中国文化与美国文化的不同的英语作文【汇编20篇】

中华美德，人人皆知，“孔融让梨”等典故无不体现了中华民族五千年以来至高无上的美德，更说明了中华民族是一个文化之都。

每个国家都有自己独特的传统文化，我们国家也不例外。而中华美德正是所有文化中独一无二的瑰宝，我们都是中国人，自然要理所当然地继承我们祖先给予我们的一笔丰厚的礼物，就像我们是中国人，就要说中国话一样，和谐的社会需要中华美德来构建，来填充这个空虚的世界，否则我们的生活就会变得枯燥无味，这正是中华美德给予我们的，一颗中国心。

想想这句名言：忘记过去就等于背叛。如果你真的对中华美德弃而不管，你就等于背叛了中华民族的祖先，虽然这是一个愈发进步的社会，但是不是因为进步了，就可以把中华美德像扔垃圾一样遗弃呢？然后再去盲目地追求外国文化，而自己家乡的文化却遭到冷漠。

让我们保持一颗纯正的中国心吧，并且是一颗有着中华美德的中国心！要永远记住，你是个中国人，要学习中国文化，中国美德。雷锋叔叔永远值得我们崇敬，因为他身上有许多我们所没有的中华美德。中华美德人人都可以拥有，关键是看你想不想拥有，团结同学你就拥有了中华美德；谦虚好学你就拥有了中华美德；为爸爸妈妈洗一次脚你也拥有了中华美德……中华美德就在细微之处，只有你用心去做了才能发现它。

“弘扬中华美德，构建和谐社会”，势在必行。这是保护中国文化的一次行动，让我们保护好那一颗中国心，不要让它日积月累没有了往日的风采！请不要只展望未来而忘记过去，过去也有许多值得我们学习，回味的地方！

让我们在知识的海洋中翱翔，在理想的天空中搏击，用科学文化知识丰满羽翼，武装自己，为全面建设小康社会做好准备。让我们弘扬民族精神，响应时代的召唤，做一个对社会有用的人。

中国的传统文化就像一座巨大的宝库。在这里我们可以认识古代大思想家，了解古代神话故事，欣赏古代建筑……，我最喜欢的有：中国剪纸、中国戏曲、中国皮影等等。

中国的剪纸文化非常有趣、好玩。我们可以剪出花鸟鱼虫、梅兰竹菊。我见过剪出的花鸟鱼虫惟妙惟肖，十分逼真。我还见过剪出的梅兰竹菊，看着这些花花草草感觉就能闻到花香。

中国的戏曲博大精深、历史悠久。我都听过的戏曲有：豫剧、京剧、黄梅戏、昆曲等等。我刚刚听到这些戏曲的时候我不知道他们在唱些什么，后来妈妈说：那戏曲里都在讲述一个个感天动地的故事，让我学到了很多道理。

中国的皮影戏就更美了。我看过武松打虎、美猴王、三打白骨精。这些皮影戏做工精良、惟妙惟肖，一根根丝线牵着皮影的手脚一上一下，特别好看、好玩。

这就是中国美丽的传统文化，我欢迎五洲四海的游客常来中国玩，我们也要保护和传承中国的传统文化。

咱们的中国传统文化博大精深，渊远流长。今天，我要向大家介绍的就是传统文化——剪纸啦！    剪纸的种类有很多，比如：窗花、喜花、礼花、鞋花、门筏、湾州布影、斗香花、剪纸团花、剪纸旗幡、剪纸汉字、剪纸图画等等。我次就只介绍介绍剪纸图画、剪纸汉字和剪纸旗幡。

剪纸图画就是在一张纸上剪出一副画来。你先看看这幅“书生”，上面有一位正在拿着书在读的先生，一看他的样子就是一位书生；再看看这幅“凤凰戏牡丹”，上面有一只凤凰在一朵牡丹上玩耍，活像一个小孩在玩耍……

剪纸汉字也是先拿出一张纸，然后在上面剪出一些汉字，还可以剪艺术字呢！我也曾经剪过，非常的漂亮，不信，你自己试试！你看了准会说很好看，因为这是以前传下来的吗！

剪纸旗幡我也做过，（是照自己的方式做的）我先拿来一条1分米的棍子，再拿来一张纸，吧之间成一个三角形的形状，（自己看一下该剪多大）最后再把纸粘上去。就做成了，你试试吧！

中国还有很多传统文化，比如：书法、刺绣等等。怎么样，咱们中国是不是有很多传统文化？

一个民族的崛起，除了经济的强盛外，更重要的是一个民族的文化繁荣。

进入21世纪，随着中国经济的不断强大中国的各项事业腾飞不绝，中华文化的复兴也随之展现在我们每个炎黄子孙面前。

中华民族悠久的历史，历久！弥香，虽历尽沧桑，但依然屹立于世界民族之林，文化的薪火相传，民族文化的多样性与个体五彩缤纷的生活，人们对精神空间的选择，对文化的追求，永不休止。文化不绝，民族不灭，在此基础上，传承，弘扬我们的文化，可以说是民族振兴，国家富强的首要任务。

中国文化源远流长，尤以诗最为精辟，堪称中国文学的经典，永垂不朽。从昔日的古诗到如今的现代诗，中国诗经历了几千年的风雨，历久不衰。

《诗经》中“蒹葭苍苍，白露为霜，所谓伊人，在水一方”，豪爽的诗词道出了毫不掩饰的对心爱人的爱慕之情。“乘骐骥以驰骋兮，来吾导夫先路”。简短的诗句，表达了屈原对楚国忠贞，矢志报国的高尚品格。

中国诗的辉煌是不可磨灭的。

春秋战国时期，是精神思想空间，文化极度繁荣的时期。在这一时期，孔子，墨子，孟子争相而出，儒家、道家、法家，百家兴起，出现了中国文化史上的巅峰，也奠定了中华文化坚实的基础。

