【正文】 o the bride. For example: the friends of the groom take an apple in the air with a string, then both the bride and groom must eat the apple without any help but their own mouths. The game will not stop until the friends of the groom pleased. After three days of marriage the bride will go back to see her parents. Also the groom must go with the bride. And they must bring some presents with them. In western wedding ceremony, first, in wedding march, the bride’s father put the bride’s hands to the priest. Then the bride and the groom will make marriage statements. The priest ask the bride and groom: “would you take this woman (man) to be your lawful wedded wife (husband) to live together in holy estate of matrimony? Will you love her (him), cherish her (him), keep her (him), honor her (him) in sickness, in health, forsaking all others and cleave only to her (him) so long as both shall live?” If the bride and groom answer “yes”, t he priest will let them exchange the doublering ceremonies, and then the bride and groom kiss each other. At this moment, the priest will say: “I now pronounce you husban d and wife, and hope you’ll be very happy”. 7 Ⅳ. Reasons for the Differences above A. Different Religions Among all the religion which people seek to worship, Christianity is by far the most influential in the west. Every phase of man’s life is touched by this religion, so it has bee part and parcel of western culture. British dominant religious belief is Christian faith。 it is a social convention, practices and cultural patterns of civic life. It widely varies in content, including the ritual practices, such as wedding and funeral customs. Marriage is not only a physical individual act, but also a kind of social behavior of its essence. Marriage marks the end of youth, the new period the beginning of adult life. It’s not only related to the happiness of both men and women in the future life, but also affects the links between the two families and the rise and fall of the future generations. So marriage is subject to special attention around the world, and is considered as a very important matter. Customs relating to marriage also reflects a lot of cultural phenomenon. Marriage, as a cultural phenomenon, is a relationship between both men and women married. Wedding customs are produced, associating with the production of marriage, and it shows the social life of ethnic groups, as well as aesthetics, ethics, religion, sexual awareness concepts and national psychological development, and is the cultural accumulation of human creation and spiritual wealth. Since ancient times, in almost every kind of social culture, there are wedding customs. With the wedding can the husband and wife are publicly determined. The wedding forms subtly changes along with the constant development of human society. But overall, Chinese and western wedding customs which evolved from the traditional culture did not change a much. The following is the historical development of Chinese and western wedding customs as well as the differences, reasons and the conclusion, which can be further discussed in parison. Ⅱ. Historical Development of Chinese and Western Wedding Customs Every custom e from the long historical development. Wedding custom also has its developed process. From long historical development, China and the West have their own wedding custom processes. A. Historical Development of Chinese Wedding Custom The change of marriage is an indispensable part of the social development, but also reflects the economy, polity and culture of the specific period in society in real life. China is one of the most ancient civilized countries, marriage customs in different historical periods are also different, rich and varied. For the Wedding form, the Chinese Wedding custom experienced the process which was from simple to plex, and then from plex to simple. Chinese Ancient marriage is mainly capture marriage. Because the plunder marriage is conducted in the dark, so the marriage, at first called “stunning result”, the so called wedding means “marry when faint” the brutal plundering marriage with a barbarous strong color, coupling with various conditions, the wedding in the initial sense was very simple. With the progress of human civilization and political and economic development, weddings gradually bee an important ritual in life, and its forms were increasingly plex with enhance of their status. From the Yanhuang Great to The May Fourth Movement, Chinese wedding custom had been preserving the Chinese traditional wedding custom. According to the Confucian classics recorded， our traditional marriage betrothal rites, the most prominent, most notably “ six rites”, they were, Proposing, asking the name, ask ing for fortune ,sending betrothal presents to the girl’s family, discussing the date of marriage, meeting the bride. “Six rites”, the marrying forms, had been established in Zhou Dynasty, first seen in “The Book of Rites ? faint justice”. Its contents of instrument Notes are more plex. Marriage can deeply reflect the Confucian culture in our country, but there were socalled “ritual no less than mon people”, the frame, did not reach in the folk. To the Han dynasty, six rites began to be universal applied. The later generations mostly followed Zhou, but the items and content changed a little. The six wedding ceremony employed from PreQin era in the later were generally simple and binable. This is also one of the manifestations of social progress. But China’s first turning point of marriage system should be the same as the beginning of modern Chinese history. After the Opium War, China began to bee a semicolonial semifeudal society, and the treaty ports provided a shortcut for the bringing in of the variety of imported Western culture. Old cult