東西方生日文化差異

1、-Between china and westAbout the birthday uThe date of birthdayuThe origin of birthdayuThe celebration of birthday 石大冰The date in chinaChiness birthday recording method with the West is simply widely divergent(和和不同）不同）.The increasing of ones age begins in Near Years Day Chinese New Year , will be sa

2、ys after New Years Eve ,each person is a year older than before. Therefore the new year discards the old for the new which also has age certain meaning.But celebrating a birthday generally the custom use lunar calendar.Therefore each person may have two birthdays, a lunar calendar and a solar calend

3、ar. The date in the west Westerners birthday date is quite simple. The date is birth that day-long A.D. numbers the years method the solar calendar date.If like this is exactly on February 29 birthday, brings forth the leap year only then to be able every time to have the birthday .In Western astrol

4、ogy, and theories 12 constellations which are used to infer the solar calendar personality, future luck, Marriage, mood changes and so on. The origin in chinaFirst view: Celebrat life extension and prosperous. According to analysis,Lu Wanfather and liu bangs father live in the same year,thay are goo

5、d friends. In the same day the two mens wives gave birth to a baby each, the villagers learned the news and came to congratulate that with the specially prepared gifts. The date is probably the anniversary of two children before birth, that is, we say birthday. Second view: Entrusts with the life to

6、 the mother the gratitude. As the saying goes: childrens birthday, mothers difficult day. Third view: Disappears the disaster to avoid evil influences.The origin of birthday in the west The birthday meeting custom begins in early Europe. The people thought in the life date that one day, the devil ca

7、n hear the news.In order to cause the human who celebrates a birthday to exempt is injured.The friend and the family member can come to his family .They spend the danger with him and bring the good wish.The giving gifts are able to make the atmosphere become happier.what they do can keep off the dev

8、il outside the gate. This is the birthday meeting origin. Birthday celebration of the elderly are generally childrens birthday noodles for them personally . Kids birthday, most parents will do so only for its red eggs for that. In chinaIn the west In most English-speaking countries, people will open

9、 the birthday party and sing Happy Birthday song, who blessed birthday .They eat the cake. Usually birthday cake is a very beautiful cake, in the cake there are many candles which is the same with the age.The people make a wish, and then blew out the candle . Friends give birthday gifts, birthday gi

10、fts will be open then.To the foreigners sending birthday alarm clock basically said to imply that the person time to rush, to cherish the time means is to encourage each other. Butabout people in China, it is a curse that people, because the clock and end are homonyms, so free minutes on the Chinese

11、 people as nail in the coffin means.- -In the United States the birthday child will be spanked, how old hit the number, the another plus 5, said growth, life, food, happiness and marriage. Now, spanking more often is a birthday prank or joke.- - In Ireland, the birthday child is inverted and lightly

12、 hit the floor, hit what age the number of times, the last plus one wishes good luck.- - In Argentina, childrens birthday will be pulling the ear lobe, at what age the number of pull.- - In Holland, the adult who celebrates a birthday will bring a cake by oneself to the company and share it with the colleague;- - In Denmark, the family