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【标题】中西方葬礼文化比较 【作者】陈诺然 【关键词】丧葬礼仪；文化；差异；对比 【指导老师】张亚军 黄凤菊 【专业】英语 【正文】I.IntroductionIf life is a trip, funeral rites is the end of the long journey. Death for people who believe in reincarnation does not mean the end of life, but the conversion of life. In other words, death means that the person died from the human into the nether world. Funeral is to put the soul of the deceased to the underworld. The funeral ceremony refers to the etiquette of living deal with the deceased, and it is considered the last step of one’s whole life.When original human-being was in the world, they had a problem how to deal with the bodies. This is the beginning of funeral. Acheologists proved that the earliest original funeral appeared in China about 20,000 years ago. We can say the funeral is the oldest ceremony in human history. 1People’s life is limited. Funeral ceremony symbolizes the end of human’s life journey in the world. The activities we carry out around the deceased show many aspects of the real world. These activities have a lot of very close conections with people’s religion belives, ethical notions, national consciousness, customs, even the scheme of society scheme directly or indirectly. Different cultural backgrounds and religions cause the different funeral cunstoms. China and the English speaking countries all have long stories. It’s very difficult to show their funeral customs comprehensively and exactly.?In this thesis, the author will introduce the different funeral ceremonies customs, then search the root of these differences by comparing their different customs.?II.Chinese Funeral Ceremony CustomsTo Chinese people, death means the emancipation from earthliness. If people die in the house peacefully, when he/she is extremely old, we call his/her funeral?“white occasion”. As a very admirable way of death that one’s life ends at home without pain and desease is people’s long-cherished wish of liftime, and it’s also the glory of the family.A. Funeral