中西服饰文化差异论文

Abstract: Dress culture is a cultural phenomenon unique to human beings. As it has different aesthetic ideas, different dressing concepts and different dress etiquette in China and west, it forms Chinese and western dress culture of the different connotation and characteristics. This thesis is divided into four major sections. The first part describes the different features of Chinese and western dress and why people wear clothing. The second part describes cultural differences between Chinese and western clothing. The third part gives an analysis of Chinese and western dress culture. The last part describes Chinese and western dress aesthetic culture and dress concept. Based on the analysis, the thesis finally draws a conclusion. Chinese and western dress culture each has rich connotation and distinct characteristics, which are precious cultural legacy which is left by human ancestors and are the world culture heritage. At the same time, we treasure our own civilization of five thousand years instead of belittling ourselves. It is significant to promote and develop our unique costume culture. We are confident and make contributions to realizing the rejuvenation of our Chinese nation and enriching the clothing culture of the whole world. Key words: Chinese and western clothing; culture；differences；aesthetic culture and clothing concepts 摘要摘要摘要摘要::::服饰文化是人类特有的文化现象。由于中西方各民族的审美观念、着装理念和服饰礼仪的不同，从而形成了不同内涵、不同特色的中西方服饰文化。本文共分为四部分。第一部分主要介绍了中西服饰的不同特征以及为什么人要穿衣服，第二部分写中西方服饰的差异，第三部分写导致中西方服饰文化差异的原因，第四部分则写中西方服饰审美文化和着装理念。通过以上简单的论述，最后得出结论，中西方服饰文化各具有丰富的内涵和鲜明的特色，她们都是人类祖先留下来的宝贵文化遗产 ,是世界文化的瑰宝。与此同时,我们应该珍惜自己五千年的文明而不是贬低自己的文明。促进和发展我们独特的民族服饰文化具有重要的意义。为了实现我们中华民族的文化复兴和丰富整个世界的文化，让我们自信起来吧！ 关键词关键词关键词关键词::::中西服饰；文化；差异性；审美文化与着装理念Introduction Costume culture, carried by costume, is a respect of our physical and spiritual life and a mixture of our psychological activities like consciousness, emotion, idea and ideal. The rapid development of advanced technology makes multiculturalism stand out and also makes conflicts between China and the West increase. In that case, it becomes more and more important to recognize the similarities and differences of costume culture between China and the West. Nowadays, the whole world is, to some extent, dominated by the western costume culture, which has wound its way into the daily life of the whole world, together with technology, life style and values from the West. Quite popular in China, it’s nominally called “internationalization” or “globalization”. In recent years, the costume industry of China has developed swiftly. The “international” costume, featured by the western costume culture, has become a pretty important part of our daily life. However, as our economy takes off, international status rises and living standard improves, a wave of national costume culture resurgence is rising. Moreover, people from the West pay more and more attention to the giant dragon in the East——China. Western costume designers constantly introduce Chinese costume cultural elements to their latest designs. Those phenomena arouse a series of thoughts: what distinguishes Chinese costume culture from the western one? Are there any similarities between them? What kind of costume culture will we Chinese hold as the mainstream in the future, the so-called “international” western one, the Chinese one or the fusion of the two? To obtain the answers to these questions, we are supposed to study and contrast carefully the characteristics and developing processes of them, and then draw some regularity. To contrast the costume culture between China and the West, it is necessary for us to master a good knowledge of the Chinese and western costume cultural 1 Chinese and western dress The different features of Chinese and western dress China is known as “Xia” as it’s a land of propriety, and it’s also known as “Hua” with the beauty of its costume. (①《左传》p83) Our national costume is Hanfu. It originated in the Yanhuang era, formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and officially took form in Han Dynasty. That’s the reason why it’s called “Hanfu”. Since then, in spite of historical evolutions of all ages, their basic characteristics have never changed. Hanfu, on the whole, can be divided into four developing stages: Zhou Han Hanfu, Wei Jin Hanfu, Sui Tang Hanfu and Song Ming Hanfu. Zhou Han Hanfu was featured by dignity and simplicity, while Wei Jin Hanfu by chic and elegance, Sui Tang Hanfu by dignified, graceful, elegant and poised style. Hanfu in Song and Ming Dynasties epitomizes the characteristics of the past-simple, dignified, elegant, etc. In Qing Dynasty, Hanfu was forbidden by the government and disappeared from the land of China. The main features of Chinese clothing are focusing on the right collar’s overlap, the band deducted hidden, big sleeves, no buttons and using string binding, giving the impression of free and easy flowing. These characteristics are obviously different from those of other ethnic costumes. Hanfu is divided into uniform and common clothing. With strict standards, uniform is dressed on formal occasions while the common clothing, without long sleeves, is very convenient to people’s daily life. However, the western clothing is different form the Chinese clothing. The West belongs to Marine civilization, it emphasizes the subjective and objective separation and that we should rationally treat clothing, advocate releasing personality, stress dress effect and be good at showing beautiful the posture of the body. Besides, we use various clipping, color collocation means to perfect bodily curve and give a person with visual comfort in the modeling. A suit, also known as a business suit, comprises a collection of matching clothing consisting of: a coat﹙commonly known as a jacket﹚,a waistcoat﹙optional﹚﹙USA vest﹚for men, a pair of trousers﹙USA pants﹚, or for women, a shirt or trousers. A suit is generally accompanied by torment, a shirt and tie or for women, a blouse. Why people wear clothingChinese people are concerned more about its social function of helping to rule a country well than that of keeping warm or decorating. It has a lot to do with ruling a country to regulate the dressing way of the common people. Nevertheless, the westerners pay more attention to its wealth value and function. Therefore, people put on clothing for functional and social reasons. The functional reason The first use of clothing is to resist the cold and cover the body. Functions of clothing include providing the human body protection against extremes of climate (extreme heat, icy winters, and drenching storms) and protection against insects, noxious, chemicals, and contact with abrasive substances. In sum, clothing protects human beings against anything that might injure the naked, unprotected human body. The social reason Clothing also delivers social messages to other humans. Social messages sent by clothing, accessories, and decorations can involve social status, occupation, ethnic and religious belief, marital status, cultural degree and sexual availability, etc. For example, only Roman citizens can wear “Toga” in Rome while dragon robe can only be dressed by the emperor in China.

