【正文】 thy 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。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。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 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 day. Compared with their new way is much more romantic, in late December 31, regional people poured into the streets, grand carnival night, came close to zero, hundreds of thousands of people gather in prayer, together, sincerely for the arrival of the New Year countdown. When the clock strikes twelve, suddenly, the beautiful music played ball, luxuriant, people celebrate burning visible, Spring Festival and New Year Spring Festival, with strong special: the traditional flavor and unique charm, New Year time, reflect the breath and trend of modern life feeling, closer. In China, Spring Festival is Spring Festival, the important time of the year before from han Chinese, instead of the first day of the lunar year, gradually from the early Spring Festival food dish, the merchant, TuSuJiu, to later year, rice dumplings, variety. The ancients believed that year, the date of spring is a start, and then start, on the day he had advised people farming custom. All five nights leakage, tsing capital, both her clothes down to official county sheriff countries to serve food fights are green, green pennant performance, in TuNiu tillage outside, show signs among the people. Farming need strong body and so on food with the corresponding food. The earliest consists of five kinds of vegetables spicy stimulation XinPan namely spring plate and five TuSuJiu, purpose is strong body and farming. With the passage of time, the significance of farming festival advised people, and the strong hope, and further strengthened hope New Year filled with happy auspicious, and then the emergence of a new festival food, such as the symbol of happiness symbol, business year reunion of rice and moral developed linfe, jixiangruyi dumplings, etc. This Spring Festival of Chinese food is of a happy life with prayer and yearning.Spring Festival is called and, because in the lunar year when, say again old. The ancient year, and old and the calendar and agricultural production. Han wu? Of load: too early before the first year (in),... to 104 the shang dynasty. XiaLi in year to year in December, zhou for XiaLi October for year. Again, year means that the mature grain. The oracle in word is fruit harvest image, the in the word cogwheel is mature. The spread of XuanGong? GuLiang sixteen years, great, big grain for years. Visible, nian was originally wish bumper festive days, one after beginning, fresh. Specifically, the Spring Festival eve includes and new two parts, the night before the New Year39。 general Gregorian calendar quarter began in fasting, feast for three days before. The custom is mainly held feasts and recreational activities. Initially, the church regulations prohibit predators during fasting and entertainment, Christians will spontaneously in fasting before the start of the banquet hosted various entertainment, announced temporary farewell, called x meat. Thanks, farewell, farewell to the upright. Because people can enjoy in feasts, so it is also called the carnival activities for carnival activity. To the 15th century, Pope John Paul ii ordered in three days before the fasting celebrations. Since then, as a carnival holidays were officially confirmed, and gradually in British countries and he spread. Nowadays, the carnival has bee the world many countries and peoples indispensable cinemagoers. Because the origin and the church parade during fasting meat and entertainment rules ban is closely related with February, e, celebrate their custom, so meat and entertainment from two aspects. But for most countries, the custom is plementary, diet, entertainment, and with the passage of time, religious and secular celebration increasingly desalts color. As in the Italian city of Venice, people not only at home, and drinking song in fancy clothes, face wore a mask or with all sorts of color, stilts into the streets, and festivals. Iraq is specially made many cakes and supply some masks customers