孔子，春秋时期鲁国人，是儒家学派的创始人，是开山鼻祖。儒家学说是对后世影响最深的，教化人最多的一派学说。《论语》中，子曰：“学而时习之，不亦说乎？有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？人不知而不愠，不亦君子乎？子曰：“学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。”短短几句反映出儒家教化人的真谛。子曰：“道千乘之国，敬事而信，节用而爱人，使民以时。”反映出儒家以仁爱为主体，以礼治国。

五千的悠悠华夏文明史，孔子就站在他的中间点上他一手创建了影响两千五百多年的儒家和儒家学派，成为中国传统文化的奠基人。儒家思想是中国文化上的一个闪亮点，是中国文化的辉煌。

了解中国文化，就能够了解中国文化的哲理，丰富自己，使自己内外兼修，中国文化更是人精神上的灿烂文明，是寄托感情，抒发感情的途径，一个民族在文化上能否有伟大的建树，取决于精神生活的总体水平。

注重精神生活，追求精神生活，热爱全人类文化遗产，思考人生问题，为中华民族的前途尽一份力，贡献一份力量。

The difference between chinese and western culture

With the rapidly challging word, people throughout the world have found it increasingly necessary to minimize the rate of misunderstanding due to miscommunication in their contacts with another. In the oast most human beings were born, lived, and died within a limited geoographical area, never encountering people of other cultural backgrounds. It might be said that technological advances have been most effective in creating the borderless word, the global community. As our world shrinks and its inhabitants become interdependent, people from remot cultures increasingly come into contact on a daily basis. It is no longer hard to find situations in which membes of ince isolared groups of people. Now these people may live thousands of miles away or right next door to each other. So all the people are faced with the challenge of understand this world. So when the east meet west, there are many problems. Some problems are listed as follows.

First of all, the way of eating. All huaman beings have certain basic needs. Our fundamental needs for things that keep us alive. This is the physioligical need. All individuals must eat in order to survive. But what people eat, when they eat, and the manners in which they eat are all patterned by culture. No society views everything in its environment that is edible and might provide nurishment as food. Americans eat oysters but not snail. The French eat snails but not locusts. The Jews eat fish but not pork. The Hindus eat pork but not beef. The Russiand eat beef but not snake. We all have ideas about what kinds of food are good to eat. We also have ideas about what kinds of food are bad to eat. As a result, people from one culture often think the food that people from another culture eat are disgusting or nauseating. Dislike is not the only reason why some culture will not eat a certain food. In some clture, certain foods are taboo. Sometimes the food taboos may be so strong thrat just the thought of eating forbidden foods can cause an indivdual to feel ill. We can also find culture difference in way of bring up children treating the early, greeting each other, saying and spending money before other people do in everyday, but in some English-speaking countries, people do not agree with us. We chinese may enjoy something that is not usually consider as edible by the English-speaking people. Generally we perfer to have thing hot and much emphasis on the taste. We eat from one plate when we are eating with others, and we like to seat one by one, and in the shape of a round. On the opposite, some English-speaking contries, most of the people like to seat in two rows, two people face to face. They have their own plate. On the aspect of table manners, there are many differences between chinese and English-speaking people. For example, in some Englishi-speaking countries, Bread plates are to the left of the main plate, beverage glasses are to the right. Salad fork, knife and soup spoon are further from the

main plate than the main course knife, fork and spoon. When eating bread rolls, break off a piece before buttering. Use the knife only to butter the bread, not to cut it. They should not start eating before your host does or instructs to do so. At larger meals, it is considered okay to start eating once others have been served. When finished, place the knife and fork together at five o’clock with the fork on the left. It is considered rude to answer the telephone at the table. If need to take an urgent call, excuse self and go outside. Try to eat all the food you are served. But in China, the table manners are different. Chinese traditionally eat rice from a small bowl held in the left hand. The rice bowl is raised to the mouth and the rice pushed into the mouth using the chopsticks. Some Chinese find it offensive to scoop rice from the bowl using a spoon. If rice is served on a plate, as is more common in the West, it is acceptable and more practical to eat it with a fork or spoon. The thumb must always be above the edge of the bowl. The host should always make sure the guests drinks are sufficiently full. One should not pour for ones self, but should offer to pour for a neighbor. When your drink is being poured, you should say "thank you" and tap fingers on the table to show appreciation. When people wish to clink drinks together in the form of a cheer, it is important to observe that younger members should clink the edge of their drink below the edge of an elder to show respect.

Secondly, the way of communication. Form birth to death, communication plays an integral part in our life. There are some language problems, including the different styles of using language such as direct, indirect; expansive, succinct; argumentative, conciliatory; instrumental, harmonnizing; and so on. These different styles can lead to wrong interpretations of intent and evaluation of insincerity, aggreeiveness, deviousness, or arrogance, among other. The misinterpretation nonverbal signs and symbols such as gestures, postures, and other body movements. It is a definite communication barrier. But it is possible to learn the meanings of these observable message,usually in informal rather ways. It is more difficult to understand the less obvious unspoken codes of the other cultures. Language, as the carrier of culture, is created during the process of human beings’ productive labor and serves as the tool of communication to convey the message between people. However, it has been endowed with magic and power in particular language acts. As the old saying goes, troubles come out of the tongue. Superstitious people think that the language itself can bring about fortune or misfortune so that taboos to restrict the use of language are created. Anyone who violates them will get punishment, whereas those who faithfully obey the restrictions of language taboo will get protection. Furthermore, linguistic taboos change with the development of society .The paper firstly analyzes the evolution of linguistic taboo. It is indicated in the paper that linguistic taboo exists in almost every aspect of people’s life and is a universal social phenomenon in China and Britain. Both Chinese and