Western novels in comparison First, Western novels in the history of the development of Western novels are based on myths and legends of its origin. In ancient times, science developed, out of fear of nature, the working people out of the imagination is the key to many of the world "God", describing the personification of God is a myth; who will describe the deified, that is legend. China opened the world's Pan story, the story of San Juan Five Emperors, the West Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, and so on are all typical works. East and West, the original novel, is closely linked with the history, as historical records complement the event. China Pre-Qin prose in the fable, the Han dynasty in the history books, biographies, the Wei and Jin Zhi, Zhi-person novel; the West of ancient Babylon, "the United States and Ji Jia disabilities epic", in ancient Greece, "Homer's epic," "Aesop's Fables "And so on, fall into this category, fiction, novels such novels have been about the characteristics of fiction, it is still not the literary creation, directly from the private collection record, so this type of fiction plot is relatively simple, writing rough comparison. Ban Gu said, "On the Street Lane words, hearsay are made of" is a novel kind of accurate assessment of the image. China's Tang Dynasty, the novel is only from history and literature become a creativity. Tang Dynasty culture has developed, the author's ideas are more open, the legend came into being at this time, Li Zhaowei "Liu Yi Chuan", Po Chu's "Everlasting Regret," Wolf's "Everlasting Regret Chuan" And so on, are made in accordance with the creation of the legend. For the fictional story of the Tang Dynasty more emphasis on imagination and literary talent, not just the history of the nature of things, but as the history of Zhi Zhi who is also the novel did not stop. The Legend of the Song Dynasty to the novel on a gradual decline, which followed the rise of this so that after processing will become a scholar so many novel and Romance novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Outlaws of the Marsh", "Journey to the West." The author of such novels is the use of private creative and re-created to describe the circumstances of the touching scenes of brilliant and vivid active in shaping the character known, there are obvious story-telling style of language. Here by the redevelopment, it will become an independent literary creation rather than things to come together with the civil process, the representative of this type is the "Golden Lotus", it was an open and ordinary life on the road, the reality is that literature has come a long way The development of the latter's "A Dream of Red Mansions" in ancient China Geng Shiba realism to the novels of the summit. "54" after the novelist began to learn from China's western fiction writing practices, and gradually out a new path. Western novels, is the "Renaissance" after the rapid development of mature. The development of the Middle Ages novel near-stagnation in the West, 14, the end of the century "Renaissance" to overthrow the literature of the Church of control, 15, appeared in the western end of the century to promote freedom of thought and the liberation of personality in order to describe the reality of life and portray characters from all walks of life for the content of the Humanist novels, is to tie in with this type of novel anti-feudal Europe at the time of arising at the same time it also set the novel in the West to human describing the tone of the main things. Jiaqiu Italy's "Decameron", Spain's Cervantes "Don Quixote" is the kind of representative works of fiction. The resulting novel is a classical, elegant favor of its national language to standardize the writing of this novel in 17th century France's most well-developed. As a note on behalf of Corneille's "Cid" neoclassical story of the rise of Western novels have been a language substantially improved. The beginning of the 18th century to promote popular science knowledge, enlightenment of the public consciousness for the purpose of the Enlightenment novels, of which there are relatively well-known German Goethe's "Faust", the United Kingdom Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and the Swift "Gulliver's Travels" and so on, this type of novel to the emergence of the bourgeois revolution at the time to mold public opinion. In the 19th century, romantic fiction, realistic novels and critical realism novel turn to occupy the leading position in the field of fiction. Romantic novels, such as France Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris", Goethe's "juvenile Witt of trouble" and so on, imaginative, unusual ideas, language and imaginative, strong feelings. Efforts to reflect the reality of the novel is the essence of life, and