A Case Study on Comparison of Typical Chinese and Western Festivals

Abstract

With the integration of global economy aggravating, cultural exchanges among nations become broader and more frequent, meanwhile, some typical foreign festivals and culture have diffused into China and become popular. To some extent, Chinese traditional festivals have be pounded. Therefore, this paper tries to reveal the similarities and differences between traditional Chinese and Western festival cultures by utilizing the method of comparing, inducing and deducing. First, it focuses on the introduction of some typical traditional festivals in China and western countries by comparison, then it comes to analyze the similarities and differences of traditional Chinese and western festivals. After that it explains the development trend of Chinese and western festival culture. Finally, it brings to the conclusion that comparison between Chinese and western festival culture promote a deeper understanding of western culture which is beneficial to culture exchanges among nations, which inversely helps better promote and carry forward the splendid culture of Chinese tradition.

Keywords: Traditional Festivals, comparison, China, Western Countries