The culture differences reflected in the detail ofwedding ceremonies
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This article attempts compare different aspects of the wedding of Chinese and Western to find out the differences and analyze the causes of the differences.Wedding is an important part of culture, it has come into a different wedding customs under the influence of different cultures between the west and east. In order to find out differences between Chinese and Western wedding culture, this article will show it through the comparison on the form of wedding ceremony and wedding party.
First of all,let's focus on the wedding forms.
The feature of traditional wedding customs in China is “complicated”. The specific process is : the man propose marriage, and if the woman agreed to the proposed marriage, the man could go to the woman's family with the bride price. And then he would ask the woman's date of birth, and divine good and bad fortune of her name and their marriage. And as a token of engagement, the man would send jewelry, silk, and even sheep or pig. The man give the dowry to the woman’s family, and two family would choose an auspicious day for the wedding. And at last, the new husband will go to his wife’s family in person to marry her. [1] The feature of traditional wedding customs in western is “romantic”. On the wedding, playing the wedding march, relatives and friends light the candles, the priest and the choir comes in, then the bridesmaids and the best man come in, the bride’s parents accompany the bride comes into
play, and all the audience stood up. Father solemnly handed the daughter to the groom, the parents of woman sat down, all the guests seated. Pastor is the chief witness at the wedding ceremony, the new couple will make the oath of marriage, the bride and groom exchanged wedding rings. Under the leading of choir, the guests singing blessing songs. They walked out of the church, followed by the best man and bridesmaids, family members and guests then exit the church. And at last, comes the wedding party. [2]
Here, we can find out that, in China, people did not have a fixed belief, but Chinese people would respect the constraints of "moral".The Confucianism is the biggest influence on the Chinese.Confucianism thought moral indicator of filial piety is very important.Marriage is no longer a personal matter, but the big event of whole family, love is not the basis for marriage. Chinese people are very cautious about marriage. So both men and women must put family interests first when choosing their own lover. Chinese people pay special attention to "harmony between natural and human", forming a traditional concept of "big natural". So complicated wedding ceremony, worship and bow down to natural reflects the respect for the solemn marriage and natural. However, people live in Western would not think so, capitalist culture is formed during the "Renaissance" in the 16th century. They preached "humanism", they follow the family values of freedom and equality.