depict typical life of a typical phenomenon in the United Kingdom Dickens, France and Germany are of such novels as a representative of the writer. Critical realism novels exposed the efforts of the decadent feudal system and capitalist society, the dark, in-depth criticism of the reality of evil, France Balzac and Maupassant, the United Kingdom of Charlotte, Bronte,. Russia's Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, the United States of a large number of writers such as Mark Twain's works belong to this category. Value today, the three novels in the West is still the most important of the three types of literary fiction. East-West novel on the history of the development of more or less the case. Second, the characteristics of the novel in the West In addition to the basic characteristics of the novel, the story of the West also have their own characteristics are as follows: 1, the traditional Chinese novel attention to the characters, language and the details of the description, in contradiction to the conflict to display the images, but the character of a single, small changes in the absence of the main flu. Western novels are more people pay attention to the psychological description, stressed that mining figure in the subconscious mind, good at writing full, the changes in the strong sense of the main characters. Again, "coach Lin Feng Snow Mountain Temple" in the figure is only through dialogue and action leads to contradictions and conflicts, but Anna Karenina Wogui before a series of conflicts only with his description of the psychological will be able to express their clear; for poetry in Lin In the performance of her literary talent, and Paul with his inner monologue of the ideal; Zhang Zhong-Yong has only the character, but Jane Eyre's character is the brave, strong, warm, kind-hearted, and so many of the character and rubbing and Cheng's. In short, people in the area described in the West has its own unique features. 2, China compared with Western fiction novel plot twists and turns more and more complete story. Plot twists and turns, the story is complete fiction China's unique traditional arts. The Wei and Jin Zhi Zhi people on the novel twists and turns with vivid characteristics. Tang legend in the layout of many of the famous, magnificent anomaly, rigorous and clever, dramatic plot development. The contents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties novels scattered irregular, undulating waves, Cuoluoyouzhi, careful structure, an integral whole. "A Dream of Red Mansions", everywhere She Fu, Hui turning point, the story of Jia's best writing. Western plot in respect of the outstanding works, although there are many, but it can not be compared with the Chinese novel. 3, concise and lively Chinese language novel, rich in content and rich Western novels. Chinese folk artists absorbed the novel language, at the same time inherited the fine traditions of ancient prose, often a few words will be able to outline the incident or the people. Western novels in the author includes a broad range of knowledge, involve the community in many ways, so rich in content and rich people can gain knowledge in many areas. Engels said he was in Balzac's novel about 19th century France's domestic situation than he received any reports are more. Western novels have different characteristics, and also in the West different aesthetic concepts to a certain extent related. 4, Western novels have been the rule of the feudal culture of oppression destroyed. Chinese feudal culture makes the development of the novel is extremely difficult, Ming and Qing Dynasties more people to write stories for shame, so many great writers living, creating the conditions are not covered, many of the great works of authors who do not know. Western novels in the feudal culture makes almost the whole of the Middle Ages in the development of extremely slow, and many talented writers were forced to church services, wrote some of the religious nature of the article dry hole. Third, Western novels in the future prospects for the development of End of the Qing Dynasty, China and the West have begun to understand the other side of the system, the advantages of the novel in the West have been constantly learn from each other. Of course, due to historical reasons, the Chinese side of the draw a little more. To this day, the novelist in the West efforts are still two researchers in the novel's artistic charm, although the different languages of each other's appreciation of the arts to a certain extent, but the United States are interlinked. We have every reason to believe that in the near future, the novel art in the West will ultimately learn from each other and integrate, develop and reach new artistic heights. 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一、 差异的主要表现

