On the Differences and Integration between Chinese and Western Wedding Rituals 论中西婚俗的差异与融合.docVIP

On the Differences and Integration between Chinese and Western Wedding Rituals I Introduction Marriage is formed in a long historical evolution of the wedding rituals in a nation. It is the regularity of the activities that promotes peoples awareness of marriage. Wedding rituals’ founding does not depend on the law. It can not rely on science tests, but on the force of habit, traditional culture and national psychology. During the development of human history, the marriage institution and family system have experienced different processes of development. As the union of a man and a woman, marriage includes not only wedding, but also the preparation phase for the marriage and the performance stage after the festivities. It runs through the whole process of life. These customs play a very important role in ethnic studies and the history of mankind. China is a country with an ancient civilization and a long history, and many rituals. Among so many customs, there is a particular one wedding ritual. This custom has gone through various and long stages of development from ancient simple wedding ceremony to later complex ceremony, from feudal wedding ritual to the modern free wedding ritual. During these courses, people’s ideas are progressing, though we can not say that their ideas reach to the top of mankind’s ideas all over the world over all the time because there are still backward ideas existing in many places, in many people’s minds and maybe they will still exist for a long time. However, they reach to the top of mankind’s ideas in a certain stage of the uninterrupted development of idea. Greek civilization is the base of western culture. Britain plays an important role in ethnic studies and the history of mankind. Comparing with each other, they are different in many aspects such as in right aspect and in freedom aspect and there are many reasons that result in these differences such as cultural and geographical reasons. With the development o