Abstract

In modern society, more and more people, especially young people, like flowers. They believe flowers are stand for love, respect, delight, or even sadness. On some days, they would buy flowers to express their emotion, but the flowers in different countries, there are lots of meanings. Therefore, it is very important to compare and analyze the symbolic meaning of Chinese and American flowers in the view of cultural field.

This paper mainly focuses on the symbolic meaning of Chinese and western flowers. First, it  introduces flowers, including history, cultural connotation, value. Second, it compare and analyze  Chinese and western flowers culture respectively in order to analyze the similarity and differences of the two cultures, and then from the perspective of differences between Chinese and western culture, the paper demonstrates the proper understanding of symbolic meaning of flowers between Chinese and American from four aspects which include the regional civilization, thinking patterns, customs, religious beliefs. Finally it draws the conclusion in order to put forward the learning and communicating methods of flower culture and it symbolic meanings.

Key words: flower culture; Chinese and western culture; contrast; analysis

Contents

摘要

Abstract

1. Introduction-1

1.1 Background of research-1

1.2 Flower culture-2

1.2.1History of flower culture-2

1.2.2 Cultural connotation of flower-3

1.2.3 Core value of flower culture-5

2Comparisons and Analysis of Flower Culture between China and Western Countries-6

2.1The contrast of Chinese culture and western culture-6

2.2similarities of flower images between Chinese and western countries-7

2.3 Different flower images between Chinese and western countries-7

3Apporches to proper understanding of flower images from the perspective culture differences-9

3.1 Regional civilization-9

3.2Thinking pattern-10

3.3Customs-11

3.3.1 Chinese custom-11

3.3.2 Western custom-11

3.4 Religious belief-12

4Conclusion-13

References-13

Acknowledgments-14