The influence of cultural differences on Chinese and American holidays开题报告

There are oral and written cultures, oral such as magical tales, celestial travel... written such as ancient Chinese Four Books and Five Classics, Western Bibles... and both written and oral can be collectively called literary works, many of them record the traditions of the holidays. Festivals are the days of the year which are endowed with special social and cultural significance and interspersed with daily life. They are the concentrated reflection of people's colorful life and the summary and extension of politics, economy, culture and religion of different regions, nations and countries. Studying the cultural connotation of Chinese and Western festivals from the perspective of cultural differences can help us better and more objectively understand Chinese culture, a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of foreign cultures that have positive significance for us, so as to improve the cross-cultural communication ability. Festival literature is the direct reaction of Festival folk-custom, and folk-custom at any time is the custom formed in folk-custom with the change of climate and phenology. Festival folk-custom is a unique form of expression of folk-custom at the age of. The festival literature not only records the development and changes of the festival, but also carries the information of the fashion and social changes of the time. There are many works and papers on the research of festival culture, among which comprehensive works account for the majority, for example, Chen Lihao's "folk story of Spring Festival" , Qin Guiying's "applied writing of cultural etiquette" , Xu Shuan's "knowledge of Chinese Culture" , xue Xiaoping's on Chinese and Western culture, Zhang Haiying's Chinese traditional festivals and culture, Di Weizhong's western traditional festivals and culture, and so on. Chinese festivals mainly originate from the solar term of the year, praying for their own good luck and happiness, and the festival custom takes eating and drinking as the theme, the main reason is that the Chinese people's pursuit of life aims at health and longevity, and is realized through diet; Festivals in the West are mainly derived from religion, seasons and related events in order to remember God and ask for his blessing. The theme of festivals and Customs is play. The main reason is that the pursuit of life in the West aims at health and happiness, and through religious and recreational activities. Chinese traditional festivals, basically formed and handed down in the feudal society, inevitably marked with the feudal brand: hierarchical, closed, family-style, all festivals are family, family activities as the center. The Western festival is different, it shows more people's interactive, carnival, emotional release of warm, self-centered, advocate personality publicity, thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day and so on.

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摘要

1 Introduction 

1.1 A festival that introduces the major traditions of China and the West

2 The different sources of Chinese and Western traditional festivals 

2.1Traditional Western sources of festivals

2.2The origin of Chinese traditional festivals

3The influence of festivals on People's daily life 

3.1Western festivals

3.2Chinese festivals

4The analysis of the influence of Chinese and American festivals from cultural differences

4.1Western festival culture

4.2Chinese festival culture

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