摘 要

本文依托《喜宴》这部李安导演的著名影片，以影片中所反映出的中西文化差异尤其是婚俗差异的生动情节作为切入点，分析并指出中西方婚俗中的区别及特点。本文主要从四个方面进行概述：婚礼的主色调以及婚礼的礼服，婚礼亮点，宴会形式，以及婚礼禁忌。此外，本文通过对大四学生的问卷调查研究发现西方婚俗对中国青年一代有诸多影响，当今年轻人的婚俗观发生了巨大改变，西方婚礼的习俗不断融合渗透进中国现代婚礼当中。通过分析对此作出相应的概括，其原因简单来说有五点，语言学习的广泛性，经济的迅速发展，宗教信仰的局限性不断减小，思维模式不断融合，价值观不断改变。西方婚礼元素融入中式婚礼中的现象，使得中国婚礼呈现多样性，国际化的趋势，作者对此作出简短的利弊分析。

关键词：婚俗；差异；融合；婚礼
 
Abstract

This paper describes many a difference in various aspects in Chinese culture and western culture, especially, the wedding customs on the basis of the vivid plots which reflect the differences and characteristics in Chinese and western wedding customs in the famous movie ‘The Wedding Banquet’. This paper makes a brief introduction to Chinese and western wedding customs, including main color and clothes in the wedding, highlights on the wedding day, forms of wedding banquets and wedding taboos. A questionnaire survey was conducted among senior college students to explore the youth’s attitudes to wedding customs. Statistical results show that great changes have taken place in the youth’s attitudes towards wedding customs, which reflects western wedding customs have deeply penetrated into Chinese weddings. Five factors account for the trend of the Chinese wedding customs, which are the wide range of language learning, the rapid economic development, less limitation of different religions and beliefs, the blending of different thinking modes and values changes. Finally, this paper attempts to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the Chinese weddings in combination with western wedding elements.

Keywords: wedding customs; difference; blending; wedding

Chapter 1 Introduction
A wedding is a ceremony where two individual persons want to get united in front of the family, relatives and friends. Wedding customs or traditions will vary greatly among regions or countries, cultural backgrounds, religions, ethnic groups as well as social classes. Weddings not only show the outlook of the social life, but also demonstrate the cultural content of a nation and some ethnic values. The English word， ‘wed’ is originated from the ancient Greek word for the meaning of “pledge”, which is exactly what a wedding is.No matter what country the wedding ceremony is taken place in or no matter what culture it belongs to. Weddings ought to pledge one person to another. There are few acts that people perform which can be compared with the act of marriage which is pretty purer and more sacred.To some extent, marriage can be regarded as the strongest bond in the world.