Culture Smart 中西方婚礼之比较.pptVIP

Chinese traditional standards of mate are innocence and well-matched family background. Innocence is the basic request put forward by men ,because they think such girls will take a vow of chastity, respect the parents-in-law, and keep family harmonious. As for well –matched family background ,it is always the parents’ demand. In the classical Chinese love novels, the love between poor scholars and rich girls was often opposed by the parents. If a poor girl wanted to marry a rich man ,she would only become a concubine. Nowadays ,people may not abide the two basic request, but most of the boys are in favor of those virtuous and innocent girls, and most of the girls will attach importance to the boys’ income ,family background, educational background as well a s their appearance. In west, husbands and wives can seek jobs outside and carry the possibilities of finance together. They also do housework together. If you’re invited to a westerner’s home, you’ll find that it’s common for the husband to cook. Differences of Matrimony between East and West Four aspects of the differences: The purpose of matrimony The relationship between the couples The standard of mate The wedding ceremony Chinese people’s purposes of matrimony In the old society, the purposes are to form a connection—expanding the alliances among the relatives by intermarriage and to help the man’s family to carry the family line. In the modern society ,these traditional purposes have encountered big strikes. Teenagers tend to believe “the God named Love”. Westerners’ purposes of matrimony Second, westerners want to seek a contrasexual mate who can accompany them permanently. Thus can meet their physiological and mental needs. .First, people who have fallen in love wish a consummate love. Western society always emphasize on the development of independence. There