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1、The Comparison of Chinese and Western Wedding Culture Of contemporary wedding also get the influence of western culture, a lot of wedding are held in cathedral now. Besides in cathedral, also can hold wedding inside divine organized body, fane. Considering go attending wedding breakfast to go to the
2、 lavatory subsequently, the bridal assembly hall that having banqueting hall or it is the person that wedding holds inside the hotel very much also. Inside knot wedding hall and hotel, set simple and easy mind table and week room, can suit hold various ceremony. But, why to no matter use,plant form,
3、 interesting is to both sides exchanges marriage ring this one annulus. The ceremony of back-to-back move is wedding breakfast. Everybody dines livelily together, attendant is congratulated to bridegroom bride. Still have cabaret additionally, feast cent is waited a moment for type of Western-style,
4、 Chinese style, day, no matter which are planted circumstance, have quite partial content is a kind of luxury. It is among banquet, the bride is changed commonly 1, 2 dresses, for example the type before the god bridal bridal at first wears white kimono, change the kimono with chromatically luxurian
5、t colour subsequently, high even evening dress, although bridegroom did not change clothes often, but turn by kimono in the bride when foreign outfit, also can cooperate transhipment of through cargo. After wedding breakfast, the friend that has bridegroom bride only commonly attends, open a banquet
6、 that is without estrangement, this is called meet 2 times . After bridal end, most sweethearts can set foot on the journey that newly-married travels. And western wedding is grave gravity, beautiful romance, be unforgettable! Bible in say, in fast ancient, the man proposes to the woman what using e
7、xhibit is ring. When 9 centuries, pope Buddhist nun is ancient pull generation to issue a decree, stipulating the man gives marriage give up to give the woman is to propose formally indispensable program. The colour of bridal formal attire is representing a tradition, also have its specific meaning,
8、 for example white representings pure Tong Zhen. Bride of the United States, England chooses * formal attire indicative Angus and abundant. The bride adorned that day in wedding the consuetudinary long-standing of tire, archaic woman is in comfortable marriage age head garland, in order to distingui
9、sh at married woman, indicative Tong Zhen. At first bridal veil is young with Tong Zhen indicative, and the bridal veil with Catholic believe in represents chasteness. Accordingly, a lot of brides are driven when going to cathedral to hold wedding, choose to wear double deck veil. Bridal father give
10、s the daughter after bridegroom, open veil with ones own hands by bridegroom. The flower represents * and award, transmit the message with a kind of abundant, outstanding prosperity. The person that favour receives bridal bouquet will have lucky energy of life, also will be the person of next happy
11、match happy a knot. The bride stands in the left of bridegroom commonly, this consuetudinary traceable grabs the time of marriage be current. Because fear domestic person of the bride is met,grab the bride on wedding go back, bridegroom must vacate the right hand to come at any time accept a challen
12、ge. The basis is consuetudinary, wedding ends with the kiss declare of new personality. This one kiss is full of profound meaning: Pass a kiss, the breath of a person and partial soul stay inside another individual body, love makes they close 2 for one. 。For instance, red is the color appeared most
13、in Chinese wedding,as it represent good luck and indicates that couples will live happily ever after. However,black and white are most commonly used in Western wedding, they represent the sublimity of marrige.There are also diifences in what people wear in their wedding.In China,brides wear Chinense
14、 traditional cheong-sam, while in the Western brides usually wear white knop dresses.Double Happiness A large Chinese character, Double Happiness, on a red piece of paper or in paper cut is always put where it must strike the eyes on a young couples wedding. It has a story behind it.In the ancient T
15、ang Dynasty, there was a student who was on the way to the capital to attend the national final examination, in which the top learners would be selected as the ministers in the court. Unfortunately, he fell ill halfway when he passed through a mountain village. Thanks to a herbalist doctor and his d
16、aughter, he was taken to their house and treated well. He recovered quickly due to the father and the daughters good care. Well, when he had to leave, he found it hard to say goodbye to the pretty girl, and so did she. They fell in love. So the girl wrote down the right hand part of an antithetical