English cultures are in agreement about linguistic taboos such as pronunciation taboo, and vocabulary taboo. However, influenced by different cultural backgrounds, ideologies and the concepts of value, Chinese and English linguistic taboos also have differences, as is discussed in the paper from the aspects of taboo subjects, taboo numbers and names. At last, this paper puts forward two effective ways of avoiding taboo, that is, using euphemism and having a good knowledge of the taboo culture. And this discussion would help English learners improve their ability of cross-cultural communication and achieve better communicational effects. For example, During the feudal times, people were not equal to the rulers and were suppressed by their superiors. The distinction between the upper and the lower classes was also reflected in the evaluation of the language used by them respectively. The words of upper class used were considered good and elegant while those used by the lower class were regarded as vulgar and indecent and should be avoided in the speech of ladies and gentlemen. In modern society, as a result of the development of science and technology, many natural phenomena are no longer mysterious. Human beings not only constantly improve their abilities to exploit the world where they are living through their great wisdom and knowledge, but also make efforts to explore the extraterrestrial world. Science has much more say in today’s society. Thereby, the superstitious elements in linguistic taboos decrease while those reflecting spiritual civilization increase.

In short, by comparison, we can find that both Chinese and English communication reflect people’s psychology for good will, for safety and fortune and pleasantness. The Chinese and English people restrict their words and deeds through taboos, trying to keep a harmonious relationship between human and nature, or between people and society. They are a reflection of people’s pursuit of freedom and equality.

The most important, the different way of family structure, family values and family education. Family structure is the big difference between east and west, traditional chinese, amony many other Asians, repect their elders and feel a deep sense of duty toward them. Children repay their parents` sacrifices by being successful and supporting them in old age. This is accepted as a natural part of life in China. In contrast, taking care of aged parents is often viewed as a tremendous burden in the English-speaking countries, where aging and family support are not honored highly. In some English-speaking countries are still extrmely family-oriented. They are dedicated to helping their children and will sacrifice greatly for their children to get an edcuation. In turn, the children are devoted to their parents, who often live nearby. Grown children who go away and leave the country for the economic reasons typically send large parts of their salary home to their parents and the rest of the family. Or in some Asia, any decisions or actions are done from family consideration, not individual desires. Peope`s behavior is judged on whether it

brings shame or pride to the family. The children are trained to rely on their families, to honor elderly people, and to fear foreigners. And many of them think that their actions in this life will influence their status in the next life.

The way of family edcation is also the different. We all know the family education is the elementary education for children. Many serious problems have appeared in our education system in recent years. Almost everyone has realized the importance of solving these problems and many people have presented a lot of valuable suggestions. There are many types of family education in the world and each of them shows distinctive features and is closely responsive to its culture. And American family education is the most famous one among them. There are great differences in the concepts of education, methods of education and results of education between East family education and West family education. In some English-speaking countries, parents’ aims are to train their children to have the ability of adapting to environmental variety and the ability of living independently. Based on this concept, most American parents emphasize more to train their children’s ability of independence once they are born. They generally believe that children’s growth must rely on their own experiences, because they think that children should form a self-supporting will and the capacity to live independently since their childhood. And the capacity comes from the training in the early age. The so-called training contains many aspects, such as work, temper will, patience, the spirit of hard work, etc. However, the most fundamental training is the ability of adapting to hard conditions. Through the process of work, children will form the labor sense, learn some work skills and form a habit of labor. Besides, children can learn how to overcome difficulties, temper their willpower, develop their talents and skills, rich their knowledge, and form a habit of hard work and thrifty by working in hard conditions. It is just in the unconsciously process that children will obtain the independent survivability and take the responsibilities for the society. Compared with some English-speaking countries, Chinese parents have a very different concept of children’s education. Some parents in China only care about whether the children have a promising future, a good job, a good life or not. Based on these expectations, the majority of parents feel that their responsibility for their children is to create as good conditions as possible they can so that the children will not worry about anything in the future. Chinese parents would like to provide everything what they can for their children in the process of children’s growth. In short, they would like to sacrifice anything if their children can live better with their help. Therefore, in the process of children’s growth, the most important thing the parents concerning is to developing their children’s intellect, except for caring children’s daily life. In order to make their children have a good performance in study, become outstanding, or even become a famous person in the future, they would not let children do anything except studying. As for the children’s independence, civic awareness and their ability adapting to the

society in the future, they consider little or not at all. From these aspects we can find the obvious differences of family education between America and China.

When we faced with those difference between West and East, we should give some advice to solve these problems. According to the three big difference that pointed, we should find some way to deal with these problems.

We can study other languages and learn to expect in nonvwebal forms and other cultural aspects. We can train ourselves to meet intercultural encounters with more attention to situation details. We can use an investigative approach rather than stereotypes and preconceptions. We can gradually expose ourselves to differences so that they become less threatening. We can even learn to lower our tension level when needed to advoid triggering defensive reactions. The overall goal should be to achieve intercultural communication competence.

So the ideal solution to reduce the problems are to share knowledge with others in communication. This is why it is easiest to communicate with other members of the same group. This is why people so often gather together socially with others who are very much like them. Since intercultural communication is communication with members of different cultual groups, and therefore, because we do not share knowledge, assumptions, values, and forms of discourse with them, we must expect there to be problems of interpretation. We must look for these problems, anticipate where they will arise out of our differences, and then plan our aommunications to be as effective as possible.

However, we have to remember that, most of the time, the different ways that are the customs of dfferent cultures are neither right nor wrong. It is simply that different people do the same tings in different manners, even though we can not understand ,we should show the respect. I believe this is the best way to make our life become more comfortable and make the world more harmonious.

