【正文】 s superstitious taboo also have its certain cultural roots ,and in the role of the biggest is religious. The Number Taboos Number Taboos in Western CultureLanguage is the carrier of , as a part of the language form, of course accumulates rich cultural information. In the ancient tradition, number has the divine meaning, have the religious color of dominating the good or ill luck. But to the number, different nationality have different options and different preferences, it has a profound national cultural cachet.As is known to all, for most westerners number 13 is absolutely an unlucky number. For example, in the west, house address would never in 13 number. In the national lottery, people never printed 13 number. Whether domestic or international flights, the plane seats have not row 13. In the cinema, it also have no number 13 row 13. Many skyscrapers, dweller building and apartment’s floor build from 12th floor direct to 14th floor,and no 13th floor. If developers want to sell out 13 th floor successfully, they have to change it to 12B or 12 layer and a half. And the fear of number 13 to many people has affected their daily life. When they go out in the 13th day in a mouth,they won’t take a car or a plane. Because they think that that time go out is likely to meet disaster. And if that 13th day is just the Friday, that is more an unlucky day, people will be afraid in the ceiling on the disastrous event. In that way , where is the taboo of number e from? That is related to the religion legends in western countries. It is said that before the era of Jesus that was Scandinavia Era. One night, 12 gods was invited to the god of the scourge and disputes attended the dinner without authorization so that the total number changed to fighting happened. The god39。t want to do anything or participate in some activity or refuse to other people39。m younger than you.American women blushed with shame and smiledjust call my aunt. I like it.Why American woman feel embarrassed in such occasion? Because when treating on age ,Chinese people and American people have different attitude.For most English and American, it’s inappropriate to ask about the strange or not familiar person with their age. In addition,it’s impolite to enquire others’ ine, marriage, political affiliation and religious belief.Therefore, when talking to foreigners, people should avoid asking the following questions, though the Chinese people don39。 origin of taboo。本文涉及的禁忌有姓名、稱呼、性別、種族、宗教、迷信等和我們生活息息相關(guān)的方面，旨在能通過對(duì)這些方面的了解與研究能幫助讀者在交流的時(shí)候不會(huì)觸及對(duì)方的禁忌而感到尷尬甚至影響雙方的關(guān)系。s your religion? Are you Catholic? Western people attach importance to privacy, so they don39。 Malice, ghostly, conspiracy, etc.In recent decades, China39。 Blue is the blue ribbon tying on bride’s wrest ,which is a symbol of loyalty to her love. It is said that this will bring good luck to the bride. And in China, relatives and friends sending gifts to the new couples need to be cautious, because there are some things can39。s words or statement will cause disapproval or criticizen.Racism think, some people are born inferior quality than any other race (see Light and Keller do 1985 published work). Racial discrimination language is to show that some race have bias words. In English, whether intentionally or not, most of this kind of words show racial prejudice toward black people or accidentally will make them unhappy. The abovementioned, white means innocent, pure and clean, charitythese are all positive meaning mendatory word. On the other hand, black is related to evil, sin and dirty , such as: blackguard (villain), blacklist (blacklist), black mark (stain), etc. Family is ashamed of bad boy who is called black sheep instead of white sheep. Nonmalicious lies are called white lie , it is not so bad as ordinary lie (general lies) or black lie (sinister lies) . Some black people plain that even in the semantics, the black word appears ugly and mean. In addition, using nigger, boy words to address the adult black man has obvious means of contempt. Now, except for the racial discrimination view to insult the black deliberately, these words have very few use.However, in the United States, not only black people have epithet but some other countries or the race have epithet. Such as the Italian people are called dagos, the jews are called kikes , the polish are called Polacks, the Chinese are called chinks。 affairs, which is another way of infringing upon others castle.Many Chinese are very unfamiliar to westerners understanding all the concepts of privacy. Chinese also doesn39。t use first names, it will be considered poor upbringing, brusque and unreasonable. The taboo’s inheritance reflected the concept of Han nationality entrenched patriarchal clan.On the contrary, in the English speaking countries, especially in the United States, the famous Declaration of Independence saying All men are created equal. This brought the profound influence to the American society, and this kind of idea accumulates deeply in the cultural psychology of people. Therefore, the United States person can use first names in order to show equal, kind and friendly no matter the honour or the low status, the high or low, the young or the elder, whether at the same level or exist between equals or adults, even between teachers and students. In terms of the name ,the taboos clearly reflect the differences between Chinese and western culture. Taboo in CommunicationIn many languages, cursing and swearing words are taboo as English and Chinese .But it also has to explain: first, some swearing words too vulgar, horrible and restricted by society. Jesus Christ, Holy Mary, Son of a bitch is this kind of words。華中科技大學(xué)文華學(xué)院畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)（論文）題目：中西方文化禁忌The Taboos In Chinese And Western Culture學(xué) 生 姓 名： XXX 學(xué)號(hào)：XXXXXXXXXXX 學(xué) 部 （系）：外語學(xué)部英語系 專 業(yè) 年 級(jí)：XX英語一班 指 導(dǎo) 教 師：XXXX 職稱或?qū)W位：副教授 20