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The different meanings of animals The different culture between China and western The attitude toward dragon and phoenix The phoenix Both in China and west the phoenix has good meaning. In western the phoenix means that it can live again and there are a lot stories about it. In Chinese mythology, the phoenix is considered the king of birds. It usually have two: one is male we call it feng,the female one is called huang While Chinese people are afraid to see owl hear it’s sound. They think it stands for bad luck. Another animal: bat is taken as a bad animal in western but Chinese consider it as a symbol of happiness and health because it’s pronunciation like 福. In English there is as blind as a bat （有眼无珠） In ancient China people put long (dragon) and Feng (phoenix) as a traditional symbol of imperial power . Nowadays , the two legends of the animals are still occasionally in the traditional Chinese pattern emerged .We are proud of the dragon. Westerners think that dragon (long) is a symbol of evil that should be eliminated. Described in a number of saints and heroes mentioned in legends fight against this monsters deeds ,mostly the monsters have been killed . The figures of dragon are also very different. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chinese and English have many analogies, however, understand the metaphor（隐喻 ）of another language are not always easy .Have you ever heard a sentence: You chicken！” he cried looking at Tom with contempt． It means that you are not brave and not you are a chicken. The stork(鹳鸟） visited the Howard Johnstons yesterday. (Howard ? Johnston had a child.) (Instead of bird stork has a guest.) Students encountered such a sentence, do not know if the chicken means coward and a visit by the stork means the birth of the child may be puzzled . English-speaking people who learn Chinese can also find that it is hard to understand the following sentence: Do you really bear! In their opinion, bear is a dangerous and