The difference between culture in Chinese and Western:
1 More point, more interest;华文书就会比较多形容词,使你读得更生动
2 I think westtern people will more interest then Chinese people(At photography aspect)
3 中方文化:食用筷子
1,中国用筷子,外国用刀叉。first,in china people use chopstiks and foreigner use folk and knife.
2,中国习惯聚餐,外国喜欢分餐制。second,in china people like eating meal in one plate but foreigner like everybody have a plate and eating thireslves food.
3,中国人吃饭喜欢谈事情,外国人吃饭一般保持安静。 third,people like talking on table in china,foreigner always keep quite . 4,中国人餐桌比较短,外国人餐桌比较长。forth,in china the table was shorter than foreigner.5,主食不同,中国是米饭,外国是面包。fivth,diffrent from main food ,chinese like rice,foreigner like bread.自己想着写的,也不能及时给你真不好意思。
中西之间文化肯定是有差异的,中西约会之间的文化差异肯定也是存在的,中国人嘛,如果男女约会讲究的就是男人付钱,西方国家就不是这样,先发货,让他解决,这就是所谓的AA制这两种制度也没有分什么好与不好,只是说有些东西只适合东方,有些东西只适合稀饭
语音的差异。
语音分为语调、音调、音节。中国语调有感叹、疑问、陈述等。单从语调就可听出是问话还是感叹。音调包括“一声,二声,三声,四声,轻声”。读起来抑扬顿挫,响亮好听,有规则、音节,就是单音节、基本不存在什么闭音节,如“ha”加上“t”,就只能从英文中找位置了,成了“hat”,西方的语言文字是要讲究开音节、闭音节的,包括轻音节、重音节,并且有单音节、多音节。这些特征决定了根本上的差异。
一、起源不同
1、中国传统节日的起源:中国是一个有着古老东方文明的国家。其悠久的历史和优良传统为传统节日的成长提供了肥沃的土壤。作为一个农业国,中华文化深深根植于农业。因此,农 业活动使得节日更具有地方性色彩。
春节与一些农业活动,如种植、收获,有着密切的联系。作为中国最重要的节日,春节的起源可以追溯到几千年来不断进化的一系列丰富多彩的传说和传统。
2、西方传统节日的起源:在西方国家,宗教是文化和社会的中心。人们的思想可以通过宗教来反应。与此同时,宗教通过人类对上帝或精神的信仰控制着他们。可以毫不夸张地说,宗教存在于各行各业。因此,节日与基督教有着密切的联系,除了圣诞节,复活节也与宗教有关。
二、庆祝方式不同
1、庆祝中国节日的方式:春节对每一个中国人以及海外华人来说都是最重要的节日。它的庆祝活动丰富而且隆重。节日活动丰富多彩。林语堂,著名的华人学者,曾经对春节做了一个 很好的描述道,古老的中国农历新年,对中国人民来说是一年中最大的节日,相比之下,其他节日似乎黯淡许多。
2、庆祝西方节日的方式:在平安夜,绝大多数庆祝圣诞节的人们都会在他们自己家里举行一个特殊的节日庆祝仪式。家人们通常会装饰下那棵圣诞树然后把彩色包装的礼物都放在下面。在圣诞节那天,同样有许多庆祝的活动。在圣诞节交换礼物、赠送圣诞贺卡给亲朋好友是全世界庆祝圣诞的习俗。
三餐饮不同
1、东方餐饮:中国的菜肴是“吃味”的,所以中国烹调在用料上也显出极大的随意性:许多西方人视为弃物的东西,在中国都是极好的原料,外国厨师无法处理的东西,一到中国厨师手里,就可以化腐朽为神奇。
2、西式餐饮;与中国饮食方式的差异更为明显的是西方流行的自助餐。此法是:将所有食物一一陈列出来,大家各取所需,不必固定在位子上吃,走动自由,这种方式便于个人之间的情感交流,不必将所有的话摆在桌面上,也表现了西方人对个性、对自我的尊重。西方人认为菜肴是充饥的,所以专吃大块肉、整块鸡等“硬菜”。
