中西方文化差异之植物.ppt

Cultural Diffreneces in Plants Reason 原因： In the past China, the poets liked write the gorgeous plants always. So many trees and flowers has rich associative meaning and cultural connotation. Because the English speaking countries are influenced by western classical myth story and history, so the complex to plant is so strong. Because of the differences of cultural background and Traditional customs, two peoples have differences in the same plant. 目录. 一. meaning is different fuliy 二. meaning is different partly 三. meaning just in one cultuer 红豆 Ormosia or Rea-bean meaning in Chinese 　 　Ormosia is loved by people in Chinese culture, also called bean of love. It is the symbol of love. All persons from emperors to the normal persons like to collect rad-bean to lovers. meaning in westerm 　But in the western culture ,red-bean is negative. It has the means that people lost the major interests for the minor interests. Western people hating red-bean`s reason is from a story of Bible. The story say that Esau gives his power to Jacob just for a bowl of red-bean soup. 荷花 lotus meaning in Chinese Water lily has always been a gentleman In Chinese culture. And it was repeatedly used in architecture, sculpture, literature and painting. It also is the holy things of buddhist and Taoist. The Buddha and the goddess of mercy sit on the water lily. meaning in westerm Water lily means lotus in English. This meaning is from Odyssey of Homer. In the Odyssey ,there is a story that people in the island eat lotus only. Ti has the magic power that it can make persons forget the past things, and make people lethargy. 目录. 一. meaning is different fuliy 二. meaning is different partly 三. meaning just in one cultuer 柳 Willow meaning in Chinese The osier is the symbol of leaving. So it is used to express the leaving`s heart-broken. In Chinese, leaving has the same pronunciation with osier. People wil