1、色彩

一个民族对颜色的喜好从某种意义上反映了这个民族潜意识的性格特征。在夏、商、周时，黑色被中国的先人认为是支配万物的天帝色彩。后来人们把对天神(黑色) 的崇拜转向对大(黄色) 的崇拜,所以形成“黄为贵”的传统观念。

传统服装色彩受阴阳五行影响,有青、红、黑、白、黄五色之说,它们被称为正色,其他颜色为间色。正色在大多数朝代为上等社会专用,表示高贵。

在民间,正色也是人们衣着配色所喜爱和追求的颜色。我国古代封建等级制度森严，这一点也表现在服装上:先开始于民间,一旦被皇家贵族看中,就禁止民间使用,否则,轻者杀身,重者株连九族；如果一种服装的色彩开始是皇家贵族所穿,后来不穿了,成为一般民间服装,则这种服装的色彩立即被视为卑贱的色彩。

而在西方,在罗马时代最流行的色彩是白色和紫色。白色象征纯洁、正直、神圣，也代表魅力。这也是西方人喜欢选择白色作为婚纱礼服的原因。人们也曾对服饰上充满宗教气氛的色彩也十分向往。欧洲文艺复兴以来,随着服饰奢华程度的升级,明亮的色彩受到人们的欢迎。

法国人钟情于丁香色和蔷薇色,也很迷恋含蓄的天蓝和圣洁的白色;西班牙人却崇尚高雅的玫瑰红和灰色调;在英国,黑色有意想不到的复杂及强烈感，因为黑色被认为是神秘、高贵的色彩,但有时也被用于沉默、不吉利或悲哀的丧服。

2、外形

从外形特征上来讲,中国传统服装的外形强调纵向感觉,常用下垂的线条、过手的长袖和筒形的袍裙。中国传统服装形式以前开型的大襟和对襟式样为主。上衣下裳制和衣裳连属制为中国服装的两种基本形制，两种形制在中国几千年的历史中交叉使用，相容并蓄。

