英国文化简介论文

An simple introductionTo British cultureTerm paperBritish customsName: xxxxStudent ID: xxxxClass&major: xxxxBritish customsMain idea: British customs are wonderful and interesting, you can find many excellent masterpieces and brilliant paintings in some occasions. They are British most valuable cultural treasure, the customs has something to do with its locations. The mountains, rivers, forests, splendid mansions, all of them have a great influence on their culture.Outline:Ⅰ.An introduction to London and the influence which bring to Britain .Ⅱ. In the UK, Christmas calendar New Year's Day, although not as grand, but New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, or used in accordance with local customsⅢ .The Gothicismus movement took pride in the Gothic tradition that the Ostrogoths and their king Theodoric the Great who assumed power in the Roman Empire had Scandinavian ancestryⅣ .During the 17th century, Danes and Swedes competed for the collection and publication of Iceland manuscripts, Norse sagas, and the two Eddas.London is a cosmopolitan mixture of the Third and First worlds, of chauffeurs and beggars, of the establishment, the avowedly working class and the avant-garde. Unlike comparable Europeancities, much of London looks unplanned and grubby, but that ispart of its appeal. Visiting London is like being let loose on a giant-sized Monopoly board clogged with traffic. Even though you probably won't know where the hell you are, at least the names will look reassuringly familiar. The city is so enormous, visitors will need to make maximum use of the underground train system: unfortunately, this dislocates the city's geography and makes it hard to get your bearings.London is a year-round tourist center, with few of its attractions closing or significantly reducing their opening hours in winter. Your best chance of good weather is, of course, at the height of summer in July and August, but there's certainly no guarantee of sun even in those months and that is when you can expect the biggest crowds and highest prices.A resting place of the royals, Westminster Abbey, is one of the most visited churches in the Christian world. It's a beautiful building, full of morose tombs and monuments, with an acoustic field that will send shivers down your spine when the choirboys clear their throats. The roll call of the dead and honored is guaranteed to humble the greatest egoist, despite the weighty and ornate memorabilia.In the UK, Christmas calendar New Year's Day, although not as grand, but New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, or used in accordance with local customs and uniform to carry out all kinds of celebrations, to show to get rid of. The British New Year's Eve the night, often bring cakes and wine to go out to visit, they do not knock on the door, they go straight into the family and friends at home. According to British custom, night New Year's Eve 1000,after the first foot forward towards the house of people, heralding a new year of luck. If the first guest was a black-haired man, or a happy, happy and affluent people, the owner will be lucky to go good luck throughout the year. If the first guest is a light yellow hair and a woman, or a sad, poor, unfortunate people, the owner will be in the new year has been bad luck, would encounter difficultiesand disasters.Jia Zuoke New Year's Eve at the relatives and friends who, without talking before, we must first went to fiddle with fireplace fire, blessing master "open the door down." Britain's New Year's celebrations mostly in the New Year's Eve fire at night, "New Year Banquet," is one of this party into "family dinner" and "group banquet" two, banquets usually from 8 pm to begin the New Year's Eve until the early hours of New Year's Day end. Wine dinner with a variety of dishes and snacks for people to drink all night up and quantity of entertainment.At midnight, people turn on the radio to listen to church bells of the New Year's bell, bell ringing, people are a joy, toast, enjoy cheering, singing, "past the sun." "New Year's Eve" is another celebration. By the local hotels and dance parties, night fell. People dressed in their holiday best, from all directions, a new kitto these decorative lights brilliant dance, in the wonderful music in the dance, thousands of people, but also gathered to every square around the center of the square's fountain and Eros god elephant, singing and dancing, enjoy carnival.Square is also broadcast live on television to do so at this, "Shou Sui" who also share the joy.Gothicismus, Gothism, or Gothicism (Swedish: Göticism) is the name given to what is considered to have been a cultural movement in Sweden. The founders of the movement were Nicolaus Ragvaldi, the brothers Johannes Magnus, Olaus Magnus and Olof Rudbeck d.ä.. They all held the belief that the Goths had originally lived in Sweden. This belief continued to hold power in the 17th century, when Sweden was a great power following the Thirty Years' War, but lost most of its sway in the 18th. It was revitalized by national romanticism in the early 19th century, this time with the vikings as heroic figures.The name is derived from Jordanes's account of the Gothic urheimat in Scandinavia (Scandza), and the Gothicists in Sweden believed that the Goths had originated from Sweden. Some scholars in Denmark also attempted to identify the Goths with the Jutes, however, these ideas did not lead to the same widespread cultural movement in the Danish society as it did in the Swedish. In contrast with the Swedes, the Danes of this era did not forward claims to political legitimacy based on assertions that their country was the original homeland of the Goths and that the conquest of the Roman Empire was proof of their own country's military valor and power through historyThe Gothicismus movement took pride in the Gothic tradition that the Ostrogoths and their king Theodoric the Great who assumed power in the Roman Empire had Scandinavian ancestry.This pride was expressed as early as the medieval chronicles, where chroniclers wrote about the Goths as the ancestors of the Scandinavians, and it permeated the writings of the Swedish writer Johannes Magnus (Historia de omnibus gothorum seonumque regibus) and his brother Olaus Magnus (Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus). Both works had a large impact on contemporary scholarship in Sweden.During the 17th century, Danes and Swedes competed for the collection and publication of Iceland manuscripts, Norse sagas, and the two Eddas. In Sweden, the Icelandic manuscripts became part of an origin myth and were seen as proof that the greatness and heroism of the old Geats had been passed down through the generations to the current population. This pride culminated in the publication of Olaus Rudbeck's Atland eller Manheim, where he claimed that Sweden was identical to Atlantis.Reference:Contemporary British culture and society/question/1307050101315.html/question/115837417.html。