Abstract:

Along with the development of the reform and opening up to the outside world, the communication between China and Britain is expanding broadly and widely and cross-cultural communication has gradually become an indispensable element in our daily life so that daily manners play an important role in people’s life. Based on the Iceberg Theory, the paper aims to analyze the differences in daily behavior manners between China and Britain to expound the cultural factors that cause these differences，which shall be eventually applied to daily cross-cultural communication so as to avoid misunderstanding and inappropriate behavior. It is intended to promote cultural exchanges between China and Britain, establish and maintain a good relationship.

Key words: daily manners; differences; influence

摘要：

改革开放以来，中国与英国之间的交流也越来越多，跨文化交际已经成为人们生活中不可或缺的内容，因而正确运用礼貌的行为举止在人们的日常活中起着重要作用。本文以冰山理论为支撑，通过对中英的日常行为举止的不同之处进行对比分析, 得出了因文化因素而造成这种差异的结论，目的是使其能运用到跨文化日常交际中，从而避免不恰当的行为举止造成误解,更好地促进中英文化交流，建立和保持良好关系。

关键词：日常行为举止；差异；影响

1. Introduction
Since the 21st century，the trend of economic globalization has become stronger day by day, and the international cultural exchange has become increasingly frequent. As a result, the cross-cultural communication between China and Western countries has entered a period of unprecedented prosperity. The contacts between China and Britain are particularly important, with the government’s intimate association, economic and trade cooperation, cultural and educational exchanges between the two countries. Prerequisite for bilateral successful exchanges and cooperation is mutual understanding cross-cultural communication not only in language aspect, but also in the respect of understanding daily behavior manners.