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The relationship between culture and lyric The Differences Between Chinese and American Lyric —— From intercultural aspect Group Five GROUP FIVE GROUP MEMBERS 林彦廷 耿祎楠 黄晓瑞 刘文娟 High and low context differences Time orientation differences Individualism and collectivism Summary CONTENTS High context in Chinese lyrics r. Communicative context of the Chinese is high-context, because the Chinese inherits the introverted and implicit part of Confucian culture . Chinese lyrics express emotions more circuitous and tortuous, and the meanings are more obscure,people can not understand the artistic conceptions if they do not savor the lyrics. 刘文娟 刘文娟 千里之外 “天在山之外雨落花台我两鬓斑白，闻泪声人林寻梨花白只得一 行青苔，你从雨中来诗化了悲哀我淋湿现在，芙蓉水面采船行影 犹在你却不回来，被岁月覆盖你说的花开过去成空白” Low context in American lyrics English is Hypotaxis language, it aims to express the emotions directly, so it belongs to the low-context communication. The lyrics always be concise and comprehensive, come straight to the point, and more narrative. 刘文娟 Three time orientation American anthropologist Kluckhohn (克拉克洪） proposed a theory that is “Three time orientation”.The three time orientation conclude the past, the present and the future . 黄晓瑞 Past -oriented culture people prefer the past -oriented culture think the classical things is more important to them. Chinese tend to the past -oriented culture. People belong to the future-oriented culture, they will think the future is more important . Such as American people. Future-oriented culture 黄晓瑞 Past -oriented culture in the lyrics of Chinese song 黄晓瑞 1.Chinese culture is very focused on learning and research on ancient culture. 2.One of the important characteristics is that the lyrics is more like poetic lyrics, as well as the classical poetry style . 3. lyrics with the China wind is loved and sought after（吃香的）among many people. JAY Zhou 《青花瓷》 ”素胚勾勒出青花笔锋浓转淡，瓶身描绘的牡丹一如你初妆，冉冉檀香透过窗心事我了然，宣纸上走笔至此搁一半，釉色渲染仕女图韵味被私藏，而你嫣然的一笑如含苞待放。“ 黄晓瑞 Examples 《兰亭序》：兰亭临贴，