Given is a table which clearly illustrates the striking trend of aged population in China from 1990 to 2050. During the first 22 years, the number of people aged 60 and above ascended slightly from 97.19 to 136 million, and since 2012 it is predicted that this number will surge remarkably, reaching 410 million in 2050. Meanwhile, the proportion of aged citizens revealed and will reveal the similar trend, and it will reach 27.4% in total population.

Such a scenario can be naturally associated with various problems in aged society. For one thing, aged society is best characterized by the more burden for youngsters to support parents, which will enable younger generation to work harder. For another, compared with the past and today, the aged citizens will play a more important role in society. A case in point is their age for retiring will be extended. Therefore, a larger proportion of senior citizens have to take more responsibilities in work, family and society.

Accordingly, it is advisable for Chinese government to focus more eyesight on the coming challenges in the forthcoming future. Meanwhile, it is essential for China to work out comprehensive strategies to strengthen its social welfare to reduce young people’s stress.

Such a scenario can be naturally associated with various problems in aged society, but what resulted in this change above? For one thing, the past 30 years was best characterized by the policy of Family Plan in China, which enabled a host of families to have only one kid and enabled the proportion of youngsters to decline. For another, compared with the past, medical care and quality of life is and will be better; therefore, a larger proportion of people live longer. Consequently, the percentage of aged people showed and will show a trend of rise.

Today, daddy leads me to buy the flower to the flower shop, I elected three to plant flowers: Fresh refined lily, warm moving carnation, what I most like is that posture myriad rose. In the flower shop rose has many kind of colors: The white like snow, the red elephant fire, yellow resembles the gold, flesh color like rosy cloud .I have chosen a most lovable purple-red rose. Gets in the home, I them in have in the water jar, sits before the table the careful observation rose. Roses stem very straight very straight, has the penstock to be so thick, on is also bringing several spinules. The bottle green leaf is the Chinese olive shape, also soft is also thin, the edge becomes the zigzag, the arteries is the forked arteries. It is an opening flower bud, the desire in bud puts it is similar to the charming charming young girl, the smiling face contains the spring, beautiful extremely. The second day early in the morning, I discovered the rose already split open the smiling face, a flowers small wine class, the flower petal slightly has become likely screw type splits open, but has not looked at the inside stamen and pistil. The rose seems beautiful and the rich charm, I draw close to it gently, inspired deeply! A light delicate fragrance greets the nostrils. The rose is the rose family plant, its ancestor is an everflowering rose, afterward was mixed with the wild rose, has become presents rose. Although the rose is bringing the thorn, but my equally I like tenderly and beautifully pleasant, fragrant four overflow rose.

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今天,爸爸让我买花花店,我选三种花:清新雅致的莉莉,温暖的移动的康乃馨,我最喜欢的是姿态万千玫瑰.在花店的玫瑰有许多种颜色:白如雪,红象火,黄的像金的,粉红的喜欢美丽的云……我选择了一个最可爱的深紫到红的玫瑰.会在家里,我插入他们的水罐,坐在桌前仔细观察玫瑰.玫瑰的干得很直很直,有缝隙,那么厚,是几spinules也带来.这个瓶子绿色的叶子是中国橄榄形,也软也是薄、边缘变得锯齿,动脉是动脉分叉.这是一个开放的花芽的渴望,在芽期把它与迷人的迷人的年轻女孩,笑脸包含了春天,美丽的极.第二天一早,我发现玫瑰已绽开了笑脸,一个花小酒杯、花瓣略有有可能成为螺杆式分割开,可是没有看着里面stamen和雌蕊.玫瑰看起来漂亮和富有魅力,我轻轻贴近,深深地吸气!一个光迎鼻孔清香.玫瑰是蔷薇科植物,其祖先是一个everflowering玫瑰,后来都掺杂着野玫瑰,已经成为现在的玫瑰.虽然带着刺的玫瑰,但我同样我喜欢温柔而美丽宜人,芳香四溢的溢出玫瑰.

莫高窟位于甘肃敦煌市东南25公里的鸣沙山东麓崖壁上，上下五层，南北长约1600米。现存洞窟492个，壁画45000平方米，彩塑2400余身，飞天4000余身被誉为“东方艺术明珠”，也被称为“墙壁上的图书馆”。我觉得莫高窟是最美的。

莫高窟之美美在壁画。壁画的内容十分广泛，这里我主要介绍各阶层的各种行为活动。比如帝王出行，我们可以看见一位穿着黄色龙袍的皇帝，坐在轿子上，神情威严，旁边是一群百姓在跪拜，除了这些，莫高窟壁画还绘有交通、作战以及音乐舞蹈这些优美的图画，看着这些富有极高艺术造诣的壁画，我不禁被中国古代人民的智慧所折服。

莫高窟之美美在佛像。第328窟的释迦牟尼佛像慈眉善目，他坐在莲台上袈裟摆经过1600年的洗礼，仍是错落有致，轻盈而又飘荡，连褶皱纹理都清晰可见。站在他身边的大弟子伽叶，双眉紧锁，表情严肃，显得老成恃重;而小徒弟阿难则面部圆润，一只眼睛眯着，似乎已经走神。我不禁赞叹古人智慧超群，手艺精湛。这些塑像是用木头做构架，用草木灰和泥土打底，经几层粉刷，最后上颜料，就能把人物刻画得栩栩如生，保存至今。

莫高窟之美美在飞天。飞天，是佛教中称为香音之神的能奏乐，善飞舞，满身异音而美丽的菩萨。唐代的飞天更为丰富多彩，气韵生动，她既不像希腊插翅的天使，也不像古代印度腾云驾雾的天女，古代的艺术家们用绵长的飘带使她们漫天飞舞。

莫高窟之美美在文物。在藏经洞里发现了四、五万件手写本文献及各种各样的人民智慧的结晶——上千件绢画、版画、刺绣和大量的书法作品。有人做过推测：如果把所有艺术作品一件件阵列起来，便是一座超过二十五公里长的世界大画廊!

