When it comes to the similarities and differences between Chinese and British cultures, what is culture first?
The word Cultura comes from the Latin word Cultura, which means to cultivate, cultivate, educate, develop, and respect. And the Latin Cultura is derived from the Latin Cultus. Cultus has two meanings: 1. Cultus deorum. Cultus means to cultivate for the worship of god. Cultus Agori refers to farming for a living.
Therefore, Cultus in terms of physical activity means the need for survival, the need to transform nature for harvest; In the aspect of spiritual activities, it involves religious worship and the behavior norms of social members. Cultus reflects the trajectory of the human mind involved in the productive labor of farming, which is farming for what? Later, Cultus was gradually replaced by Culture, giving rise to the word "Cultus", which means cultivation, cultivation, education, development, respect, etc. Cicero, the famous Roman orator (106 -- 43 BC), expressed this escape quite precisely in his famous saying "The culture of wisdom is philosophy". In this way, the concept of culture is expanded to include not only man's purposeful influence on the natural world (cultivated land), but also the cultivation and training of man himself, thus extending the broad concept of culture.
As the connotation of "culture" expands gradually, the concept gradually evolves into an independent concept. The German jurist S. Pfendorfer (1632 -- 1694) was the first to use the concept of "culture" as an independent concept. In his opinion, "culture" is the sum of the things created by the social activities of human beings and the things existing depending on human and social life.
The word "Culture" is translated as "Culture" with Chinese cultural background. "Wen" in Chinese has the meaning of "elegant", "character" and so on. As "culture", its fundamental meaning refers to "civilizational education", which is opposite to "Wuwei". Liu Xiang of the Western Han dynasty wrote in his book "The Garden of Shuo zhi Wu" : "The prosperity of wu is not satisfied. The culture does not change, and then the accusers." This is probably the earliest origin of the word "culture". "Culture" here refers to "culture and governance" corresponding to "martial arts".
With the development of The Times and the rapid development of China's economy, the country has been opened to the outside world. More and more Chinese people have gone abroad to visit or live in the UK, and British people have also come to China to study and work. The two countries, as powerful exporters of eastern and Western civilizations, have a strong attraction for their own people. That for their countries' culture has its own understanding, this is because, different people have their own special way of life, different from other national way of thinking, aesthetic temperament and interest, emotion, value scale intention and psychological quality, simply put, they have to distinguish himself from others of the unique "culture".
And culture plays an important role in our lives. Therefore, I will discuss the influence of the similarities and differences between Chinese and British cultures on our daily communication.
