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Abstract........................................................................1 Introduction…………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1 Important Traditional Festivals in China and Western
Countries Respectively……………………………………….5
1.1 Spring Festival and Christmas Day…………………………………5 1.2 Double-Seventh Day and Valentine’s Day………………………… 7 1.3 Mid-autumn Day and Thanksgiving Day……………………………8
Chapter 2 Common ground of traditional Chinese and western
festivals………………………………………………………10
2.1 Similarities in perspective of the functions of the festivals…………10 2.2 Similarities in perspective of the origins of the festivals……………11
Chapter 3 Differences of traditional Chinese and western festivals
3.1 The difference of the cultural backgroud…………………………..13 3.2 From the custom differences………………………………………15 3.3 Value Difference between China and Western countries…………16 3.4.Spiritual Difference in Ethnic Culture aspects……………………20
Chapter 4 The trend of the development of Chinese and Western
traditional festivals…………………………………………24
4.1 The integration of traditional festival culture…………………… 24 4.2. Comments on these studies………………………………………26
Conclusion…………………………………………………………29 Bibliography………………………………………………………30 Acknowledgements………………………………………………31
A Comparative Study on Chinese and
Western Traditional Festivals
Abstract: Culture is the soul carrier of human beings, and it’s the core value of one
country. Different countries have different cultures. Among all the elements that consist a nation’s culture, traditional festival culture is the most essential and richest one. Through comparing Chinese Spring Festival with Western Christmas Day, Double-Seventh Day with Valentines’ Day, Mid-autumn Festival with Thanks Giving Day, this thesis tries to find out and make a rough analysis on the similarities and cultural differences between Chinese and Western countries，and aims to promote cross-culture communication.
The thesis consists of four parts. The first part would focus on the main important traditional festivals both in China and western countries. After brief introduction in the form of comparison to the main festivals, there would be an analysis on the similarities and differences of traditional Chinese and western festivals in the second and third parts. And the fourth part will briefly explain the development trend of Chinese and western festival culture.In the last part of the thesis, there would be a brief conclusion.
摘要:文化是人类灵魂的载体,是一个国家的核心价值。不同的国家有不同的文化。在所有的元素是一个国家的文化,传统的节日文化,是最重要的、最丰富的。通过比较中国的春节同西方的圣诞节,Double-Seventh的日子,情人节、中秋节和感恩节,本文试图找到出去,把一个粗略的分析文化差异的异同点和中国和西方国家。
论文主要内容包括四部分组成。第一部分的焦点是主要的传统节日,无论是在中国和西方国家。简要介绍后的形式,主要节日相比,会有分析中国传统的异同与西方的节日中,在第二和第三部分。第四部分的发展趋势进行了简要说明中国和西方国家的节日文化。在最后一部分
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这篇论文中,会有一个简短的结论。
关键字:传统节日; 节日文化;中国; 西方国家
Introduction
Festival is defined as a special occasion on which people may give thanks for a harvest, commemorate an honored person or event, pay respect to the dead, or celebrate a culture.Festival is considered as “ a carrier of culture”, or an embodiment of the patterns of behavior and thinking that people learn, create and share. Through this unique and specific phenomenon, it is more convenient and direct for the researcher to probe into the deeper layer of human culture. 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 culture
On 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
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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.
Chapter 1
Important Traditional Festivals in China and Western
Countries Respectively
1.1 Spring Festival vs. Christmas Day
These two are the most important festivals in their own cultural systems. The Spring Festival is the chief holiday in China while Christmas is the most important red-letter day in the western world. People attach great attention to the celebration of these two festivals.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and it is an occasion for all family members to get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back to enjoy the family reunion. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. But strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days.
Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. For example: On the
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