17、couplet for the student to match:Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration.Well, I can make it though it is not easy. But youll have to wait till I have finished the examination. replied the student. The young girl nodded in significance
18、.In the examination the young man won the first place, who was appreciated by the emperor. Also the winners were interviewed and tested by the emperor. As luck would have it, he was asked by the emperor to finish a couplet, which would need a right part as the answer. The emperor wrote:Red flowers d
19、ot the land in the breezes chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.The young man realized immediately the right part of the couplet by the girl was the perfect fit to the emperors couplet, so he took the girls part as the answer without hesitation. The emperor was delighted to see the
20、matching half of his couplet was so talent and harmonious that he authorized the young mans identity as Minister in the court and allowed him to pay a visit to his hometown first before holding the post. The young man met the girl happily at home and told her the emperors couplet. They soon got marr
21、ied. For the wedding, the couple DOUBLED the Chinese character, HAPPY, together, on a red piece of paper and put it on the wall to express the happiness for the two events. And from then on, it has been taken on and became a social custom.Spree in the Bridal Chamber Though many traditional activitie
22、s can no longer be seen at a Chinese wedding, the spree in the bridal chamber is still common both in the country and in town.The spree happens after the feast when the bride and groom go back into their chamber. Relatives and friends and neighbors, any one at the wedding in fact, can come in to pla
23、y all kinds of tricks on the new couple, especially the bride. They make a lot of noise so that there is an extremely lively atmosphere in the room, which is believed to be an inseparable part of a jolly wedding.Some say that this custom goes back to Han Dynasty （206 B.C.A.D. 220）. Others say it was
24、 first started by Emperor Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the Northern Song Dynasty （9601127）. As historical records say that Zhao was concerned about his subjects and often made personal investigation among them. One day, he was traveling in a suburb of the capital city when he came across a wedding.
25、 When he learned that the groom was too poor to hire a musical band, he pretended to be the head of a band and called in his royal band to play at the wedding. At night, as Zhao remembered that it was an unlucky day according to the divination, he stayed at the yard with his military counselor Mr. M
26、iao, so that they might be helpful in case any mishap happened to the couple. They sat in the dim moonlight playing chess. After midnight, they caught sight of a ghost climbing over the brick fence. Zhao picked up a wooden bar and ran up to the ghost. He knocked down the ghost only to find that it w
27、as a burglar wearing a mask, who had often been stealing property from newly married homes.Emperor Zhao returned to the palace and made an announcement that at all weddings there should be relatives, friends and neighbors to stay around the brides and grooms and that all should be permitted to spree
28、 to keep off any eventualities. 1. In the West, in the love men and women want to marry, must first propose (propose) by the grooms family to the brides side, when proposing the grooms family should bestow the betrothal ring to the brides side (an engagement ring). Therefore, when the people mention
29、ed when “He gave her a ring”, its significance usually is He proposed to her, she accepted, and they are now engaged. (the grooms family proposes to the brides side, brides side accepted proposed, two people already had now become engaged). 2. Engagements men and women should consider immediately th
30、eirs marriage plan the respective parents, usually by brides parents announced that becomes engaged with the wedding ceremony. According to the tradition, bears the majority of wedding ceremony expense by brides family, but bridegroom family Fang Ze is responsible to have a dress rehearsal the feast
31、 and other matters concerned. The wedding ceremony starts previous 1-2 days should officially to have a dress rehearsal, does the goal is causes to participate in wedding ceremonys each people to be familiar with them to want the routine procedure at the wedding ceremony. 3. The wedding ceremony in
32、the Western country is a very important situation, in the hold wedding ceremony first several weeks, the relatives and friends will receive the invitation letter. The wedding ceremony is moreover is held in the church in the daytime, if you attain the invitation, then when attends the wedding ceremo
33、ny the clothing should be official. The female guest puts on the cocktail party formal clothes either the long shirt adds the holiday coat or the woolen sweater; The male guest wants to put on the formal clothes. It is noteworthy that woman puts on the pants is inappropriate, regardless of the pants
