The comparative study between Chinese and American major festivals 英语毕业论文.docVIP

The comparative study between Chinese and American major festivals ⅠIntroduction A. The background and the purpose With the era developing, society is progressing. This is a multicultural era. Ancient and profound Chinese culture has a long history and is in the same strain. In this society, the western culture penetrated into our country quickly, and there is no doubt that during this time, cultural elements of China are colorful and various kinds of cultures are integration of the development through communication. This passage is aimed at discussing the comparative study between Chinese and American major festivals in order to hit the target that promoting the communication between Chinese and American cultures and the two parties’ nations are more impressed and clear to the mutual culture. B. The research situation in domestic and abroad In China, studying the festivals culture is still at elementary developing stage. Scholars often focus on the description of the festivals’ customs, whose key points are participation, observation and description of the festivals. And on the abroad, for the study of Chinese and Western festivals cultures, scholars just analyze from the differences between Chinese and western festivals customs. C. The research solution This passage mainly use comparison and examples, which compares from some aspects, such as the origin of two countries, the way of celebration, the way of diet and so on. ⅡThe origin and the general features between Chinese and American festivals A. The origin of Chinese and American festivals With the continuous development of the human society, festivals are produced. Festivals are mainly traditional events or activities that are held periodically by groups, for example, Chinese spring festival, the mid-autumn festival and American Christmas day etc. festivals are also called “time out of time” by the folk experts. Festival is a complex folk image and has very rich cultural connotations. So-called festival cu