The animal the symbol 中西方动物文化差异.docVIP

The animal the symbol Abstract: This paper briefly describes the various aspects of the differences between Chinese and western culture, and probes into the reasons through various data collection, Standing in the Angle of culture, explore differences between the Chinese and western cultural of the Wolf. It is mainly the different Chinese and western regional culture that makes people hold the uniquely understanding of the Wolf. Wolf is fierce, brutal, greed, vicious, not to speak of the symbol of moral evil in most of Chinese literary works. But in ancient China some a few nomads think that wolf represents brave, coordination and spiritual, and even a national totem. In western culture, it is the symbol of special power, a mothers love of loving, feral, and freedom. This article look for the same point of its culture and discuss the differences through the comparison between the Chinese and western culture of the symbolic meaning of wolf, and sum up the main differences between Chinese and western culture. Key words：Wolf, Culture difference, Chinese and Western, Symbol Introduction In general terms, the culture is a kind of social phenomenon, the product of a long-term creative form. And at the same time, as a historical phenomenon, it is the cultural antecedents of the social history.Properly speaking, culture refers to a state or national history, geography, local conditions and customs, traditions, way of life, literature and art, behavior standards, the mode of thinking, the value, etc. Generally speaking，human creation process of human culture is the actual survival and developement process. Due to the different environment for human survival and development of the specific conditions , the human‘s culture of the different race are gradually different because of the various factors. So，human experience a long process of the contact with the other lives in the nature in the long history , especially the animal. Gradually，human begin to have a number of ri