莫高窟作为艺术的宝库，不同时代的艺术风尚在这里汇集成斑斓景观。敦煌唐代艺术代表了中国佛教艺术最璨灿的时代，外来的艺术与中国的民族艺术水乳交融。那雄伟浑厚高达十几米的巨大佛像;灵巧精致仅有十余厘米的小菩萨;场面宏大、人物繁密的巨幅经变;形象生动、性格鲜明的单幅人物画都使我印象深刻。

啊!我爱你，大美莫高窟。

大家好!我是来自欢乐阳光旅行社的导游，我姓刘，大家能够叫我刘导，此刻就让我带大家走近我国的“世界遗产”——故宫，另外提醒一下，大家不要乱涂乱画呦!

此刻来给大家简单的介绍一下故宫，故宫又名紫禁城，因为时间慢慢的过去，人们就叫它故宫了，它是皇上和皇妃住的地方，里面还有许多中国的宝物、名画和名诗。

此刻我们来看它的城墙，城墙高约十米，有四座城门，南面是午门，北面是神武门，东西面为东华门、西华门。宫殿是长方形的，占地七十二万平方米，有七十多座大小不一，形状各异的宫殿和九千多座高低不一样的房屋，墙外有五十多米宽的护城河，城墙的四角各有一个玲珑奇巧的角楼，下头我们就到珍妃井去看一看吧。

此刻我们来到了珍妃井，说到那里大家都听说过珍妃跳井的故事吧!下头由我来给大家介绍一下珍妃井的由来，1887年光绪皇帝在慈禧太后的威慑下，无奈地选了隆裕皇后和瑾妃、珍妃之后，他渐渐地爱上了珍妃，这件事被慈禧太后明白了，便把珍妃扔下了井，人们为了纪念她便把那口井叫做珍妃井，这就是珍妃井的由来。

我们往下看，此刻我们来到了九龙壁，大家看上头有九条颜色不一样，姿态各异、十分美丽的九条龙，他们最中间的那一个是金黄色的，它代表着皇帝的尊严，其中有一条红色的龙，经过多年的风吹雨打，有一块石头已经掉了，是现代的石匠找到相同颜色的石头又后补上的。

各位游客，故宫之旅结束了，很高兴当你们的导游，祝大家生活愉快、身体健康!，期待下次的相遇!

Santa Claus was born in US in the 1860s he was named this as he had a white beard and a belly,so he was named Santa Claus as this was the Dutch word for St Nicholas,Sintaklaas.Although the Dutch had bought him with them in the 17th century,he did not become an important person at Christmas until the Novelist Washington Irving put him in a novel that he wrote in 1809.This first Santa Claus was still known as St.Nicholas,he did smoke a pipe,and fly around in a wagon without any reindeer,but he did not have his red suit or live at the North Pole,he did however bring presents to children every year.

In 1863 He was given the name Santa Claus and bore the red suit,pipe,and his reindeer and sleigh.

Now Christmas celebrations vary greatly between regions of the United States,because of the variety of nationalities which have settled in it.

In Pennsylvania,the Moravians build a landscape,called a putz - under the Christmas tree,while in the same state the Germans are given gifts by Belsnickle,who taps them with his switch if they have misbehaved.

Early European settlers brought many traditions to the United States.Many settled in the early days in the South,these settlers would send Christmas greetings to their distant neighbors by shooting firearms and letting off fireworks.In Hawaii this practice is still in use as under the sunny skies,Santa Claus arrives by boat and Christmas dinner is eaten outdoors.

In Alaska,a star on a pole is taken from door to door,followed by Herods Men,who try to capture the star.Colonial doorways are often decorated with pineapple,a symbol of hospitality.

In Alaska,boys and girls with lanterns on poles carry a large figure of a star from door to door.They sing carols and are invited in for supper.

今天，我读了妈妈给我买的《世界文化与自然遗产》。这是一本充满知识的书。在这本书里，我学到了很多在学校里学不到的知识。现在，我就给同学们介绍一下我们中国的文化遗产吧。

同学们你们知道世界上规模最大，保存最完整的帝王宫殿是哪座宫殿吗？那就是我国的故宫。故宫是明清两代的宫殿，共有24位皇帝在此登基即位。由于故宫里收藏着大量的珍贵文物，所以改名为故宫博物院。

故宫的三大殿是太和殿、中和殿和保和殿。太和殿俗称“金銮宝殿”，是故宫等级最高的宫殿。在太和殿中举行的仪式都非常高级，例如皇帝登基、节日庆典等。中和殿是皇帝去太和殿前小憩或演习礼仪的宫殿。保和殿是举行殿试和宴会的地方。

介绍完了故宫，那大家对人间仙境黄山了解的又有多少？黄山以“三奇四绝”的奇异风采名冠于世。天都峰、莲花峰、光明顶是黄山的三大主峰，素称“三奇”。怪石、奇松、云海、温泉素称黄山“四绝”。黄山的名松有迎客松、送客松、蒲团松、凤凰松、棋盘松等。迎客松是黄山第一名松。到黄山未看迎客松，等于未游黄山。由此可看出，迎客松的名气有多大！

书里的知识可真不少。我要认真阅读这本书，把学到的知识讲给同学们听。

Going abroad for Studies

The other day I announced that I would go abroad for further studies right after my college education. My decision evoked the immediate objection of my family： Why? Why should I borrow a huge sum of money for overseas studies while I might receive the same education at home at relatively low cost? My answer is： in addition to knowledge， I can gain experience that those who stay at home will never have.

