中国生肖与西方星座的文化对比.docVIP

【标题】????中国生肖与西方星座的文化对比 【作者】王 庆 【关键词】中国文化；西方文化；生肖；星座 【指导老师】程 琼 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionCulture, usually defined as the total of material and spiritual products, shapes people’s speech, ways of life and thinking, aesthetic sense, etc. Consequently, everything we live with bears an indelible mark of our own culture. The twelve symbolic animals are part of Chinese culture which functions in classifying Chinese people born in different years. While, in western cultures, the twelve star signs serve people born in different months. A look at the Sino-western Zodiac can give us an idea