日本文化(国外英语资料).doc

日本文化Eastern and Western religion are essentially different, so is not only adhere to the China characteristic Chinese, even out of Asia into Europe and the West are close to the Japanese, religious belief, and Westerners have a great distance. Generally speaking, the Chinese people are atheists, and in contrast, the Japanese are mostly polytheism. But although Japanese are polytheistic religion, which is exactly the same, that is God (Japan teaches), Christianity and buddhism.The three great events that Japanese experience in their life, birth, marriage and death, are the experiments of the three religions. The three religious beliefs of the Japanese derive from a different understanding of birth, marriage, and death.Japanese was born, first to the shrine to worship, bless the traditional Japanese religion accept gods. God is Japans inherent religious cult, according to the statement, the Japanese emperor is the son of God, so after the death of emperor, to establish a shrine to the emperor. Tokyos famous Meiji shrine and the shrine commemorates the emperor Meijis religious sites. Of course, this is a shrine of great size. In Japan, the small residential community, there are often many small shrines, such as the Chinese or TuDeMiao, bless a land of peace. Yes, in the Chinese notorious repute shrine, the shrine is god.When the child is born, in addition to go to the city office or district service registration account, but also to visit the shrine, tantamount to go to the shrine registered a religious account.Born in Japan is the protection of God God of the gods, but when he got married, but now basically is to hold the wedding in the Christian church. As shown in the movie, the priest to marry both men and women, and then asked, are you willing to marry XXX as your wife? Or, would you like to marry someone like that? Such weddings are more attractive than traditional Japanese weddings. Therefore, the average Japanese wedding is held in the church.Not only the weddi