中西方吃饭付费文化差异主要体现在是AA制还是一个人付。在中国一般情况下,请吃饭的那个人坐东,也就是谁请吃饭,谁付账,当然,作为客人,你也不能随便带其他的人来,点菜的时候也要足够的尊重做东的人。
西方人吃饭,有的地方喜欢AA制,但并不是全部。
对比注重“味道”的中国饮食,西方秉持的是一种理性饮食观念。
在中国人固有的意识和想法里,一味追求身心的放松,花费时间精力在娱乐活动上,是安于一隅的表现。而西方人则是追求精神生活,他们会在空闲时间开派对,放松身心;他们喜欢表现个性,追求与众不同。
现如今在西方,尤其是在年轻人当中,开始流行一种新的消费观念:buy experience,not things.(买体验,而不是东西。)调查显示,新鲜的经历带给人们的喜悦比商品带来的喜悦要更加长久。
美国康奈尔大学的一项心理学研究发现,新鲜经历或一项新学的手艺与一件新商品最初带给人们的喜悦程度不相上下,但是随着时间的推移,人们对物品的喜悦程度逐渐下降,而对旅行的回忆和新的手艺依然令他们兴奋如初。
中西方的饮食文化差异主要体现在以下几个方面:
1. 食材选择:中餐食材丰富多样,包括蔬菜、肉类、海鲜、豆腐等,强调食材的本味。而西餐食材相对较少,主要以牛肉、鸡肉、猪肉等为主,注重食材的鲜嫩度和烹饪技巧。
2. 烹饪手法:中餐烹饪手法多样,包括炒、炖、煮、蒸、煨等,强调火候和控制。而西餐烹饪手法相对简单,以烤、炸、煎、烩为主,注重食材的搭配和调味。
3. 调味方式:中餐调味复杂多变,讲究五味调和,注重探索各种调味品的搭配,如酱油、醋、糖、料酒、葱、姜、蒜等。而西餐调味相对简单,主要以盐、胡椒、奶油、黄油等为主,注重凸显食材的本味。
4. 餐具使用:中餐餐具主要以筷子为主,勺子为辅,碗盘用来盛放食物。而西餐餐具以刀叉为主,盘子用来盛放食物,酒杯用来饮用酒水。
5. 进餐礼仪:中餐进餐礼仪强调长幼有序,主客有别,进餐时相互敬酒、劝菜,体现亲情和友情。而西餐进餐礼仪注重个人独立,进餐时一般不说话,注重享受食物和氛围。
6. 餐桌氛围:中餐餐桌氛围一般较为热闹,家人和朋友围坐在一起,共享美食。而西餐餐桌氛围相对安静,注重个人空间的尊重和私密性。
当然,这些差异并不是绝对的,随着文化的交流和融合,中西饮食文化也在不断地相互影响和发展。
首先是饮食方式的不同。中国的野餐会带很多不需要烹饪的方便食品。而西方很多都会带便携的炉灶在外面生活做饭。
其次是吃的食物不一样。中国人会吃零食和各种包装食品。而西方会准备一些半成品烧来吃或者烤来吃
最后就是餐具的不同。中国可能直接就吃了,不太会单独带餐具。而西方则会带餐具刀叉或者吃下午茶也会有茶具
The Difference Between Culture In Chinese And Western:
1More Point, more Interest; Hua Wenshu can compare much adjective, make you are read more racily
2I Think Westtern People Will More Interest Then Chinese People(At Photography Aspect)
3 in square culture: Edible chopstick
1, china uses a chopstick, the foreign country uses knife and fork. First, in China People Use Chopstiks And Foreigner Use Folk And Knife.
2, chinese habit dines together, the foreign country likes to divide eat to make. Second, in China People Like Eating Meal In One Plate But Foreigner Like Everybody Have A Plate And Eating Thireslves Food.
