英语毕业论文中西颜色文化差异

Color Theory Resources:Excellent site on Color Theory: Color Theory Interactive - from the Poynter Institute. Good for middle school and up. See Causes of Color (science too) - Science of Color Vision and Art - Pigments through the Ages (lots of science). Additional Links for Color Symbolism:Use caution when teaching about color symbolism. Symbolism of colors varyfrom culture to culture. (See note to students) Color is considered one of the most useful and powerful design tools you have. People respond to different colors in different ways, and these responses take place on a subconscious, emotional level. In our American culture, black has long been associated with death, while white is believed to signify life and purity. In the Orient, however, white is the traditional color of mourning. In the United States, black has also come to suggest sophistication and formality. Americans generally associate trust an stability with the color blue, while Koreans have this reaction to pink and other pastel colors. In the Western Culture: Purple and gold are often associated with Royalty, wealth and opulence Red, White and Blue reminiscent of the American flag, immediately convey notions of patriotism and, to some extent, conservatism. Green has taken on a very strong connotation as the color representing ecology and concern for the environment, however, it also conveys meanings associated with money and the suggestion "to go ahead" which is obviously derived from traffic lights. Colors represent holidays and seasons of the year. The Fall foliage colors of Red, orange, yellow, and brown are clearly expressive of Thanksgiving. Halloween: Orange and Black. Red and Green represent Christmas. Purple and Yellow and other pastels colors represent Easter. Blue, Red, White and Grey = Stability, Power, Trustworthiness, Conservatism Yellow, Brown, Orange, Green = Nature, earthiness, warmth Red, Orange, yellow = more warmth Blues and Aquas = water and coolness Primary colors (Red, Blue, Yellow) = Convey fun Color symbolism in Zulu beading. Young girls learned bead work and the meaning of the symbols and colors used from their older sisters. The bead work was usually worn as a head or neck band. Men depended on female relatives to explain the code. The patterns and colors can also tell what region a woman comes from and what her social standing American Color SymbolismColors in Native American culture often symbolize different things fromculture to culture....African cultures have different meanings....andso on. Colors symbolize different qualities in various European American color symbols--CherokeeThe Four DirectionsColors were associated with the four represented North which meant cold, defeat and was South representing warmth, peace and was East, the color of the Sacred Fire, blood, and was black the color meaning problems and colors also had special was good but yellow meant trouble and Meanings of ColorsThis information was posted to Getty Teacher Art Exchange by Christine MerriamThe Four Sacred Mountains and directions are associated with colors. The Navajos belief is that their Creator placed them on the land between the following 4 mountains representing the 4 cardinal directions:White: Mount Blanca (Tsisnaasjini' - Dawn or White Shell Mountain) Sacred Mountain of the East near Alamosa in San Luis Valley, Colorado Blue: Mount Taylor (Tsoodzil - Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain) Sacred Mountain of the South north of Laguna, New Mexico Yellow: San Francisco Peaks (Doko'oosliid - Abalone Shell Mountain) Sacred Mountain of the West near Flagstaff, Arizona Black: Mount Hesperus Dibé Nitsaa (Big Mountain Sheep) - Obsidian Mountain Sacred Mountain of the North La Plata Mountains, Colorado. The principal colors, white, blue, yellow and black are linked to the four sacred mountains as well as the directions- Red is often considered a sacred color and represents sunlight. (source for this is off line now)White Mountain ApachesFour sacred colors of the White Mountain Apaches in east central Arizona contrastinterestingly with the Cherokee colors:White represents the north, source of snowYellow is east, where the sun comes upGreen is southBlack is west, home of the sun's settingThese colors are used in a variety of settings, from the tribal governmentseal to the ribbons on the cane of Changing Woman (the girls' pubertyceremony).Medicine Wheel color symbolism:EAST- dawn of new day-Yellow-illumination-inspiration-eagleSOUTH- red or green-passion, heart, warmth-emotions-porcupine WEST- black-introspection, self examination, reflection-bear NORTH- wisdom of our elders-white-white buffalo The Flag of the Flag of the Iowa NationThe color of the streamers brings together the four primarycolors in Native American art, the black, yellow, red and white. Thesecolors are said to represent the four races of man and the four primedirections of the compass. With its use of color and its chosen emblems theflag of the Iowas may be the most typical of all Native below was from a site I would not go to with students (site is no longer online) I have omitted all of the pagan color symbolism from this page. Sources were not American Color Symbolism (varies by ethnic group - this source was not "authoritative")Red (Faith): CommunicationYellow (Love): Overcoming challenges through unconditional loveBlue (Intuition): Using intuition to teach and serveGreen (Will): Living willfullyPink (Creativity): WorkingWhite (Magnetism): SharingPurple (Wisdom): Gratitude/healingOrange (Learning): KinshipGray (Honoring): FriendshipBrown (Knowing): Self-disciplineRose (Seeing): MotivationBlack (Hearing) Harmony; listeningCrystal (Clarity): Wholeness Asian Color SymbolismRed: Happiness, marriage, prosperityPink MarriageYellow: Against evil, for the dead, geomantic blessingsGreen: Eternity, family, harmony, health, peace, posterityBlue: Self-cultivation, wealthPurple: WealthWhite: Children, helpful people, marriage,mourning, peace, purity, travelGold: Strength, wealthGray: Helpful people, travelBlack: Career, evil influences, knowledge, mourning, penance, self-cultivationAstrological Color Associations (this source was not "authoritative") (SIGN--COLOR) Aries -- WhiteTaurus -- YellowGemini -- Red or PurpleCancer -- Bright GreenLeo -- Golden Yellow/OrangeVirgo -- Pale Blue or VioletLibra -- VioletScorpio -- Reddish BrownSagittarius -- Orange or PurpleCapricorn -- Brown or BlueAquarius -- Dark BluePisces -- White or PurpleColor in Sacred ArtColor meaning in sacred art -- various cultures given -- research notes on religious art by Dr. . MarslandColor Therapy - Color and the Brain Specific colors have different effects (list copied from )Black: self-confidence, power, strengthBlue: calming, lowers blood pressure, decreases respirationGreen: soothing, relaxing mentally as well as physically, helps those suffering from depression, anxiety, nervousnessViolet: suppresses appetite, provides a peaceful environment, good for migrainesPink: used in diet therapy as an appetite suppressant, relaxes muscles, relieves tension, soothingYellow: energizes, relieves depression, improves memory, stimulates appetiteOrange: energizes, stimulates appetite and digestive systemRed: stimulates brain wave activity, increases heart rate, respirations and blood pressure.....

第一个是列出各种颜色在中西方文化中的不同第2篇文章是用一些图做例子说明颜色对文化差异的不同

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。

Colors have direct effect on vision. It is common that people use different colors to express their feelings. In Chinese culture, red always indicate prosperous, happiness, cheerful, revolution and auspicious, so we always use red to decorate important days. For instance, during the spring festival, we paste red couplet, hang on red lantern and play red fireworks to celebrate spring festival. Therefore, there are many trademarks include the word of red, such as “红梅” beer, “红双喜” cigarettes and “红旗” car. But in the view of American and English, they regarded red as a negative word which always connected with violence, bleed, dangerous and misfortune, such as “red hands” and “red alert”. One of the academic brands “红灯” radio is once have a slow seller in abroad. Doing a survey then find out the reason is “Red light” in English means nightspot. From this, we can see that realize the cultural differences of target language are very important. For some western countries, they prefer white which they think it symbolizes purity, cleanliness and sophistication. So on the wedding ceremony, brides usually wear white wedding dress.