西洋服装在样式上有一个演变过程，由古希腊时的披裹式到中世纪的以披裹式的非成型类衣和前开式的半成型类衣为主。中国传统服装的外形自衣领部位开始自然下垂，不夸张肩部，常用下垂的线条、过手的长袖、筒形的袍裙强调纵向感觉，使着装人体显得修长。

而西洋古典服装的外形强调横向感觉，常采用横向扩张的肩部轮廓、各种硬领、轮状领、膨胀的袖型、庞大的裙撑、重叠的花边和花朵以及浆过的纱料和各部位的衬垫，使服装线条产生夸张和向外放射的效果。

而且从结构特征看，无论袍、衫、襦、褂，通常只有袖底缝和侧摆相连的一条结构线。中式服装采用中国传统的平面直线裁剪方法，无起肩和袖窿部分，整件衣服可以平铺于地，结构简单舒展。

西方服装为了最终取得与三维人体相吻合的具有立体效果，多采用立体裁剪方法，立体裁剪方法视人体为多面体至少是四面体，细心对待人体从上到下、从前到后各个方面的凸凹起伏关系，利用打褶和省道处理等服装工艺手段。

3、图案

中西服饰在对图案的选择上也呈现五花八门之势。从古到今,从高贵绸缎到民间印花布,吉祥图样运用极为广泛。人们都喜欢运用各种图案来隐喻对图腾崇拜，表达对美满生活的希望，如龙凤呈祥、九龙戏珠、喜鹊登梅等图样。这表明中式服装喜好运用图案表示吉祥的祝愿。

西欧服装上的图案随着历史的变迁而不断变化。

古代多流行花草放样,意大利文艺复兴时期流行华丽的花卉图案,法国路易十五时期,受洛可可装饰风格的影响,流行表现S形或旋涡形的藤草和轻淡柔和的庭院花草放样。野兽派的杜飞花样、利用几何绪视原理设计的欧普图案等则是近代流行的图案花样。

上：中国服饰

下：西方服饰

中国服饰的历史源远流长，从原始社会、夏商周、春秋战国、秦汉、魏晋南北朝、隋唐、宋辽夏金元、明、清，到近现代，都以鲜明特色为世界所瞩目，主要以汉服为主，另外还有胡服、旗装等。

“西方”，沿用了关于区域范畴的习惯称谓，与亚洲一带的“东方”相对。西方服装史，即是以西欧国家为主，上溯至美索不达米亚和埃及的服装发展史。西方服装体现出与东方服装相迥异的风格，特别是其中所蕴含的文化元素，代表了人类服装史的一个重要组成部分。

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二、导致中西方服饰差异的原因分析

1、中西服饰文化的差异

中国几千年来的历史进程中，我们的祖先创造了底蕴深厚的宽衣服饰文化，形成了特有的美学与哲学观念，与西方截然不同。

西方则强调主观世界与客观世界分离，明确提出主观为我，客观为物，“物”与“我”是相对立的，不容混淆的，致使他们习惯于理性观察世界和探讨规律，并形成一种追求自然法则以获得真理的作法。因而，表现出以一种理性的或科学性的态度对待服饰。

2、中西方美学观念的差异

中国服饰美学观念表现在女装造型上的是意象的结构。

这种平面的直线与曲线的裁剪方法使衣服适体又不完全合体，不裸露张扬也不尽力束缚，在遮体的隐约之中含蓄地显现了流畅婉约，温情流动的人体曲线美，造型意识是节奏化的，让视点随着自己的心愿移动，使生命之体在宽衣的帖体与离体之间流露气韵。

我国传统的服装空间造型是借“虚与实”、“明与暗”的节奏表达出来。西方的服装空间意识是在中世纪以后形成的，反映了西方人对空间的探求心理，渴望占据更多的空间，于是增大服装造型的体积，将服装视为扩大自我肉体的一种工具。