34、 are any color. 4. Gives a present is the custom which many nationalities altogether have, then time relatives and friends marriage what delivers well? We provide some principles for everybody reference: First is possibly the goods which likes for the accepting gifts person, next do not be too expen
35、sive, has is again must have the usability. Delivers the wedding present to have one one year “the permission period”. So long as you the marriage first anniversary commemoration day send out the gift in newlyweds are may. Traditional gift including silverware, chinaware, crystal product as well as
36、durable thing. However, presents wedding present also includes the electric appliance equipment and the practical goods. 5. in this dialogs, Nancy introduced their common good friend Dana recent situation to Scott. Makes Scott to feel what trifle surprised is, Dana must marry with hers boyfriend Dav
37、id. Nancy is Dana feels happy to Scott. hear about, hears about somebody (something) news. Have you heard about Dana? Dai recent situation you have heard? Moreover, also has two commonly used phrases about hear, one is hear from, Italy is “receives somebodys incoming letter, to come the electricity
38、and so on”; Another is hear, has heard. The attention, not hear of sth is “does not permit something” the meaning, for instance, He wont hear of my walking home alone. he does not permit my independent person of walk home.6. Other than that hows she doing? Besides that her other aspects are what kin
39、d of? The beforehand textbook always like this teaches us, when gives regards to the human may say How are you? However in fact the modern people - - specially are the young people when greeting often more said that How are you doing? Hoped that everybody can remember this usage. Moreover, just so-s
40、o, the meaning is “the generalization, but also calculated that assembles”. 7. When Scott asked Nancy, Dana also when with the David appointment, Nancy returns to “They are getting married.”The meaning is, they must marry. Asks everybody to pay attention, what here with when is the present carries o
41、n, but expressed the meaning is actually the matter which occurs. The Oriental since the ancient times, likes with the strong color expressing own joyful and the jubilation; The westerner, specially the reverent Jesuss followers, are embark from the religious good faith, thought that mens and womens
42、 union is holy, represents sacredly is bearing children the life start, must therefore use the holy white to adorn it, this is most perfect. Therefore, westerners wedding ceremony multipurpose white arranges, from the ancient church wedding ceremony to the modern vanguard wedding ceremony, sees the
43、brides to put on the snow white nuptial dress all, pulls is dodging the pearly luster white slightly to carry the package, what on the pure white gauze glove is holding is one big holds the powdery white lily. Such custom has continued for several hundred years, until now has not changed. In the wed
44、ding ceremony matches the bridesmaid, the boy, the best man and the welcoming guests idea stems from this kind of belief, namely will envy the new person happy evil spirit to brave to injure them, but if at the wedding ceremony will have permits the minute clothing similar person, can confuse the sp
45、irit. Matches best mans custom to trace that kind of age probably, the bridegroom often wanted to use a friend at that time to go to the new maternal home to kidnap her. The bell dingdong makes noise at the wedding ceremony is originally to frighten off the evil spirit, but in the wedding ceremony b
46、efore holds the lively celebration party is also for expels these evil spirits from the new person and their relatives and friends. This is the eagle meeting and the hen meeting origin. At the westerner wedding ceremony finds at everywhere the flower, from the church to the hotel, slightly to church
47、 in each chair, there is no place does not have flowers existence. They like the use pink color department the flower, powdery white, the powder is blue, flesh color, the powder is green, powder purple, light creamy yellowMoreover they like using the fresh flowers, will not use the artificial flower
48、. Generally marries every time to the new person, fresh flowers amount of use is quite big. Finds at everywhere is the flower, because of each splendid attire attendance woman, no matter its age, can put on a wad flower in the chignon place to show to new peoples respect. In the Western country, usu
49、ally wedding ceremonys activity is throws the ball-flower the game, other slightly play are very few. After a step church, the bride must carry turns around to throw backward hands in ball-flower, which female guest finally is received by, she is the next happy bride. Therefore in this time, all unmarried female guests can stand the preceding row to come on own initiative, prepares for snatches the ball-flower, what for is the self-satisfied brides happy expr