First， experience is the opportunity for the real-life use of foreign languages. While a person can study a foreign language at home， the effect can never be compared with constant use of the language in academic and everyday life. There is no better opportunity to improve second-language skills than living in the country in which it is spoken. Living in English-speaking countries such as America and Australia for several years， for example， my English will be as perfect as native speakers.

Second， living and studying abroad offers me a different perspective of the world. On a university campus， foreign students are likely to encounter their counterparts from different countries and areas and are exposed to different ideas and values. This helps me to have a meaningful understanding of different societies and inevitably sees my own country in a new light.

Third， overseas experience， frustrating and painful as it may be， is helpful. A person going abroad for study often experiences much more difficulty——difficulty in adapting to a new culture and in dealing with all problems alone. Yet， the difficulty， coupled with the frustration brought on by culture shock， is a rewarding experience for ones future life and development of personality.

Although going abroad is expensive and perhaps painful， the payoff is worthwhile. For the benefit is not merely knowledge gained， but the experience desirable in ones personal life.

汉字，是祖先留给我们的一笔辉煌的文化遗产，保护和开发这一宝藏，我们责无旁贷。它们是中华民族的代表，是中华民族的精髓，是中华民族的骄傲！

汉字使我们人类的文化得到延续，是它使得我们中华民族得以发展，它们各有独自的魅力。每个字都有自己的特点，当你写下一个个汉字时，仿佛身临其境。他们像一群变化多端的小精灵，时而轻于鸿毛时而重于泰山，时而飘若游丝时而娇若惊鸿。

汉字和别的国家的文字比起来拥有较为悠久的历史，从甲骨文到金文从隶书到楷书。

现在大多数人都在学英语，可那二十六个字母并不具有汉字所具有的感情。

汉字培育的中国古老的文化，不管这块东方的土地上有多少种不同的语言，但这汉字却论为了这群羊羔的领头羊，汉字的发展源远长流，每次每句都有一个动人的故事我们每天在汉字的海洋里遨游怎能让汉字文化的根基流失，损害？

汉字直接已经有4000年的历史，是世界上使用人口最多的汉字，别看它只是一个普普通通的方块字，组合在一起，就成为一个个不同含义的词组，一篇篇语句优美的文章，一首首抒发情感诗歌，一个个发人深省的故事。看着这些字就像一颗颗星星在纸上闪烁。

汉字书法是一门独特的艺术。古往今来，我国涌现出许多著名书法家王羲之，柳工权，颜真卿，等等这一个个汉字在他们的笔下更能发出无穷的魅力！呈现出不同的风韵，各种各样的书法字体有着不同的特点。

中国汉字是我们华夏民族几千年的瑰宝，也是我们终身的良师益友，每个人的精神家园。天地万物，只有语言文字是永远存在的，我们的汉字集形体声音和辞义三者于一体，它的独特魅力，是永远不可能改变，也是无可替代的。

汉字文化博大精深，歇后语，字谜，绕口令，等等等等。绕口令里用了汉字的读音来锻炼舌头的灵活度，所以我天天有事儿没事儿就不由自主的说起绕口令来。

汉字是我们生活中不可缺少的一部分，瞧！街头的广告牌上，眼前的书上，到处都有汉字的足迹。读书，写作，文化，语言说没有汉字这一切，从何谈起？

汉字的悠久历史，每前进一步都凝结着中华民族的心血，汉字是中华民族是龙的传人凝聚的核心！

现在社会已经进入科技化，只要用电脑，无论什么字都能打出来，不用花大力气去学习汉字，汉子已经落后，而我认为汉字是人类从古代流传至今的无价之宝，是中华民族独有的书法瑰宝，抛弃汉字，就等于把汉字拥有2000多年历史，生命给扼杀掉。

所以，我们应该让汉字流传下去，而不是让汉字文化失传。

As we know , water is very important to man,we can’t live without water. The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less. But some people don’t care about it .They waste a lot of water in their daily life. Even worse, they pour dirty water in to rivers. They throw rubbish into rivers , too. Many rivers and lakes are seriously polluted. Something must be done to stop the pollution.Only in this way can we live happily. If we don’t save water, the last drop of water will be a tear-drop of us.

说到舞龙，大家一定拍手叫好，可是你们知道舞龙的来历吗?

传说玉皇大帝为了寻找一件稀世珍宝，派龙王寻遍海底，人间。龙王找不到珍宝，可在人间飞舞的样子却吸引了玉皇大帝，使得玉皇大帝不再追究珍宝的事，为了纪念龙王，人们开始“舞龙”。

“龙”的 头一般以木头制成，外面上漆涂色，龙身用彩布做成，长13丈，约合42米。有人在龙下舞动，令人眼花凌乱，十分漂亮。

舞龙时，常有长者带着子、孙在舞龙下钻来钻去，以望子成龙，求平安，称为“钻龙架”。

舞龙时，十分热闹，前面由人扮演的“鱼”“虾”“蟹”“蚌”“杂水”等在前面开路，后面则是活灵活现的龙。舞龙时，一路鼓乐不断，浩浩荡荡，满城轰动，人数众多，真是令人大开眼界。所到之处热闹非凡啊。

虽然人们没见龙，但却把它想象为驼头、蛇颈、鼠须、鱼鳞……龙是万兽之王，具有所有动物的特点。舞龙象征着吉祥如意，我们中国人也被称为“龙的传人”。

常言道：“百里不同风，千里不同俗。”舞龙带有着浓郁的广东特点。你们那儿又有什么民风民俗呢?请与我一起分享吧!

过年的气氛就是不一样。家家户户都贴了对联，挂了大红灯笼，可真是“新年新气象”啊。听说今年还有舞龙的表演呢，这可乐坏了我们。从小就听奶奶讲龙的故事长大的...

