Differences in historical traditions between Chinese and Western cultures

A brief discussion on the cultural differences between China and the West. The cultural gap between China and the West is a topic that has been ongoing for a long time and is constantly heating up. With the development of economic globalization, this topic has been taken seriously by all walks of life. It has been selected into universities, especially science and engineering majors like ours.

University is enough to prove its importance.

Today we will not mention its importance at the national and corporate levels. We can only get a glimpse of it from a movie and the daily life of an ordinary Chinese family.

This film tells the story of a young Chinese man who came to the United States to study and find a job alone, and successfully started a family with an American woman and raised a boy.

The originally peaceful life was broken by the retirement of his old father who had lived in China for a long time and came to the United States to "reunite" with his family. After many twists and turns, it finally became peaceful again.

Let's analyze the cultural differences between China and the West with a few simple examples: 1. Breakfast in the morning. Chinese grandfather's breakfast is a traditional Chinese breakfast. It is a big bowl full and very loud. This is a traditional custom of the Chinese people. Eat hot.

Yes, oily food, which is very unhealthy in the eyes of Westerners, so the American daughter-in-law only eats biscuits to supplement sugar and lettuce leaves to supplement vitamins, without any oil or fat.

2. Exercise method: Chinese grandfather is a Tai Chi master, so morning exercise also involves meditating, doing some relatively gentle exercises, and writing calligraphy after exercise. This is completely in line with the introverted character of the Chinese people and the traditional idea of ??stopping by stillness.

The American daughter-in-law uses running to exercise. There is no doubt that running is a good exercise. It exercises various body functions and fully reflects the enthusiasm and energetic characteristics of Americans. In the eyes of Chinese grandfathers, it is too easy to dress too much in the morning.

If it's too exposed, it becomes so uncomfortable.

3. Regarding the privacy of the grandson, the grandfather jokingly teased the child after taking a bath, saying, "It depends on you to continue the family lineage." This caused strong dissatisfaction from the American daughter-in-law. The United States is a country that emphasizes human rights. Americans believe that regardless of the child,

Even as adults, privacy must be respected, and the traditional Chinese thinking is "Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Virtues". The father is the guideline for the son, and everything a son has is given by his father, so there is no privacy.

4. Stomach Problems: The American daughter-in-law suffers from stomach problems. The Chinese grandfather tried to treat his daughter-in-law through the theory of Chinese meridians. This thing does not exist in the anatomy that Americans have learned since childhood, so they naturally do not believe it. Moreover, due to various previous problems, it will definitely lead to

She became even more nervous and suffered from stomach bleeding, and the Chinese grandfather was even more unable to defend himself when faced with questions from his children and grandchildren.

There is fundamentally no right or wrong in this matter, but the psychology of Chinese and Western medicine is different.

5. Cartoons The cartoons my grandson watches are American cartoons. As we all know, the United States is a country with a strong atmosphere of heroism. There is always a certain hero who stands up to kill the bad guys and save the world.

Chinese cartoons represent the educational attitude of the Chinese people, guiding children to be kind and tolerant.

Even in a work like Journey to the West, where good and evil are very obvious, the four people are all monks. Even if they are monsters, they must be treated with tolerance and released after education.

6. Phone calls and feelings. After being lonely for many years, a Chinese grandfather naturally wanted to have a wife to accompany him in his later years. However, when his son called and proposed to go on an outing together, although the father really wanted to go, he still said it very tactfully, which is in line with the implicit Chinese people.

character traits.

When they went on an outing, the young man deliberately brought the two old people together to make progress. However, in the old people's minds, this was not a good intention, but "manipulation" and disrespect for their parents' identity, which made them feel ashamed.

In the end of the story, the two old people moved out of their children's residence alone and lived their own lives. Although it was not an ideal happy ending, it was meaningful. They lived in the same city but did not live in the same place. They just wanted to visit their grandchildren when they wanted to, and they

I will definitely go, because Chinese people can’t stop thinking about their children. No matter how old their children are, they are an inseparable part of themselves. This is also one of the indelible characteristics of the Chinese people.