摘要

当今世界跨国交流日益频繁，但是，在对外交流中往往仍会遭遇文化壁垒，导致交流失败甚至产生误会。因此，探究各国文化的差异所在，推动世界人民以更加开放、更加包容的态度相互协作之研究显得尤为必要，是时代发展所需。
本文主要以电影《喜宴》为例，着重分析中美婚礼的文化差异，并运用文献法、对比法以及举例法等，对电影中典型中美婚姻习俗特点，以及现实生活中的部分婚俗习惯进行对比研究，探究其背后的文化和宗教成因，旨在找出对外交流过程中产生文化壁垒的可能因素，促进交流的顺利进行。
本文总体分为五章。第一章是绪论，明确本文的写作目的，勾勒出文章的大致框架；第二章是文献综述，系统梳理了国内外对婚姻、婚俗方面的研究成果；第三、四章是本论文的主体，分别对电影《喜宴》中的中美不同的婚俗进行一一对比分析，并且深入阐释产生这些差异背后的文化和宗教成因；最后一章在总结的基础上探讨了文化壁垒背后的成因对跨国交流的用处，并指出本文研究的局限之处及对未来研究的一些建议。

关键词：中美婚俗；对比；文化成因；宗教成因

Abstract

Nowadays, the international exchange are becoming more and more frequently. However, when comes to international exchanges, the cultural barriers are inevitable and sometimes even cause misunderstanding. Thus it is necessary to study the cultural differences among the different countries to improve the world citizen work together with a spirit of openness and tolerance.
This paper aims to discuss the cultural discrepancies of Chinese and American marriages through the film “The Wedding Banquet”. This paper applies documentary method, comparison and contrast, and exemplification to contrast the typical Chinese and American marriage customs within the film as well as some marriage customs in daily life with the purpose of finding out the reasons behind culture and religion. In this way, it can work out the possible reasons of cultural barriers in cultural exchange to promote the communication.
There are five chapters in this paper. Chapter one is the introduction to identify the purpose and layout of the paper. Chapter two is the literature review on the existing studies about marriage and marriage customs between China and America. Chapter three and four are the main parts of this paper and we will make a contrast of marriage customs in China and America within the film to analyze the cultural and religious reasons of the differences between Chinese and American marriage. The last chapter, based on the conclusion of the whole paper, tells the benefit for international exchange about the reason behind the cultural barriers. Besides, it expresses the limits of the paper and gives some advises for the further study.

Key words: marriage customs in China and America; contrast; cultural factors; religious factors