我国传统文化丰富多彩，有一种节日要赛龙舟，吃粽子，你们知道是什么节日吗?那就是端午节了。

端午节又名端阳节，相传这天是我国古代伟大爱国诗人屈原投汩罗江的日子。每当端午节，老百姓就会赛龙舟、吃粽子。老百姓为了找到屈原的尸体，赛龙舟的时候，就会扔粽子给汩罗江的鱼虾吃，生怕鱼虾咬掉屈原的尸体，人们以此来纪念屈原。从古至今赛龙舟这个习俗保留下来，已经成为了中国端午节不可缺少的事情了。

吃粽子也是端午节不可不干的事情。粽子分为很多类，有豆沙粽、红豆粽、肉棕等等一些香甜可口的粽子。如今，吃粽子、赛龙舟来过端午节已经成为家家户户不能不过的重要节日，国家特别规定端午节这天为全国法宝假日，就是要让这个传统节日发扬光大。

这就是我了解的端午节，这是属于每个中国人的节日。每当端午节到来之时，我们就会自然地想到吃粽子、赛龙舟;想到诗人屈原;想到屈原的“路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索”，这句话激励着一代又一代的中国人战胜困难、勇往直前。

中国的传统文化真丰富，我们要更加了解中华传统文化，当一个传播传统文化的小使者!

中国传统节日有很多;春节.元宵节.中秋节.端午节.重阳节.清明节.七夕节。

我感兴趣的传统节日中最喜欢的是春节，因为它是中国民间最隆重的传统节日。在夏历正月初一，又叫阴历年，又称为“过年”和“新年”。每年过年，街上挂满了红红的灯笼，彩旗飘飘。商场是人山人海，家家户户贴对联，可热闹了。每个小朋友都可以拿利是，小朋友还可以穿上漂亮的新衣服，大人个个喜气洋洋。爸爸给我买了许多礼花和鞭炮，到了晚上，我就拿出礼花下楼和小朋友一起放，我们玩得非常高兴，到了晚会开始，我才恋恋不舍地回家，与家人一起开开心心的吃水果看晚会，精彩的表演把我们逗得哈哈大笑，心想:要是天天都过年该多好啊!

我还喜欢过“重阳节”，农历9月9日，有一首重阳节的古诗是李白创作的。独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人。这首诗写得非常好。又是中国的一个古老的传统佳节--重阳节。重阳节，又有称为“老人节”，重阳这一天，人们赏菊花，佩带茱萸，携酒登山，畅游欢愉。这一天，我和爸爸妈妈准备了一份礼物去看望爷爷奶奶，我心中非常开心，因为我明白尊老爱幼是我们中华的传统美德。

“元宵节”也让我难忘。每年农历的正月十五日，春节刚过，迎来的就是中国的传统节日元宵节，这一天我们也放了许多烟花，还吃了汤圆。一家团团圆圆，那时的我心中充满无比的幸福和欢乐。中国的传统节日真是丰富多彩，它是中国的节日。

这些传统节日同样给我们带来了欢乐和幸福，所以我们要记住这些美好的节日，并永远继承下去。

鲁迅先生的一声疾呼：“中国人失掉自信力了吗？”惊醒了一些蒙昧的国人，而今，面对文化现状，我不禁也想问一句；“中国文化失掉自信力了吗？”

我的疑问并不是凭空而来，近来，我们的许都做法表现出了对我国文化的不自信。海外回国的学者总要比国内同等位的学者多许多待遇；著书作说的作家定是在海外奠定了其写作基础；大型学术论坛必然少不了外国专家的点评；就连节日也是洋节要比传统节日要过的精彩……这就是国人普遍而错误的心态：我国文化低人一等，只有和外国文化带点关系地位才会上升。而我们完全没有理由这样做，因为我国作为四大文明古国之一，是世界上唯一一个文化绵延千年不间断的国家，是世界文化史上独一无二的奇葩。所以我们有充分的信心说，我国文化并不比任何一个国家的文化差。

找回文化自信力是极其重要的，因为一个民族只有拥有文化自信力才会有其存在的凝聚力，才会有其繁荣强大的内在动力。在都德的《最后一课》中，法语老师对他的学生说：“当一个民族沦为奴隶时，只要好好保存自己的语言，就好像掌握了打开监牢狱的钥匙。”这句话告诉我们一个民族可以被奴役，但人民只要坚定地相信自己民族的文化是优秀的文化，不放弃自己民族的文化，就总有一天会冲破枷锁，重新崛起。

而在这个飞速发展的当今世界，现代科技的进步带来的不仅是时空距离的相对缩短，还有文化与文化之间的猛烈碰撞。而为了使中华民族立足于世界民族之林，更应增强国民文化自豪感，扩大我国文化对世界文化的影响力，将我国文化中最优秀的部分展示于世人。孔子文化。唐诗宋词。雷锋精神……每一种都是历史所沉淀下来的精华，每一种都是闪着耀眼光芒的瑰宝，每一种都有其独特的魅力，每一种都值得作为国民的我们为之自豪，学习，传承，并将其发扬光大！

让我们回归民族文化，在传承文化的同时紧随时代，出去浮躁的心，还中国文化一个自信！

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中国传统文化——过年风俗

春节俗称“年节”，是中华民族最隆中的传统佳节汉武帝太初元年始，以夏年(农历正月初一为“岁首”(即“年”)，年节的日期由此固定下来，延续至今。年节古称“元旦”。

1911年辛亥革命以后，开始采用公历(阳历)计年，遂称公历1月1日为“元旦”，称农历正月初一为“春节”。岁时节日，亦被称为“传统节日”。它们历史悠久、流传面广，具有极大的普及性、群众性、甚至全民性的特点。年节是除旧布新的日子。年节虽定在农历正月初一，但年节的活动却并不止于正月初一这一天。从腊月二十三(或二十四日)小年节起，人们便开始“忙年”：扫房屋、洗头沐浴、准备年节器具等等。

