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Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and Extreme Unction(Ye Shuxian, 1990). Numeral nine is the ultimate ideal of Christianity, which is supposed to represent the human being to do good things in this good Karma and symbolizes the best treatment for human being sins after God. People will be in the heaven only by do the “ten mandments”. At the same time, the numeral “ten” is also a symbol of the “cross”, on which Jesus was crucified. The Typical Numerals in Chinese ReligionIn the five thousand years development process of cultural history in China, the influence of religions belief is very outstanding。 the famous book Pilgrimage to the West has the story about Monkey King, so the sentence says like this “monkey King has seventytwo changes” in Chinese “孫悟空有七十二變也”。 on the contrary they monly used “a baker’s dozen” instead of “thirteen”. (In 15 century, in order to avoid being punished by British governments because of lacking of quality, the bread bakery will add one more for free in the provision of a dozen.) Numeral is a kind of language carrying much important cultural information. It is used frequently as the very high thinking and munication tool. The worship and taboo of numeral closely linked with the nation’s spiritual world, thinking mode, national psychology and traditional customs etc. Hence, from the perspective of national psychology, it is clear that different nations respectively focus on different numeral worships and taboos with their great passions. The Relationship between Numerals and Language AestheticsLanguage is the key to the aesthetics feeling of beauty, the aesthetics value, which means in order to achieve successful munication and the exchanges of different ideas, authors use some certain words in specific language environment to acquire the skills and techniques of aesthetics feeling. Aesthetics is a scientific study of language rules of beauty. Numerals as a kind of special language, it is no doubt that the use of numeral in every aspect, especially the idioms associated with numerals in literary reflects the beauty of language incisively and vividly. Numerals related with some good things together can give a person with beautiful enjoyment. Numerals and Chinese AestheticsIn China, there are many idioms from one to ten numerals that closed related and fully reflects the value of the figures in the language of aesthetics. From the figure of speech in literature to the ordinary language conversation, people always could find someway to cater for their good wishes and fortable feelings in language, so the typical numerals without exception in many language cases wherever in the excellent poem or ordinary words in China.In Chinese, there are many words and numeral idioms to vividly describe something at that moment. Just as the following specific examples: 一元復(fù)始 (unary restart。 雙喜臨門 (good things e in pairs。 second thoughts are best.)。 wellfeatured.)。 a body of seven feet in height 。 make a magnificent appearance.)。 十拿九穩(wěn) (it’s dollars to buttons。 Yang Zhuying, 1992) In Tang Dynasty, the prominent poet Wang Wei wrote a poem “Thinking of My Brothers on Mountain Climbing Day” in Chinese “九月九日憶山東兄弟”, which means that he recalled his brothers on Double Ninth Festival. Li Bai, another famous poet in the same Dynasty with Wang Wei, wrote this classic sentence “it is torrent dashes down three thousand feet from high, as if the Silver River fell down from azure sky.” in Chinese “飛流直下三千尺,疑是銀河落九天”(Xu Yuanchong, 1995). What’s more, there are a great deal of numeral idioms and poems in Chinese. For instance: 曇花一現(xiàn) (a nine days wonder)。 polite society.Nowadays, due to customs differences between Chinese and western culture, the accurate use of the most words associated with numerals is the paraphrase method. Here are examples in such cases. He as on cloud nine after winning 。 貓有九命 (a cat has nine lives)。 practically certain.), 十全十美 (the peak of perfection。 be land of nowhere。 八面玲瓏 (be smooth and slick in establishing social relations。 七級浮屠 (Seven Circles of Hell。 boundary on all sides.), 四海為家 (home today and gone tomorrow, cosmopolitans .)。 have simultaneously two happy events in a family.), 二度梅開 (the winter sweet has the second chance to open.)。 roses all the way。 their taboo languages also involve various aspects, especially traditional nation psychology. The numeral “seven” and “four” are widely regarded as unlucky numerals in China. Because numeral four is pronounced “si”(四)in Chinese, so it is homophonically equal to the English word “death”. In some places in China, consequently, people even do not choose “four” to make logo or say something. People particularly avoid to using “fourteen” (homophonic “die”) as much as possible, “five one four” (homophonic “I die”)﹙Liu Yanhui, 2009﹚. In Chinese culture, numeral “seven” is also often used by people as taboo numerals. When giving someone gifts, it is not auspicious to use seven samples. In western countries, people use taboo numeral “thirteen”, “Friday” and “two”. Thirteen, the most unpopular numeral among them, is widely considered to be very dangerous and ominous symbol that originated from the religious myth。 “九州方圓” (kyu shu fang yuan) that indicates the territory is so vast and unlimited. In addition, numeral “nine” is the totem text of the dragon and enjoys unique exalted position. Therefore, in order to show his divine power bestowed by God for assignment, every emperor in ancient China was trying to associate himself with the divine numeral “nine”. Since number nine and the English word “l(fā)ong” are unisonance in China, so emperors always use “nine” to symbolize their rules forever. The queen of England visited China in 1987, she picked in the lunar September ninth day of Chung Yeung Festival (also called the Double Ninth Festival). Numeral “ninetynine” is no exception, which means “everlasting”. In recent years, young people in China influenced by western customs live a well match of Chinese and western Valenti