摘　要

英国绅士文化源远流长。从古至今，从最早的贵族阶层到而后的多种社会人才，都无不体现了英国绅士文化。并在英国整个社会阶层中，绅士文化具有举足轻重的影响力。因此该选题的研究有助于人们更好了解英国绅士文化以及英国上层阶级概况。本文将就英国绅士文化对英国上层阶级社交行为的影响作出系统的阐述。论文采用文献研究法、描述性研究法等研究方法，围绕英国绅士文化的产生、现状和发展，英国上层阶级社会的概况，以及英国上层阶级社交行为的表现等方面进行深入探讨，从而得出英国绅士文化对英国上层阶级在人际交往、餐桌礼仪、社会教育、宗教、婚礼以及葬礼等方面都存在一定的影响，从而为中英两国的政治交流、经济交流以及文化交流等提供借鉴。

关键词：英国绅士文化；贵族；上层阶级；社交行为
 
Abstract

The British gentleman culture has a long history. Traced back from the earliest aristocratic stratum to varied social talents, it all reflects the British gentleman culture. The gentleman culture has an very important influence on the entire social stratum in Britain. This research can make contributions to understanding the British gentleman culture and overviewing the British up-class. This paper will give a detailed account of the influence of the British gentleman culture on the British upper class’s social etiquette, and it will mainly focus on the emergence, current situation and evolution of the British gentleman culture, the general situation of the British up class, representations of the social etiquette of the British up-class,etc, with the help of literature research method, descriptive research method, etc. It is concluded that the British gentleman culture has effect on the Btritish Upper Class in the following way such as the human communication, the dinner etiquette, the social education, the religion, the wedding and the funeral customs. It is hoped that this article will help in political comunications, economic exchange, culture exchange, etc between China and Britain.

Key words: British gentleman culture; aristocratic; up-class; social etiquette

1 Introduction
    This paper focuses on the British gentleman culture,which was evolved from the spirit of the British aristocracy, and the integration of all classes of life values was absorbed in the process of evolution. The British upper class absorbing the gentleman culture directly reflects in the class social etiquette. But it also led to the gentleman cultural’s excessively conservative, and the respecting for the traditional gentleman culture is seen as a form of pursuit. However, as the social etiquette of the British upper classes prevailed, the gentleman culture played a very important role in literature, art, and philosophy, and it is seen as an essential quality of the finest people. In short, learning gentleman culture can help avoid weaknesses and transform this spiritual as a heritage today. How to deal with the cultural heritage of the nation-state of modern society now has become a thought-provoking questions.The researcher eventually draw the conclusion that British people hold the view that British gentleman is not created as a prototype for certain social class, but it is the hybridity from the images of all levels of society in the UK. In the long-term development of British society, the gentleman culture fused the multicultural values eventually, which became the ties of all sectors of society.