Similarities and differences between Chinese and Western religious cultures

Differences between eastern and western cultures

First, the relationship between justice and benefit. Generally speaking, westerners value profit over righteousness, while orientals value righteousness over profit or both. Orientals' consciousness puts righteousness first, which I think is also a kind of cultural consciousness caused by ancient pluralistic thoughts. Five thousand years of culture is also a cause that cannot be ignored. Relatively speaking, western short culture pays more attention to interests, which is the expression of realism. From the war of aggression against China and all life in the west, we can see their consciousness, which can also be called the style of seeking truth from facts. Of course, this is only for the vast majority of the East. In the life of orientals, such as China, modesty is a virtue, but westerners don't know what to do. Westerners can sacrifice their righteousness for the benefit most of the time.

Second, it is a question of wholeness and individuality. Orientals emphasize wholeness and comprehensiveness, while westerners value individuality. For example, Chinese medicine and western medicine emphasize the whole, which is different from western medicine. Anatomically, it attaches importance to parts of the whole. The difference between holistic thinking and individual thinking is also manifested in communication. For example, in many reports, when a China person went to a western family for dinner, when the host asked whether to eat Chinese food or western food today, the guest politely said, "Whatever." "It's up to the guests." It is difficult for westerners to understand such an answer. They said that when they heard the word "headache", they "hmm", and they didn't know how to fix it, so it was not easy to operate. In the depths of our way of thinking, we think that being a guest with our host is a sign of courtesy and respect for our host, but westerners don't think so. This is the difference. On the other hand, if a European comes to China and you ask him what he is doing today, he will definitely not say "whatever", but he will definitely make his wishes clear. Today, we can eat western food or Chinese food, but China people seldom express their personal wishes. Our delegation visited, and the foreign party received our delegation. The other party asked, What would you like to drink? If the colonel says tea, the people below may also say tea. People wonder why a person says tea, only tea, and all tea is swallowed.

Third, the issue of seeking common ground while reserving differences. We in China have always emphasized "harmony is the most important" and "harmony between man and nature", while the west pays attention to the innovation of various theories. When we thank each other for their reception, we often say things like: Your country is beautiful, your people are friendly, your reception is thoughtful, and so on. They think that Wan Li is all the way from east to west. Isn't there anything different? Why do they always say these three words? Later, when a delegation left, except for three sentences, he said, I want to make some suggestions now. These people listened carefully at once and wanted to hear the delegation's suggestions before leaving. First suggestion, I hope your introduction materials can be translated into Chinese. The second is whether you can boil this beef, because blood is intolerable. Thirdly, I hope you can know something about the history and culture of China. They felt particularly good after listening and heard different opinions. They said, we will do what we can, and we know what you like, if we can't.

Fourthly, it is the difference of emotional expression between the East and the West. Differences between China and the West on many issues Yes, I bet Westerners can't understand butterfly lovers. The biggest problem here is the cultural difference between China and the West, which leads to two different ways of expression: the subtle feelings of China people and the direct expression of Westerners. China's ancient ladies must have no western imagination, not to mention China's ancient concept of "men are superior to women" and ancient family law.

Fifth, we often have intentions in our way of thinking. They are intuitive. For example, some of our articles like to use hints from life or compare the past with the present. This hint needs you to understand. The so-called silence is better than sound here, which is different from the intuition of westerners. For example, Mr. Qian Zhongshu's Comparison between Western Culture and China Culture talks about the advantages of China's poetry. Although there are only a few crosses, its expression is more artistic than western long poems. But for westerners, it is very profound and difficult to understand.

That gray song

Fuzzy connection and then accurate.

This is the characteristic of China's poems that ordinary western readers think. Keats famously said: The music you can hear is really beautiful, but the music you can't hear is more beautiful. I often use questions to answer, ask questions to answer, ask questions without answering, so that you have unlimited vision and imagination for the following.

The educational differences caused.

Two different cultures have created two different educational systems. The sharp contrast reflects the children living in two different cultural backgrounds. First, western education is almost complete from system to policy implementation. Groups of children received higher education well. The only drawback is that in this case, some students have developed a lot of arrogant habits, which has also affected them to some extent. But I have to admit the fact that their educational environment is better than that of China, and their main task is to cultivate children's self-ability and quality, which I appreciate. Exercise their living ability since childhood. In the international summer camp, it is obvious that their children are much better than us. I think this also has certain environmental factors.

In contrast, quality education in China is always imperfect. Apart from environmental factors, I think the most important reason is that China's cultural heritage is so deep that it is difficult to change this tradition. In addition, China's quality education overemphasizes the cultivation of test-taking ability, often ignoring the cultivation of test-taking ability and the improvement of self-ability, which fundamentally leads to the high level of China students in international competitions, but their lives are far worse than others. Many students in China are dissatisfied with education, which also reflects two levels from one side.

In my opinion, two different education systems can't explain which is good and which is not. It is only the product of two cultures and social systems. They have their own advantages and disadvantages. We should learn from each other's good aspects, so that education in different regions can develop better.

Reasons for cultural differences

Teacher Zhou said: "China is a land civilization, and the west is a marine civilization." That makes sense. One is that the social development paths of the East and the West are different. China's long-term agricultural society and small-scale peasant economy have caused the national psychology of our mainland culture. This psychological feature emphasizes a kind of local friendship and a kind of neighborhood friendship to a great extent. Didn't you say that there are four happy events in life? After a long drought, I met an old friend in a foreign country and spent the night in a bridal chamber. At that time, I was in to beno. 1. It must be very cold to meet an old friend in a foreign country. If they meet a fellow countryman abroad, they won't be very excited. However, overseas Chinese have many hometown associations outside, while westerners generally have no hometown associations. We often talk about our homeland, and even talk about one side's soil and water to support one side's people, and so on. These have a lot to do with our long-term agricultural society. There is also the concept of falling leaves returning to their roots, which has a strong feeling, and the factors of this feeling are just very weak in the West.

Another is that China is a multi-ethnic country with a history of 5,000 years. The historical origin of China's traditional culture is Confucian culture and a culture in which a hundred schools of thought contend. One of the characteristics of this traditional culture is that it emphasizes the overall qualitative thinking mode, which is very different from the western culture's emphasis on individual and local empirical thinking mode. The west is mainly Christian culture. Confucian philosophy system emphasizes self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world. The first is to cultivate one's morality first, that is, to pay attention to moral cultivation; Western philosophy emphasizes analysis, which leads to the difference of focusing on overall thinking or individual thinking respectively.

There are many differences between Chinese and western cultures, and there are also many differences, many of which also produce many jokes. However, the similarity between different cultures is that these are all the processes of human cultural development. These differences between eastern and western cultures cannot be said to be good or bad, but they are objectively formed. Their existence will inevitably lead to the continued development of human culture. In today's world, no nation or country can lose or get rid of its traditional culture. Therefore, external imposition or internal betrayal is not conducive to national development and social progress.

Let's work together to safeguard the development of various cultures and the stability of the country. Eastern and Western cultures can promote and learn from each other. In this way, I believe that the cultural course of mankind will go better.