中西方文化差异之植物ByWaterBrother学习的资料.pptVIP

卖Ge 论中西方文化差异之植物篇 Cultural diffreneces in Plants Members 贺斯琦薛艳龚子君付梦琪 Foreword This week, our teacher gave us following four topics of our groupwork: I The differences between Chinese and Western culture in plants; 2. application of geomancy landscape; 3.The Zen thought and humanistic landscape; 4.Aesthetic and artistic landscape. After a fierce discussion we choose the first one as we all know there is a lot differences in plants betwwen Chinese and Western cluture. Whats the details of them? 众所周知,在中西方文化中对于植物有着不少的差异,那 么这些差异体现在哪里呢? Reasons In China. colorful flowers and trees have been the object of poets singing, so many flowers and trees have a wealth of meaning and cultural connotation 在中国,绚丽多彩的花草树木一直是文人墨客歌 咏的对象,因此许多花木具有了丰富的联想意义 和文化内涵 英语国家受西方古典神话和历史文化的影响 木情结悠久而强烈。由于文化背景和传统习俗等 的不同,两个民族对同一植物所引起的联想 也往往不一致,也就形成了汉英植物文化的差异 Content Words that quite different in associative meaning联想意义完全不同的词汇 -. Words that partly different in associative meaning联想意义部分不同的词汇 Vocabulary that has connotations in a/culty 仅在一种文化中有内涵的词汇 Eastern Meaning In Chinese culture, red bean is a endearing plant, also be called rosary pea, is a symbol of love 红豆在中国文化中是—种很讨喜的植物,又被人 们称作相思子,是爱情的象征。上到王公贵族 文人墨客,下至平民百姓,都有收集红豆送给爱 人,朋友和亲戚的习惯。从唐代始,人们就以 豆喻相思,更是留下红豆生南国,春来发几 愿君多采撷,此物最相思的名篇。 Western Meaning In western culture, red bean is derogatory a symbol of sacrifice to the small benefit preocular. The reasons that westerners hate red beans is from the biblical story of a bowl of red bean soup 在西方文化中红豆是贬义的,象征着为了眼前的 微小利益牺牲重大利益。西方人对红豆的厌恶源 自圣经中一碗红豆汤的故事。在《圣经·|旧约》 《创世纪》中,以扫为了一碗红豆汤把他的长 权卖给了他的兄弟雅各。现在人们多用碗红 汤来指为了一些微小的利益而放弃更重要的东西 的人 lotus荷花或莲花 Eastern meaing: In the Chinese culture, Lotus has always been the symbol of gentleman, and repeatedly used in architecture, sculpture, literature and painting 荷花在中国文化中一向以君子的形象出现,并反 复运用于建筑,雕塑,文学和绘画中。宋代词入 周敦颐曾盛赞荷花出淤泥而不染,濯清涟而不姎 荷花又被看作佛教和道教的圣物。释迦牟尼和观 音都以高居莲座的形象示人。观音手持白莲花 指引着信徒远离尘世的纷扰,进入那开满纯洁莲 花的净土 Western meaning In english, the lotus has the meaning of forgetting the trouble, Thi