这种夸张的服装造型使人与自然整体之间，人与人的个体之间保持着一定的距离，反映了西方人的宇宙观，也反映了人与自然万物、心灵与环境、主观与客观的对立性。由于东方与西方不同的哲学美学观念在服装上创造了不同的基本造型，体现了不同的精神气韵。

3、中西服饰文化中的着装理念的差异

在中国传统的社会及家庭教育中，服装行为规范被看作是修身的一个重要内容，并长期影响着中国人的着装生活。人们在着装上注重伦理内容，用服装掩盖人体，竭力超越人体的局限，以达到儒家的道德要求。服装美注重表现人的精神、气质、神韵之美，并不强调形体。

西方服装文化属于多元化的范畴，其中最显著的特点是服装突出个性，显示个性。

参考资料来源：百度百科-中国服饰 （中国历代服饰）

参考资料来源：百度百科-西方服装史

中西服饰文化对比总结 通过做这次作业，我对中西方服饰文化有了一些更深入的了解与感悟。用一句话来总结就是时代在发展、社会在进步、中西服饰在融合。越来越国际化。下面我就来总结一下中西方各自服饰文化的特点以及进行一下差异对比。 中国服饰的特点： ①式样，女子穿上衣下裳式样的较多，男子多穿上下连属的袍衫。 ②外形，外形强调纵向感觉，使着装人体显得修长，特别是使四肢有拔长感。 ③结构特征，外形强调纵向感觉，使着装人体显得修长，特别是使四肢有拔长感。 ④图案，喜好运用图案表示吉祥的祝愿。 西方服饰的特点： ①古波斯服饰，披挂、直筒紧身式 ②古希腊服饰，优美、典雅 ③古罗马服饰，豪华富丽、庄严 ④拜占庭服饰，造型呆板、僵硬 ⑤哥特式服饰，新奇、怪诞和大胆 ⑥文艺复兴时期服饰，人体曲线成为了服装的审美关键 ⑦巴洛克服饰，男装最艳丽最疯狂的时期 ⑧洛可可服饰，将女人推到繁华至极的盛装 中西服饰文化的共同点： ①社会功能，中国人很早就以服装来“辨等威、显贵贱”，用森严的服饰制度来规范各色人等的社会行为和权限。西方人也同样重视这种社会功能，进入封建社会后，虽然西方的封建官员还没有中国历代那样完整的章服制度和区分级别的“制服”，但王宫贵族的穿戴与一般平民是有鲜明区别的。 ②装饰审美功能，服装的装饰审美功能已经越来越受到人们的重视，已成为推动服装改进创新的一大源动力。 ③形态构成，从造型理念和造型意识上看，都是平面的。从裁制方式上看，都是直线裁剪的。 对于中西服饰的发展与交，流相信在将来会有更大的进步空间 。作为人类文化的组成部分，两种服饰文化之间也有许多相似甚至相同的地方，这是两者之间相互融合，共存、共荣的基础。未来中西双方的服饰文化会有质的飞越。