3, the Chinese has a meal like to talk about a thing, the foreigner has a meal to keep quiet commonly. Third, people Like Talking On Table In China, foreigner Always Keep Quite. 4, chinese table is shorter, foreigner table is longer. Forth, in China The Table Was Shorter Than Foreigner.5, staple food is different, china is rice, the foreign country is biscuit. Fivth, diffrent From Main Food, chinese Like Rice, foreigner Like Bread. Oneself are wanting to write, also cannot feel embarrassed in time really to you.
Culture is discrepant for certain between Chinese and Western, the culture difference between appointment of Chinese and Western also is existence for certain, chinese, if cultured of appointment of male and female is a man,pay, western country is not such, deliver goods first, let him solve, this is so called AA it make these two kinds of systems what divided is good to make these two kinds of systems what divided with bad, just say some things suit east only, some things suit congee only
The difference of speech.
Speech cent is dialect, tone, syllable. Chinese dialect has plaint, doubt, allegation. Sheet can listen from dialect going out is inquiry still plaints. Tone includes " , 2, 3, the four tones of classical Chinese phonetics, light tone " . Read rise emphatic, resonant and Orphean, well-regulated, syllabic, it is closed syllable of odd syllable, basic nonexistent what, be like " Ha " add " T " , can seek the seat from inside English only, became " Hat " , language written language of the west wants exquisite open syllable, closed syllable, include light syllable, heavy syllable, and have odd syllable, much syllable. These features decided the difference that goes up at all.
One, genetic and different
1, the origin of Chinese traditional festival: China is a state that having old and Oriental civilization. Its long history and good convention are traditional festival grow offerred a fertile soil. As an agricultural country, china culture is deep root establish at agriculture. Accordingly, agricultural activity makes the festival has local color more.
The Spring Festival and a few agriculture activities, if cultivate, results, having close connection. Regard China as the mainest festival, the origin of the Spring Festival is OK restrospect to comes thousands of years the fokelore of a series of rich and colorful of ceaseless evolution and tradition.
2, the origin of western convention red-letter day: In western country, religion is the center of culture and society. The thought of people can react through religion. Meanwhile, religion passes the mankind to controlling them to the belief of god or spirit. Can say none exaggeratively, all trades and professions of religious consist in. Accordingly, festival and christian are having close connection, besides christmas, easter also is concerned with religion.
2, congratulatory kind is different
1, the means of congratulatory China festival: The Spring Festival is the mainest festival to each Chinese and abroad Chinese. Rich and its congratulatory activity is grand. Festal activity rich and colorful. Lin Yutang, distinguished Chinese scholar, once did a very good description to to the Spring Festival, new Year of old Chinese the traditional Chinese calendar, it is the biggest red-letter day in a year to Chinese people, under photograph comparing, other red-letter day appears bleak a lot of.
2, the means of congratulatory west festival: In restful night, the people of great majority congratulatory christmas can be in themselves home hold a special red-letter day to celebrate a ceremony. People connects the home to often can decorate the gift that that next christmas tree pack color next to be put below. In christmas that day, have a lot of congratulatory activities likewise. Exchange in christmas giving Christmas greeting card to give close friends is whole world congratulatory Christmas is gift, consuetudinary.
3 meal are different
1, Oriental meal: Chinese dish is " have taste " , so Chinese cook is using huge also shows on makings optional sex: A lot of Hesperian count the thing that abandons content, be in China is wonderful raw material, the thing that foreign chef cannot handle, arrive in Chinese chef hand, can change decayed for magical.
2, Western-style meal; More as apparent as the difference of Chinese food means is the buffet of western popularity. This law is: Will all food is displayed one by one come out, everybody each takes what he needs, need not secure eat on seat, ambulate free, this kind of means facilitates the affection between the individual communicates, do not place all words on the desktop surely, also behaved Hesperian to be opposite the individual character, esteem to ego. Hesperian thinks dish is allay one's hunger, eat chunk flesh, whole chicken to wait only so " good food " .