所有这些活动，有一个共同的主题，即“辞旧迎新”。人们以盛大的仪式和热情，迎接新年，迎接春天。

传说中国古时候有一种叫“年”的怪兽，头长触角，凶猛异常。“年”长年深居海底，每到除夕才爬上岸，吞食牲畜伤害人命。因此，每到除夕这天，村村寨寨的人们扶老携幼逃往深山，以躲避“年”兽的伤害。有一年除夕，从村外来了个乞讨的老人。乡亲们一片匆忙恐慌景象，只有村东头一位老婆婆给了老人些食物，并劝他快上山躲避“年”兽，那老人捋髯笑道：“婆婆若让我在家呆一夜，我必须把‘年’兽撵走。”老婆婆仍然继续劝说，乞讨老人笑而不语。

半夜时分，“年”兽闯进村。它发现村里气氛与往年不一样：村东头老婆婆家，门贴大红纸，屋内烛火通明。“年”兽浑身一抖，怪叫了一声。将近门口时，院内突然传来“砰砰啪啪”的炸响声，“年”浑身战栗，再不敢往前凑了。原来，“年”最怕红色、火光和炸响。这时，婆婆的家门大开，只见院内一位身披红袍的老人在哈哈大笑。“年”大惊失色，狼狈逃蹿了。第二天是正月初一，避难回来的人们见村里安然无恙十分惊奇。这时，老婆婆才恍然大悟，赶忙向乡亲们述说了乞讨老人的许诺。这件事很快在周围村里传开了，人们都知道了驱赶“年”兽的办法。从此每年除夕，家家贴红对联、燃放爆竹;户户烛火通明、守更待岁。初一一大早，还要走亲串友道喜问好。这风俗越传越广，成了中国民间最隆重的传统节日。

春节，守岁放鞭炮贴春联拜年演变起源：春节和新年的概念，最初的含意来自农业，古时人们把谷的生长周期称为“年”，《说文。禾部》：“年，谷熟也”。|在夏商时代产生了夏历，以月亮圆缺的周期为月，一年划分为十二个月，每月以不见月亮的那天为朔，正月朔日的子时称为岁首，即一年的开始，也叫年，年的名称是从周朝开始的，至了西汉才正式固定下来，一向延续到这天。但古时的正月初一被称为“元旦”，直到中国近代辛亥革命胜利后，南京临时政府为了顺应农时和便于统计，规定在民间使用夏历，在政府机关、厂矿、学校和团体中实行公历，以公历的元月一日为元旦，农历的正月初一称春节。

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Chinese months are reckoned by the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. New Year festivities traditionally start on the first day of the month and continue until the fifteenth, when the moon is brightest. In China, people may take weeks of holiday from work to prepare for and celebrate the New Year.

当你在伦敦街头看见独具中国特色的黑头发黄皮肤时，你的心中是否会涌起久违的感动？

当你在路旁听那婉转悠扬的茉莉花时，你是否是否会想到故乡江南的吴侬软语，橹声咿呀？

当你手捧一份古籍，透过陈旧的书页，受到中华文化的芳香，你是否会升腾起莫名的冲动与敬畏？

中华文化是五彩缤纷的，他自五千年的历史走来，伴着长江黄河氤氲的水汽，涂染了炎黄子孙的色泽，古朴温润而又华丽，就如谦和低调的中国人一般，怎能不爱？

汉字，应该是沉稳敦厚的土黄色，这是华夏农耕文明的色彩，更是五千年历史的重色，汉字，自诞生之时，就是在黄色的土地上的一笔一画，方方正正，带着人们对土地的敬畏，亲近与热爱，汉字也记载了这黄色大地上的桩桩件件。一个字，便是一幅画，有结构对称的阴阳之美，有删繁就简的朴素之美，有灵巧俊逸的飘逸之美，汉字就这样成为了中华文化一脉相承的见证，他与这片土地一样，宽厚沉稳，厚重古朴。

古籍应该是深厚博大的蓝色，这是中华大地天空的色彩，更是囊括一切包容一切的象征，从古至今，古籍给我们印象最深的，就是那一本本蓝色的封面，和其中中流淌出的思想精髓，在这里我们的祖先发现了，天人合一，执着的追寻着臻于完美的最高境界，在这里诸子百家的思想碰撞出耀眼的光辉，吸引后世不断走在朝圣的路上，在这里一个个古典人物，自历史走出，给我们最大的启迪和智慧……五彩缤纷的中华文化，还有微微桃花色的桃花源，黑白相间的水墨画，大红的中国结和红蓝白黄的京剧脸谱，有人说中华文化是一条河，我们注定要在其下游土吸其芬芳，接受其哺养，绚丽的中华文化，怎能不爱？

如今时代的车轮不断的轮转，却有太多的传统文艺失去了它们缤纷的色泽，它能变得模糊而褪色，老地名与我们渐行渐远，传统节日越来越被淡忘，就连深入中国人血液的汉字，也陷入了提笔忘字的尴尬，我们呼唤高慧云一般的人物，他默默无闻，他宠辱不惊，却肩负起复兴中华文化的重任，他兢兢业业，他庄重肃穆，却未褪色的文化注入老鲜活的色彩，重获生机的中华文化啊，怎能不爱？

大风泱泱，大潮傍傍。

洪水图腾蛟龙，烈火涅磐凤凰，文明圣火，千五而未绝者，唯我无双，与天地共存，与日月同光，五彩缤纷的中华文化啊，且看今日华夏！