Chinese and Western cultural differences in the performance of every aspect of daily life from the greeting 、 term diet and cultural differences in the way of thinking in the abstract, such as differences everywhere, from the West focus on the following colors to express the difference between Chinese and Western cultural differences in areas such as a wedding set. First, in the West to express the color difference Different colors in different languages is not expressed in the same way. The representative of China in a sense, the West has a meaning that even the "color" to understand the meaning of the contrary. (A) red (red) Whether in China or in the English-speaking countries, often in red and festive celebrations or day-related. Calendar, red font used these days, therefore, red letter day: refers to the "Day" or "happy occasion." It also refers to the red "liabilities" or "loss" because people are always negative in red to register. So there are these phrases: red figure deficit in the red loss In common with the Chinese "red" words, translated into English, may not necessarily use the "red" for example: brown sugar brown sugar red wine red wine (B) yellow Yellow in English and Chinese in the extended meaning of the differences are considerable. In English, yellow can be said that the "timid, cowardly, despicable," meaning, for example: a yellow dog despicable, cowardly people a yellow livered coward Chinese yellow symbol of the term is sometimes vulgar, vulgar and obscene, indecent indecency means, such as yellow film, erotica, yellow CD, and so on. These in the name of "yellow" in English and "yellow" has nothing to do. However, in another English word blue is the color used to indicate the kind of meaning in Chinese, such as the blue jokes (dirty joke), blue films (yellow film). Second, the cultural differences in Western wedding First of all, in Western wedding culture and the first in the West in thinking about the differences: the Chinese people more conservative, like excitement, more old-fashioned thinking, so in the history of China for thousands of years the entire wedding customs did not change much. The thinking in the West is more open to the requirements of the wedding will be lower, they will be the climax of the wedding in the church: the sacred as the "wedding march" into the red carpet, Jiao Mei's father, the bride linked hands Rose walked slowly to the groom, the bride's father, daughter to the groom's hand on hand, her daughter's life will be entrusted to the groom, all eyes followed the couple, filled with well-being in their face. Second, the result of cultural differences wedding in the West because the West in a different religion. China is mainly Buddhist, but the West is mainly Christian. Therefore, the Western wedding is to be held in the church and the priest is Zhuhun Ren. China's traditional customs of the most important part of the Bai Tiandi is, the worship heaven and earth even after the ceremony has become.中西方文化差异表现在方方面面，从日常生活的打招呼用语、饮食文化等差异到思维方式等抽象方面的差异无所不在，下面着重从中西方颜色表达的差异，中西方婚礼文化差异等方面阐述。 一、中西方颜色表达的差异 不同颜色在不同语言中表达的方式并不一样。在中国代表一种意义，在西方又表示一种涵义，甚至对“颜色”的涵义理解恰恰相反。（一）red（红色）无论是在英语国家还是在中国，红色往往与庆祝活动或喜庆日子有关。日历中，这些日子常用红色字体，因此，red letter day：指的是“纪念日”或“喜庆的日子”。红色还指“负债”或“亏损”，因为人们总是用红笔登记负数。于是就有了这些词组：red figure赤字 in the red亏损汉语中常用的带“红”字的词语，翻译成英语，可不一定用“red”例如：红糖brown sugar 红酒red wine （二） yellow黄色在英语和汉语中的引申含义差别比较大。英语中，yellow可以表示“胆小、卑怯、卑鄙”的意思，例如：a yellow dog 可鄙的人，卑鄙的人a yellow livered 胆小鬼汉语中黄色一词有时象征低级趣味、色情庸俗、下流猥亵的意思，如黄色电影、黄色书刊、黄色光碟等等。这些名称中的“黄”与英语中的“yellow”无关。然而，英语中另一个颜色词blue却常用来表示汉语中这类意思，如blue jokes（下流的玩笑）， blue films（黄色电影）等。 二、中西方婚礼文化差异 首先，中西方婚礼文化差异首先和中西方人在思维方面的差异有关：中国人比较保守，喜欢热闹，思维较古板，所以在中国历史几千年的时间里整个婚礼的习俗并没有多大的变化。而西方人的思想则比较开放，对于婚礼的要求也比较低，他们婚礼的高潮则是在教堂中：随着神圣的《婚礼进行曲》步入鲜红的地毯，娇美的新娘挽着父亲手捧玫瑰慢慢向新郎走去，新娘的父亲将女儿的手放在新郎的手上，将女儿的一生托付给新郎，所有人的目光注视着这对新人，幸福洋溢在他们的脸上。其次，造成中西方婚礼文化差异的原因是中西方不同的宗教。中国是以佛教为主，而西方则是基督教为主的。所以西方的婚礼是在教堂中举行而主婚人则是神甫。中方的传统婚俗中的最重要环节就是拜天地，拜了天地以后就算是礼成了。