中西方婚礼文化对比---毕业论文.docVIP

【标题】中西方婚礼文化对比 【作者】丁默涵 【关键词】婚礼；差异；对比 【指导老师】张海霞 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionIn almost every kind of social culture, there are wedding customs. Human beings seem born with such a need: using a wedding to publicly determine the relationship between husband and wife. However, the form of wedding ceremony keeps changing with the progress of human society. Now the community of Western and Chinese wedding shows how wedding is in the form of constant change, which reflects the rich culture of the wedding and the collision of two cultures between western countries and China, and the blending of Chinese and Western culture.China is a country with an ancient civilization and a long history, and many customs. Among so many customs, there is a particular marriage custom. This custom goes through various and long stages of development from ancient simple wedding ceremony to later complex ceremony, from feudal marriage custom to the modern free marriage custom. During these courses, people’s ideas are progressing, though we can not say that their ideas are up to the top of mankind’s ideas in all over the world at all over the time because there are still backward ideas existing in many places, in many people’s mind and they maybe will still exist for a long time. However, they are up to the top of mankind’s ideas in a certain stage of the uninterrupted development of ideas.Compared with each other, they are both similar and different in many aspects such as in right aspect and in freedom aspect and there are many reasons that result in these differences such as cultural reason and geographical reason.II. Definition and Classification of Wedding Ceremonies under Different Cultures??? Since wedding plays a very important role in one’s life, the form of wedding ceremonies differs from culture to culture. As Chinas integrated with the international community, culture exchanges between China and the Western countries are more frequently, differences in cultural practices i