【正文】 kinds of color words in mon in two are red/紅 ,yellow/黃 ,white/白 ,green/綠 ,blue/藍(lán) ,purple/紫 ,brown/棕 ,black/黑 and gray/灰 ,but in those color words ,“brown”is used rarely and cannot express some cultural connotation meaning in a result,we will just discuss six color words which is seen in our daily life in this chapter from its metaphorical meaning,associative meaning,emotional meaning or other extended meanings,which influences on cultural connotation in English and Chinese. Contrast of Cultural Connotations of English and Chinese Basic Color Words ―red‖和“紅色” The red color term expressed in Chinese ancient is mainly “chi”(赤 ),“zhu”(朱） ,“dan”(丹 ) and “hong”(紅 ).When mentioned “hong”（紅） ,people often think of happiness,auspicious,prosperity,lucky and warm etc.“Hong”（ 紅 ） color is also often linked to ward off evil spirits and drive the epidemic disease in Chinese traditional custom. Many official affairs and government activities in Chinese ancient had a close relationship with the “hong”（紅 ） the past ,the emperor read over paper with “ zhushahong” (朱砂紅 ).The officials named of “zhupi” (朱批 )at that time,which refers to the paper written by the emperor in “ zhusha” (朱砂 ). “ Hong” (紅 )color is a kind of warm and fire,which make people more exciting easily. When opening a business or anniversary,the businessmen always decorates their shop with happiness an wild peoplel send their blessing words of “ honghonghuohuo”(紅紅火火 ),“ xingwangfada” (興旺發(fā)達(dá) )at the same ,“hong”(紅 )color can express symbolic sense of revolution in Chinese instance“,hongsegeming” (紅色革命），“ hongsezhengquan” (紅色政權(quán) )and so on . In western countries,red mainly refers to the color of blood,once the blood loss,the flower of life will ,“red”is a kind of derogatory color in most cases in instance,“in the red” (虧損 ),“ redtape” (官僚作風(fēng) ),“ redneck” (鄉(xiāng)巴佬 ),“ red light district” (紅燈區(qū) )and so on. In addition,red also contains the meaning of instance,“redletter days”refers to holidays,such days are printed in red on their calendars,rather than in black for ordinary day. ―yellow‖和 ―黃色 ‖ 13 In Chinese traditional culture, “huang” (黃 )is the color of kings as a “statue of color in ancient times”.The ancient emperors are riding in the car called “huangwu” (黃屋 ),the emperor authorized the proclamation as “huangbang” (黃 榜 ).Besides, “ huangpao” (黃袍 ) only wear by the legend of the Pegasus is also “ huang” (黃 ) color,The idiom “feihuangtengda” (飛黃騰達(dá) ) analogies the aspiration and official position that promotes very quickly. “ Huang” (黃 ) also have lower symbolic significance,which es from other countries and the meanings were the symbols of corruption and as “ huangseyoutong ” ( 黃 色 幼 童 ), “ huangsekanwu ” ( 黃 色 刊 物 ), “ huangsexiaoshuo” (黃色小說(shuō) ). In western, people often associate“yellow”with wealth,power and honor,because “ yellow”is the color of the sun and we all know that Jesus also used yellow holy cup in the last it can be seen that there is no wonder people see the color “yellow”as holiness In English culture, “yellow” is also has the associative meaning of suspicion,melancholy,morbid, as “ yellowdog” ( 卑劣的 人 ), “ yellowlivered” (膽小的 ), “ yellow looks(陰沉多疑的神色 ) and so on. “Yellow” also refers to newspapers and book without taste and value in as “ yellow press” (黃色報(bào)刊 ), “yellow journalism” (黃色新聞 ), “ yellow back” (廉價(jià)轟動(dòng)一時(shí)的小說(shuō) ). ―white‖和 ―白 色 ‖ In China, “ bai” (白 ) is often linked to omen and funeral one?s relative died,family want to put on a white mourning hall to express sadness for them. “Bai”(白 ) was alluded to as civilians color。however,British symbol of royalty and nobility is blue .the reason why two nationalities are in their choice of yellow and blue as their worship color is that two nationalities live in the different geographical environment and cultural traditions. The living environment for Chinese nation is the land environment,which leads to the formation of the land of civilization. The worship of the Chinese nation to yellow is the specific performance for the yellow land. From the natural environment, blue is the color of the sea, English is different from the Han nationality,whose ancestors lived on the environment in which they lives is seagirt insularity and the western trade, 16 conquest and exploration are closely linked with the sea for thousands of years. Therefore,their civilization is the ocean civilization which acts in cooperation with the land civilization and blue color of the sea became an object of is the reason why American people use blue color to symbolize the monarchy and the example, “ blue blood refers to the person who has royal blood” and “blue book means the official report republished by the royal government”. Thus it can be seen that blue color for the English nation likes as yellow for the Chinese people,representing the color of their life and a result, it is not difficult for us to understand why the two nations chosen of yellow and blue as their advocate color. Differences in religious belief Religious belief has an extensive and profound influence on the social nations have different religious belief,which leads to their different country is mainly affected by the Taoism,which has the five elements idea of “yin” and “yang” that indicates the universe posed by the “gold” ,“wood” ,“water”, “fire”, and “earth”and the color of “green”, “red”, “yellow”, “white”,and “black”matches with the five is a symbol of wood,representing the East。and yellow is a symbol of earth,locating in the ,our ancestors look yellow as the central color and yellow earth as the central the color of yellow in Chinese became a symbol of nobility. In western culture, Christian culture has a very profound influence on the color and they advocated white their view, white symbolized purity,happiness,beauty and kindness