初五 中秋节the Mid Autumn Festival（the Moon Festival）农历八月十五 重阳节the Double Ninth Festival农历九月初九 其它节日的英文翻译 元旦New Year‘s Day 国际劳动妇女节International Working Women‘ s Day（Women‘s Day） 国际劳动节nternatlonal Labor Day（May. Day） 中国青年节Chinese Youth Day 国际儿童节International Childr en‘s Day（Children‘s Day）June .1 中国共产党诞生纪念日（党的生日）Anniversary of the Foundlng of the ChineseCommunist Party（the Party‘ s Birthday）July .1 建军节Army Day August .1 教师节Teachers ‘ Day 国庆节National Dey 各种传统节日的中英文介绍 1. 春节(农历一月一日) Spring Festival；Chinese New Year's Day 2. 元宵节(农历一月十五日) Lantern Festival 3. 清明节(4月5日)Tomb-Sweeping Day

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各种传统节日的中英文介绍 1. 春节(农历一月一日) Spring Festival；Chinese New Year's Day 2. 元宵节(农历一月十五日) Lantern Festival 3. 清明节(4月5日)Tomb-Sweeping Day 4. 端午节(农历五月初五) Dragon Boat Festival 5.中秋节(农历八月十五) Mid-Autumn (Moon)Festival 6. 重阳节(农历九月九日) Double-ninth Day 7.. 除夕(农历十二月三十日)New Year's Eve 【中国常见传统活动中英对照】 过年celebrate the spring festival 春联spring festival couplets 剪纸paper-cuts 年画new year paintings 买年货do shopping for the spring festival；do spring festival shopping 敬酒propose a toast 灯笼lantern 烟花fireworks 爆竹firecrackers (people scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.) 红包red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper，symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.)

舞狮lion dance (the lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.) 舞龙dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests) 戏曲traditional opera 杂耍variety show 灯谜riddles written on lanterns 灯会exhibit of lanterns 守岁staying-up 拜年pay new year's call；give new year's greetings；pay new year's visit 禁忌taboo 去晦气get rid of the ill- fortune 祭祖宗offer sacrifices to one's ancestors 压岁钱gift money；money given to children as a lunar new year gift culture note；inthe old days，new year's money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth 辞旧岁bid farewell to the old year 扫房spring cleaning; generalhouse-cleaning 年糕nian-gao; rise cake; new year cake

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普通范文 Dear John, I'm very glad to tell you something about Chinese Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the first day in Chinese lunar year and it's the most important festival in China. Before the festival comes, all the families clean their houses, put red couplets on their doors to pray for blessings and prepare various delicious foods. On New Year's Eve, family members get together to have a big meal and set off firecrackers. During the New Year, people say “Happy New Year” to each other. And children are very happy to get some gift money from their parents, grandparents and so on. I hope you can come to celebrate this special festival next year if possible. Best wishes. Yours, Li Hua 高级范文 Dear John, It's my pleasure to introduce you to Chinese Spring Festival. As the most significant Chinese traditional festival, the Spring Festival is the first day in Chinese lunar year and it marks the beginning of the New Year. With the festival approaching, all the families clean their houses, put red couplets on their doors to express sincere blessings and good wishes and prepare various delicacies. On New Year's Eve, people get together with their families to have a family reunion dinner and set off firecrackers. During the New Year, people say “Happy New Year” to each other. And what makes children very happy is getting some gift money from their parents and grandparents. I am expecting your coming to enjoy such a joyful festival next year if possible. Best wishes. Yours, Li Hua 【话题拓展】 Nowadays, many Chinese young people celebrate ... ... Festival, or ..., on the ... day of the ... lunar month, is a traditional festival full of love in China. The date of the festival is decided by the Chinese lunar calendar. ... was first celebrated in ... ... falls on ... The tradition dates / tracks back to ... The traditions originated in / from ... It is a custom which they thought would bring good luck. Chinese people have been celebrating this festival since ... It's the signal for the celebrations to begin. Everybody is part of the celebrations. Everybody has a good time. People forget their everyday problems and enjoy themselves eating and drinking.

