中西方文化差异(英文版)精编版

China
Western
Vs
countries
Education
Section one
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Section three
Value of education
China
Western countries
Care about the reputation in educating in the child.
Spring festival
• ○5On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko. （腊月的第8天，许多家庭做腊八粥，糯米，小 米，薏苡种子，红枣浆果，莲子，豆类，龙眼， 银杏制成美味的粥样。）
The western people’s opinion about loving is that “if we are well acquainted with each other ,let us go together.”And they will not contact loving with marriage.
Western-style banquets, friendship is the core of the banquet, with guests sitting next to the conversation between the purpose of friendship . They use knife and fork to eat instead of chopsticks .
（书读百遍，其义自见）
Seeking the knowledge from nature and life.
Education punishment
China
Western countries
Emphasize reserve .
One can not become a useful person without being beaten.
Our topic:
The culture difference between china and western countries .
Differences
Section one
Section two
Section three
Education Eating and drinking Loving and marriage
Western countries
Emphasize mechanical （机械的）memorizing .
Emphasize the child’s “power of understanding”.
If the book is read hundreds of times , its meaning is shown naturally .
In China, a banquet, no matter what purpose, only have one form that we lost in a fog sitting around, sharing one seat . And people in China use chopsticks to eat what they want .
Loving and marriage
Section one
Section two
Section three
Loving attitude
China
Western countries
The people in China hold the idea that loving is very holy and they think loving is the prelude（前奏）of the marriage .
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randomness
other "hard food."
The diet object
China
Western countries
The diet ways
China
Western countries
Using the encouraging language.
Pay great attention to individual quality and the emotional communication.
Eating and drinking
Section one
Section two
Section three
The diet object
China
Western countries
China's cuisine is "taste", so Westerners think the cuisine
the Chinese cooking at the is eat, so a large piece of meat-
Spring festival
• ○3Strictly 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. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year. （严格地说，春节是指从腊月初 开始一直到第二年中旬的一个月。其中，最重 要的日子是除夕和一年的前三天。现在中国政 府规定，人民在中国农历新年有七天的休假。）
Marriage ways
China
Western countries
In China the bride and bridegroom would in red ,because we believe the red color represents lucky and the wedding would be host in the bridegroom’s house .
Spring festival
• ○ 1The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. (春节是中国人民最重要的节日，所有 家庭成员聚在一起，在西方圣诞节一样。所有 远离家乡的人都要回家，成为了为期半个月左 右的运输系统最繁忙的时间——春运。机场， 火车站和长途巴士站都挤满了回家的人。)
The diet concept
China
Western countries
Chinese food pay more attention to color, aroma, taste, and shape rather than nutrition.
Western food is a rational concept. They think the food’s nutrition is the most important.
Spring festival
• ○4Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened. （春节的时候有不少传统习俗。有的 人至今还在保持，不过有的人已经慢慢淡化了 这种习俗。）
Spring festival
• ○6The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve（小年）. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves. （腊月23日， 被称为小年。在这个时候，人们祭祀灶神。但 是现在，大多数家庭做出美味的食物来过节。）
In American the bride always in her white wedding gown and their wedding will be host in a church.
Marriage ways
China
Western countries
brief sum-up
At last ,I sum up the culture difference between china and the western countries in one sentence : Chinese people pay attention to “Heaven”（天人合一）, Westerners focus on “people-oriented” （以人为本）.
Spring festival
• ○2The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. （春节落在正月的第一天，往往比公 历晚一个月。它起源于商朝（西元1600 BC-C。 公元前1100年）从人民祭祀神灵和祖先，在旧 的一年结束和一个新的开始。）
Beyond that , what Chinese and western cultural differences ?
除此之外，还有哪些中西方 文化差异呢？
Traditional Festivals
• China
• Western countries
• Spring festival
• Christmas
Spring festival
Education is just for survival.
The education’s goal is for Emphasize “ the learned making their living , for honor. education” .
Education method
China