【正文】 ne’day, February 14th, young men fall in love with girls and send them “ninetynine” or “nine hundred and ninetynine” roses in that day to show their love. This phenomenon is being more and more popular nowadays. In addition, there are many folks associated with the multiples of number “nine” in China, such as “eighteen”, “thirtysix”, “seventytwo”, etc. As the saying goes well in China “a female will have eighteen changes when she grows up” in Chinese “女大十八變”。 the holy spirit has seven gift。本文從文化的角度來分析這些因素，從而達(dá)到減少在跨文化交際中不同民族溝通的誤解來促進(jìn)真正意義上的跨文化交際的目的。世界各地的任何語言都是植根于特定的文化背景，反映了特定的文化內(nèi)容。論文作者簽名： 年 月 日 論文指導(dǎo)教師簽名：目 錄一、 論文正文………………………………………………1—17二、 附錄1． 畢業(yè)論文成績(jī)?cè)u(píng)定表2． 答辯小組意見3． 答辯成績(jī)?cè)u(píng)分表4． 論文指導(dǎo)記錄5． 開題報(bào)告CONTENTSAbstract i摘要 iiI. Introduction 1 II. The Analysis of Numerals Differences between China and West Cultures………………………………………………………………….2 The Relationship between Numeral and Religion 2 The Typical Numerals in Western Religion 3 The Typical Numerals in Chinese Religion 4 The Relationship between Numerals and National Psychology 5 Numerals and Chinese Psychology 6 Numerals and Western Psychology 8 Typical Taboo Numerals in Chinese and Western 9 The Relationship between Numerals and Language Aesthetics 10 Numerals and Chinese Aesthetics 10 Numerals and English Aesthetics 12 III. The Cultural Differences of Numerals and CrossCulture Communication 14IV. Conclusion 15References 17Acknowledgements iiiThe Cultural Differences of Numbers between Chinese and EnglishDu Bianbian【Abstract】The human languages convey profound historical cultures and national features. And any language all over the world is rooted in a specific cultural background, reflecting the specific cultural contents. Numerals, being an extremely special language branch, have played crucial roles in the development of human society over thousand of years. Numerals and human life are closely related to each other. The function of numeral in human culture is not only limited in the count of mathematics, but also is a mysterious cultural symbol, which forms a unique numeral culture phenomenon. Numeral plays an important role in human cultural exchanges and development, reflecting the distinctive cultural characteristics. However, there are quite a few differences in religious beliefs, ethical psychology culture, and languages aesthetics in Chinese and westerners, so numerals have been given to the different cultural connotations in different cultural contexts, from the perspective of culture, this paper analyzes these factors to reduce misunderstandings in munication and promote the awareness of crosscultural munication. Key Words: Numeral culture。分類號(hào) 密 級(jí) 編 號(hào) 本科生畢業(yè)論文題 目 數(shù)字在中西方文化中的差異 學(xué) 院 外國(guó)語學(xué)院 專 業(yè) 英 語 作者姓名 杜 變 變 班 級(jí) 2009級(jí)二班 學(xué) 號(hào) 294010604 指導(dǎo)教師 馬 金 海 提交日期 2013. 5. 23 xviiThe Cultural Differences of Numerals between China and West CulturesDu BianbianA thesisSubmitted to the School of Foreign Languages and Literature Tianshui Normal University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree ofBACHELOR OF ARTSinENGLISH LANGUAGETianshui, GansuMay, 2013原創(chuàng)性聲明本人鄭重聲明：本人所呈交的論文是在指導(dǎo)教師的指導(dǎo)下獨(dú)立進(jìn)行研究所取得的成果。本聲明的法律責(zé)任由本人承擔(dān)。 Intercultural munication數(shù)字在中西方文化中的差異杜變變【摘要】人類的語言傳達(dá)深厚的歷史文化和民族特色。然而，由于不同民族宗教信仰﹑民族心理文化以及語言美學(xué)等諸因素在中西方文化中的差異，致使數(shù)字在不同的文化背景下已被賦予了不同的文化內(nèi)涵。 the virgin Mary had seven happy things, seven sad things。 especially the three major religions even have their own irreplaceable roles respectively in China. But here among them, Chinese is rather familiar with Buddhism than other religions. The ominous hazards of numbers also has great deal of examples to embody religious influence in Chinese culture, such as the number “one hundred and eight” has a close relationship with Buddhism. “One hundred and eight” can be used as a symbol of the Buddha in Buddhism throughout the daily life and the important things of Buddhism: Buddhist Budhidharma on behalf of a total of Buddha namely “one hundred and eight Buddha” in the show of faith to Buddha. The Chinese nation considers that the “ten” is full, meaning “pleteness”, “success” or “perfection”, which in Chinese “ 十全十美、完美、圓滿 ”. Therefore, people use the numeral ten as a standard to describe the fullest extent of things, meanwhile fully show cultural meanings of numerals. Such as “ 十大圣人 ” (the ancient 10th St.), “ 十大兵書 ” ( the military books ten Bingshu), also there is “Kilometer Street” in Beijing in Chinese “ 十里長(zhǎng)街 ” and “ten dream, changed their lives and put their survival under threat. Under such circumstances, human conditions changed drastically. The original integral self is presented as fragmented and insecure. In general, Americans believe in tradition values and emphasize the importance of pressure on family life. “Qinhuai ” in Nanking in Chinese “ 十里秦淮 ” , “ 十里洋場(chǎng) ” that is “ten foreign markets” in Shanghai as so on. It can be seen that Chinese people love number “ten”. In addition, most Chinese love the auspicious numerals and are familiar with their relative things in ordinary life. Hence, there are some idioms related with numerals as well as Buddha temples, the monks etc., for example, in Chinese “一個(gè)和尚挑水吃, 兩個(gè)和尚抬水吃, 三個(gè)和尚沒水吃” that is “one boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boys.” in English, and “做一天和尚撞一天鐘” that is “a day monk bump a day clock.” in English(Zeng Yufang , 2008).In a nutshell, both western culture and Chinese culture have been profound influence by their own religions, so does the numeral languages. Also, Chinese culture