摘　 要

本文主要从女性婚姻观念、订婚方式、举办婚礼方式、离婚观念、传统婚姻、受教育方式、两个家庭之间经济因素的影响以及忍耐力等方面的不同分析中国和美国的婚姻观念差异。本文旨在通过整理和分析中国和美国的婚姻形势，随之深层剖析他们研究内容的差异并进行比较。对于美国人而言，由于开放的思想观念，致使美国人喜欢采取积极的态度面对婚姻。相反地，在中国，由于根深蒂固的中国传统风俗，中国善于用较为传统的思维方式对待婚姻。针对中国和美国的婚姻现状的层层剖析，毫无疑问这将会有利于提高婚姻幸福指数。更有甚可能会起到降低离婚率的重要作用。

关键词：中国；美国；婚姻观念；婚姻幸福指数

Abstract

This paper mainly analyzes the difference of marriage views between China and America from the difference of women’s marriage concepts, engagement, ways of holding a wedding, views on divorce, traditional marriage, education, economic factors and degree of tolerance. According to the papers written by the famous experts both from China and America, the current situation of marriage nowadays in China and America can be presented. A deep analysis and comparison of contents which they studied will be showed. As for Americans, they have formed a habit of taking positive attitudes towards marriage because of wide views. To the contrary, in China, due to the deep Chinese traditional custom, Chinese would take traditional ways of thinking. As for the current situation of marriage in China and America, there is no doubt that it can be an efficient way to improve the happy index of marriage, even it may have an important effect on the descent of divorce rate.

Key words: China; America; marriage views; happy index of marriage

1 Introduction
This paper mainly states the differences of marriage views between China and America from the comparison of different marriages views and the major reasons between China and America. As is known to all, marriage views are the most important factors which have a direct connection with the happy index of marriage.
As for the differences of marriage views between China and America, women’s marriage concepts, engagements, ways of holding a wedding and views on divorce will be discussed. The major part of this paper discusses the reasons of differences of marriage views between China and America, including traditional marriage in ancient China and America, the education, the economic factors between two families and the level of tolerance both in China and America.From the paper, it is a fact that Americans and Chinese have different marriage views, however, they still share some similarities on love and marriage views. As is known to all, generally, Americans hold open ways of thinking, which leads to the open mind of marriage views. To the contrary, Chinese always hold conservative ways of thinking. Thus, their marriage views usually tend to be narrow.