【正文】 estival in every Chinese and overseas Chinese eyes, is the most important festivals. Its celebration activities are rich and solemn. Lin, a famous Chinese scholar, of Spring Festival, had done a good description, ancient Chinese lunar New Year, China39。s origins can be traced back to thousands of years evolving series of colorful legends and traditions.China has long in the feudal selfsufficient natural economy and agricultural society, the traditional festival has a strong color of agriculture, farming civilization of social characteristics, mainly from the old time to convert. In ancient China, for the longterm by agriculture in productivity and agricultural technology developed circumstances, attaches great importance to the influence of climate on crops. In summer, autumn injected, DongCang, during the process of understanding the nature of plex sequence, summarize four nights, 24, has formed by the traditional festival holiday. Hardworking Chinese people to live better, we must make great efforts to develop agriculture and agricultural development from the weather. The ancients cloud spring, if you clear oil, a busy wheat field gu yu. In ancient times, the Spring Festival, the qingming festival (ancient says march is the important ones. Chinese traditional festivals, feudal society period and survived, the inevitable with the feudal: hierarchy and enclosed, familybased, each with family, family holiday all internal activity center. Holiday, young man, household must worship for the reunion dinner, family and family altogether celebrates the holiday. Even the New Year, Spring Festival is also rightness each other in between relatives. Even the outdoor people, also is a yangge dance performance properties of activity, no national nature of the carnival. In addition, the Chinese festival is another significant characteristic of Chinese food culture embodies the custom. Everyone has the different characteristic festival food requirements, with different from other festival. Like to eat dumplings, yuanxiao, zongzi, moon cake, etc. China embodies the Chinese festival of virtue and fashion, aged respected, xu family, is a fine tradition of our nation, should carry on, so people have clung to the Chinese festival custom, good atmosphere. Even like the day, nor who want to abandon Chinese festival.B. the origin of British traditional festivalIn British countries, religion is a social and cultural center. Meanwhile, through human for god or religious beliefs of the spirit of their control. It is no exaggeration to say, religious exists in all walks of life. Therefore, the festival is closely related with the Christian Christmas, Easter, except with religion.British culture by the influence due to long, the traditional Christian festivals with strong religious origins, such as valentine39。s love of life. There is a famous: each national holiday, is that each national culture is the most realistic. Visible, want to understand the culture of a nation must be from them, the traditional festivalsII. The origins and forms of the British and Chinese festivals.Chinese and British festival and customs have obvious difference. Chinese festival mainly for their age and throttle lucky and happy holiday custom to eat, for the theme, the main reason is the pursuit of life in Chinese, for the purpose of longevity and health, and through the diet to realize, British festival mainly es from religion and related events, memory, and god bless the holiday custom to play as the theme, the main reason is the pursuit of life in the west, and for the purpose of healthy and happy by religious and entertainment activities. Different ethnic traditional festivals, and the difference of national or by having the same culture of many people survive form of culture system and way of life is closely related to the difference. Traditional ethnic festival is a plex social cultural phenomenon, and contains a national historical formation and precipitation of personality, psychological, beliefs, ideas, ways of thinking, moral sentiment, aesthetic and cultural connotation of the deep structure of the value orientation of national spirit, is in a particular society on the soil of longterm results and important carrier, is a national survival form, the most prominent feature of the show. It is closely associated with the activities of production and understanding people and social historical development activities and produce, evolution and transformation, and controlled by people of different material life and different history of ideology, but also in different levels in the people39。[關(guān)鍵詞] 傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日。中國和西方國家的節(jié)日及其習(xí)俗有著比較明顯的差異。通過比較中西方節(jié)日差異, 討論認(rèn)識(shí)西方各民族的歷史與文化, 有助于語言學(xué)習(xí)者與西方各民族加強(qiáng)溝通與了解。不同的民族傳統(tǒng)節(jié)慶之差異，都與該民族或由具有相同文化特質(zhì)的諸多民族所構(gòu)成的文化體系的生存形態(tài)和生活方式的差異密切相關(guān)。s emotion world, the people39。s ideas and values. Custom differences as an important part of cultural differences affect people with more direct specific role.Through the parison of the differences between Chinese festival custom, this paper analyses the characteristics of its own, to help us more objectively understanding of Chinese culture, more profound understanding prehensively, we have positive significance in foreign culture, thus improving intercultural munication petence.A. the origin of Chinese traditional festivalsChina is an ancient civilized country Orient. Its long history and tradition for traditional festivals grew provided fertile soil. As a great agricultural country, Chinese culture is deeply rooted in agriculture. Therefore, the agricultural activities make holiday has local color more. Spring Festival and some agricultural activities, such as planting, harvest, closely related. As the most important holiday in China, Spring Festival39。s participation and interactivity, all the emotions, warm revelers vent, selfcentered, advocates personality, Thanksgiving and Christmas and valentine39。s day. Compared with their new way is much more romantic, in lat