Chinese and Western just has a meal Fu Feiwen changes difference to basically be reflected is AA is made or a person pays. Be in China usually, that person that has a meal please sits east, namely who has a meal please, who pays Zhang, of course, as the guest, you also cannot take other people casually, the person that enough esteem plays the host also wants when ordering dishes.
Hesperian has a meal, some places like AA to make, but not be all.
Contrast is paid attention to " flavour " Chinese food, the west grasps those who hold is concept of a kind of rational food.
In the Chinese's inherent consciousness and idea, go after the relaxation of body and mind blindly, the energy between beautiful take time is on recreational activities, it is the expression that is content with a corner. And Hesperian is pursuit cultural life, they can open a clique to be opposite in free time, loosen; of body and mind they like to behave individual character, pursuit extraordinary.
Be in nowadays now the west, it is especially among the youth, begin popularity a kind of new consumption idea: Buy Experience, not Things. (buy an experience, is not a thing. ) investigation shows, the joyance that the joyance that new experience brings people brings than commodity wants more long.
A psychology of university of Er of American health Nai considers to discover, the happy rate that new experience or a craft of new learning and a new merchandise bring people at first equallies matched, but the elapse as time, people falls gradually to the happy degree of article, and be like,still make them excited to viatic memory and new craft first.
Square dietary culture difference basically reflects Chinese and Western in the following respects:
1.Feed material choice: Chinese meal feeds material to abound diversity, include vegetable, pork kind, seafood, bean curd, emphasize feeding this flavour of material. And Western-style food feeds capable person opposite less, basically wait with beef, chicken, pork give priority to, pay attention to those who feed capable person is fresh and tender spend and cooking skill.
2.Cooking gimmick: Gimmick of Chinese meal cooking is diversiform, include to fry, stew, boil, evaporate, cook over a slow fire, stress duration and control. And ploy of Western-style food cooking is relatively simple, in order to bake, scamper, decoct, braise is given priority to, pay attention to the collocation that feeds capable person and flavor.
3.Flavor means: Chinese meal flavors complex and changeful, exquisite the five flavors is harmonic, pay attention to the collocation that explores all sorts of dressing, wait like soy, vinegar, candy, cooking wine, green, ginger, garlic. And Western-style food flavors relatively simple, basically wait with salt, peppery, butter, butter give priority to, pay attention to highlight those who feed capable person this flavour.
4.Tableware uses: Chinese meal tableware basically is given priority to with the chopstick, ladle is complementary, bowl dish use Cheng Fang food. And Western-style food tableware is given priority to with knife and fork, dish uses Cheng Fang food, goblet uses drinkable wine water.
5.Dine formal: Chinese meal dines formal emphasize growing young orderly, advocate the guest has not, when dining, propose a toast each other, persuade dish, reflect close affection and friendship. And Western-style food dines formal pay attention to an individual to become independent, when dining, do not talk commonly, pay attention to enjoy food and atmosphere.
6.Mensal atmosphere: Atmosphere of Chinese meal table is general relatively lively, family and friend are surrounded sit together, share cate. And atmosphere of Western-style food table is relatively quiet, pay attention to close sex of the esteem of individual space and illicit.
Of course, these difference are not absolutely, as the communication of culture and confluence, culture of food of Chinese and Western also is being affected each other ceaselessly and develop.
Be dietary means above all is different. Chinese picnic can take the convenient provision that does not need cooking more very much. And the west can take portable cooking range to be born to cook alive outside more very much.
It is eating food next different. Meeting snack mixes the Chinese all sorts of food that pack. And the west can prepare a few semi-manufactured goods to burn will eat or be baked will eat
Finally is tableware is different. China may eat directly, can take dinner service alone not quite. And the west can take tableware knife and fork to perhaps eat afternoon tea to also can have tea service