A Study on the Culture of Chinese Tea and Western Coffee 中国茶文化和西方咖啡文化之研究.doc

广东外语外贸大学 商务英语本科毕业论文 ( 2013 届 ) 论文题目A Study on the Culture of Chinese Tea （英文） and Western Coffee 论文题目中国茶文化和西方咖啡文化之研究 （中文） 继教（公开）学院 商务英语 2013年5月6日  A Study on the Culture of Chinese Tea and Western Coffee Abstract: With the increasing trend of global economic development, China and western countries have attached importance to the development of all kinds of cultures from different regions. The cultures absorb and improve mutually, enjoying the pleasure and happiness from cultural communication and economic development. For example, Chinese tea culture and western coffee culture. China is the birthplace of tea which extends five-thousand-year history, and has been acting an important role in Chinese people’s life. Coffee is also very popular in any times or stages in western society, and is a part of their daily life. This paper mainly makes an introduction to tea culture, coffee culture and their influences. By the comparison between tea culture and coffee culture from the perspectives of history, beliefs, values and atmosphere, the paper aims to make people better understand the difference between Chinese culture and Western culture, and gives the representative examples of Chinese tea culture and Western coffee culture so as to prove the further positive fusion of economic development and the cultural communication between China and Western countries. Key words: Chinese tea culture; western coffee culture; cultural communication 中国茶文化和西方咖啡文化之研究 摘要: 伴随世界经济的无国界发展,中国与世界各地的国家和地区不断地深入交流和发展,各样的西方文化如潮水涌入具有五千年历史的中华古国,而中华之国粹也向世界展示着传播着。本文就中国几千年的茶文化和西方的咖啡文化作出研究, 通过阐述西方咖啡文化和中国茶文化的不同历史、信仰、价值观和氛围的不同来找出可以融会贯通的地方，向人们更好地介绍中国和西方的文化的差别和相似之处, 及其举例论证中国的茶文化和有代表性的西方国家咖啡文化的融会贯通在中国和西方国家的经济发展、文化交流的积极影响。关键词：中国茶文化；西方咖啡文化；文化交流 Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Chinese tea and western coffee 1 2.1 Origin of Chinese tea and western coffee 1 2.1.1 The origin of Chinese tea 1 2.1.2 The origin of western coffee 2 2.2 Cla