中西方颜色文化差异英语作文

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 “” beer, “” 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 “”. 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.本回答被网友采纳