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Second English papers Each nation has its own characteristic festivals that reflect the culture of itself、In China, as our country and western countries become increasingly closer, more and more chinese accept western culture、 However, some western festivals sometimes even more popular than traditional festivals, foreign cultural’s influence should not be underestimated、The main The main group of celebrating western festivals is youth group which takes students as the main force、People celebrate festivals such as Valentine's day, mother's day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day、In fact, because of the Chinese way of thinking, western holidays in China is just popular for Christmas and Valentine's day, not all western holidays attract people's attention、According to a survey of Central China Normal University, many college students know the existence of western festivals, but little of them know about their cultural connotations、In addition to Christmas, respondents who know other western festivals’meaning are less than 10%、Referring to the way to celebrating, in General, during the Festival, people send gifts such as flowers and greeting cards、They sing with friends, and bless or send

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Dear distinguished chief judge; As the defense attorney of my client, I have made many surveys in secret after I took over the case. According to my client and all the information I have inspected about the case, now I have an deep and comprehensive understanding about the case . Therefore , I want to show my opinions to you, and I hope the chief would accept them . . 1. The stolen car was found abandoned three hours after the theft with the engine still warm; at the time the car was found, my client was at the airport to meet the flight of a friend who was flying into town. 2. Lab analysis of muddy shoe prints on the floor mat of the car indicates that the prints came from a size 27 shoe; your client wears a size 25. 3. Lab analysis shows the presence of cigarette smoke in the car, but your client does not smoke. 4. The only eyewitness to the crime, who was 20 meters from the car, said the thief "looked like" your client; yet the eyewitness admitted that at the time of the theft she was not wearing her contact lenses, which had been prescribed for improving distance vision. 5. The car was stolen at about I p.m.; your client testified that he was in a town 400 kilometers away at 11 a.m. 6. In a statement to police, the eyewitness described the thief as tall; your client is short. Because of all the doubtful points , I think it is unfair to found guilty of theft to my client. Moreover, the basic standard of criminal sanction is that taking facts as a basis and laws as the criterion, so I hope the chief judge will give a reasonable judgment to my client finally. That’s all ,thanks.

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中国传统节日的英文翻译 春节the Spring Festival （ New Year‘s Day of the Chinese lunar calendar）农历正月初一 元宵节（灯节）the Lantern Festival 农历正月十五 清明节the Qing Ming Festival/Tomb-sweeping Day四月五日 端午节the Dragon-Boat Festiva农历五月初五 中秋节the Mid Autumn Festival（the Moon Festival）农历八月十五 重阳节the Double Ninth Festival农历九月初九 其它节日的英文翻译 元旦New Year‘s Day 国际劳动妇女节International Working Women‘ s Day （Women‘s Day） 国际劳动节nternatlonal Labor Day（May. Day） 中国青年节Chinese Youth Day 国际儿童节International Children‘s Day（Children‘s Day）June .1

中国共产党诞生纪念日（党的生日）Anniversary of the Foundlng of the ChineseCommunist Party（ the Party‘ s Birthday）July .1 建军节Army Day August .1 教师节Teachers ‘ Day 国庆节National Dey 各种传统节日的中英文介绍 1. 春节(农历一月一日) Spring Festival；Chinese New Year's 2. 元宵节(农历一月十五日) Lantern Festival 3. 清明节(4月5日)Tomb-Sweeping 4. 端午节(农历五月初五) Dragon Boat Festival 5.中秋节(农历八月十五) (Moon)Festival 6. 重阳节(农历九月九日) Double-ninth 7.. 除夕(农历十二月三十日)New Year's Eve 【中国常见传统活动中英对照】 过年 celebrate the spring festival 春联 spring festival couplets 剪纸 paper-cuts 年画 new year paintings 买年货 do shopping for the spring festival；dospring festival shopping 敬酒 propose a toast