A Comparison Of Wedding Cultural Differences Between Chinese And Western Countries

Chinese traditional culture and Western culture have great differences, these differences can reflect people’s social life, the wedding was an important ceremony in human’s social life, and also is an important part of culture, because of different cultural background, there is a big difference in the wedding ceremony and formed their own wedding culture.Based on the differences in many aspects of China and the western wedding culture,through inquiry and detailed study we found that along with the progress of the times and social, the wedding culture become globalization significantly, frequently cultural exchange, more and more common factors, factors that causing the differences between Chinese and Western wedding are also different. The causes of the differences between Chinese and Western wedding mainly has three aspects, one is the basis of marriage is different, Chinese marriage is on the foundation of interests, Maximum benefit marriage would get the approval of the relatives, western marriage is based on love, and they pay more attention to the feelings; the second is the purpose of marriage is different, China traditional marriage is focus on the offspring, offspring as the fundamental purpose, while the western marriage focus on common life;the third is the concept of marriage is different, the idea is a form of thinking, Chinese concept of marriage is more conservative, natural rituals followed the traditional, western concept of marriage is more open, not rigidly fixed etiquette. Western wedding culture has complicated performances, and each country, different nationalities, wedding culture is also different, but the essence of the reasons for these differences are consistent, therefore, When we do the analysis of the differences between these wedding culture, we need to explore deeply based on detailed description, and dig out the deepen reason of the wedding culture differences.