中西传统节日的对比概要1.doc

Content Abstract........................................................................1 Introduction…………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1 Important Traditional Festivals in China and Western Countries Respectively……………………………………….5 1.1 Spring Festival and Christmas Day…………………………………5 1.2 Double-Seventh Day and Valentine’s Day………………………… 7 1.3 Mid-autumn Day and Thanksgiving Day……………………………8 Chapter 2 Common ground of traditional Chinese and western festivals………………………………………………………10 2.1 Similarities in perspective of the functions of the festivals…………10 2.2 Similarities in perspective of the origins of the festivals……………11 Chapter 3 Differences of traditional Chinese and western festivals 3.1 The difference of the cultural backgroud…………………………..13 3.2?From the custom differences………………………………………15 3.3 Value Difference between China and Western countries…………16 3.4.Spiritual Difference in Ethnic Culture aspects……………………20 Chapter 4 The trend of the development of Chinese and Western traditional festivals…………………………………………24 4.1 The integration of traditional festival culture…………………… 24 4.2. Comments on these studies………………………………………26 Conclusion…………………………………………………………29 Bibliography………………………………………………………30 Acknowledgements………………………………………………31 A Comparative Study on Chinese and Western Traditional Festivals Abstract: Culture is the soul carrier of human beings, and it’s the core value of one country. Different countries have different cultures. Among all the elements that consist a nation’s culture, traditional festival culture is the most essential and richest one. Through comparing Chinese Spring Festival with Western Christmas Day, Double-Seventh Day with Valentines’ Day, Mid-autumn Festival with Thanks Giving Day, this thesis tries to find out and make a rough analysis on the similarities and cultural differences between Chinese and Western countries，and aims to promote cross-culture communication. The thesis consists of four parts. The first part would focus on the main impo