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1、【标题】中西方婚俗文化差异 【作者】贺 娟 【关键词】婚姻文化；跨文化交际；差异 【指导老师】张亚军 方明超 【专业】英语 【正文】I. Introduction Marriage is the basic system and form that both sexes combine in society. The marriage culture is produced with the development of marriage, which reflects a certain marriage conception. Marriage custom not only incarn
2、ates the social appearance in some times, but also shows values, ways of thinking, and religious beliefs of one nation.1 In ancient China, people thought highly of marriage culture. Ancient people regarded marriage as the primary and incipience of all decorum. Chinese long history and abundance cult
3、ure have penetrated into marriage culture, so it is the cohesion of Chinese culture. While because of geography, nationality, history, religious beliefs and other aspects, the marriage culture in western countries is different from Chinese. Therefore, this paper has discussed the differences of marr
4、iage culture among Chinese, British and American. Firstly, it has introduced some similarities of marriage culture between China and Western Countries. Secondly, it has described ancient and modern Chinese marriage culture, the British and American marriage culture. Besides, it has introduced some m
5、ain differences, such as the wedding process, the wedding dress, the wedding car and other details. Finally, it analyzed the causes of differences, including religious beliefs, the ways of thinking. II. Similarities of Marriage Culture between China and Western Countries Every country has her nation
6、ality, but they have some similarities. No matter in China or Western Countries, marriage is a great turning point in life. Both of people all pay great attention on it, and they always choose a nice day, which is sunny and propitious time, so wedding date is very important in every country. In anci
7、ent China, people would like to choose an auspicious day based on lunar calendar, which meant the couple would love each other and live a good life in the future. Similarly, the foreigners also choose a perfect day to hold wedding. For example, in England men hate to hold wedding in May. Because May
8、 has been considered an unlucky month to marry in. In addition, Fridays were considered unlucky particularly Friday the 13th. There has a famous old rhyme advises a wedding of the week. “Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses, Sa
9、turday for no luck at all.2 At present, western cultures have made great influences on Chinese wedding, so they also have some similarities. We can see that many young people would like to hold their weddings in church. Moreover, in wedding, the bride wears wedding veil, the groom dresses suit and n
10、ecktie, their relatives and friends are all sit there to make bless for them. After the wedding, the bride will stand back the other people and then throw a red ball to the unmarried female. As the story says, no matter who got the ball, she would be married soon or later. So all the unmarried femal
11、es stand together and try their best to gain it. Besides, many newlyweds would like to take their honeymoon, a one-to- two week vacation trip, to celebrate their new marriage. III. Differences of Marriage Culture between China and Western Countries A. Marriage Culture of China 1. Traditional Marriag
12、e Culture In ancient China, the model of traditional marriage culture including six etiquettes. The first step was proposing, which was very important in ancient China. Because it was the first time to meet with each other for the two families. If a males parents liked someones daughter and thought
13、she had some qualities to become their daughter-in-law, they would appoint a matchmaker carried with some presents to the identified girls family. If the girls parents would like to agree this proposal, they would send someone who carried with some presents to the boys family in return. The second s
14、tep was asking name. In ancient times, the girls name did not tell others until she chosen husband. In fact, it was not only to know the girls name, but also to write down the girls birthday and birth-hour on paper, which used to make a divination. In this step, matchmaker played an important role i
15、n communication. We knew in Chinese traditional marriage, people qualified a validity marriage for parents and matchmaker. In ancient, a boy wanted to make a proposal with a girl, and the girl also enjoyed him, but she refused his requirement. She said that she could not accept his mind because he n
16、ot had matchmaker.3 Today we will be confused for her words. While in ancient times, without a matchmaker, their marriage would be immorality. The next step was birthday matching. After asking the name, males parents would appoint the matchmaker to ask for the girls birthday and birth hour to assure the compatibility of the potential bride and groom. The divination included two aspects: the first was asking womens qualit
