Abstract

As one of the cultural reflections, festivals have been endowed with special social and cultural significance and show their unique cultures of different nationalities and ethnic customs to the world. The purpose of this essay, on the one hand, through comparing the similarities and differences between Chinese and western traditional festival culture between Chinese and western traditional festival culture load because of the deep social and historical experience, traditional values, and cultural psychology, help us to dig deeper into the meaning of traditional festivals and objective, system to realize the nationality of Chinese and western traditional festival culture and unique. On the other hand, through the comparison between Chinese and western traditional festival culture, thus to realize the advantages and disadvantages of two cultures, which can help us achieve the balance in today's era of globalization to the nationality of the Chinese traditional festival culture and uniqueness, and to carry forward the traditional festival of the Chinese nation culture.I will use the data of the Internet and the library resources, find paper related information, the analysis of material using the learned knowledge to these materials into their paper work.

Key words: Chinese; Western; culture; traditional festivals

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

1.Introduction1

2.Origin and background of Chinese and Western festivals. 1

2.1 Origin and background of Chinese festivals.1

2.2 Origin and background of Western festivals3

3.Different customs between Chinese and Western festivals.5

3.1 Spring Festival vs. The Christmas5

3.2 Magpie Festival vs. Valentine’s Day6

3.3 Mid-Autumn Festival vs. Thanksgiving Day.8

3.4 Summary10

4.Different cultures between Chinese and Western festival 12

4.1 The pattern of celebration12

4.2 The traditional diet of festival.13

4.3 The differences of character reflected from banquet15

5.Conclusion17

6.References18