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gion ceremonies. Here are seven virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity, Justice, Fortitude, Prudence, and Temperance. Maybe many people hear about the seven Spiritual Works of Mercy and the seven Sacraments. Actually there surely exist the seven Spiritual Works of Mercy and the seven Sacraments in western religion: to convert the sinners, to instruct the ignorant, to counsel those in doubt, to fort those in sorrow, to bear wrong patiently, to five the injurers, to pray for the living and dead, and the seven Sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and Extreme Unction(Ye Shuxian, 1990). Numeral nine is the ultimate ideal of Christianity, which is supposed to represent the human being to do good things in this good Karma and symbolizes the best treatment for human being sins after God. People will be in the heaven only by do the “ten mandments”. At the same time, the numeral “ten” is also a symbol of the “cross”, on which Jesus was crucified. The Typical Numerals in Chinese Religion In the five thousand years development process of cultural history in China, the influence of religions belief is very outstanding。 especially the three major religions 5 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 ” 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 “一個和尚挑水吃 , 兩個和尚抬水吃 , 三個和尚沒水吃 ” 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 , 2021). In a nutshell, both western culture and Chinese culture have been profound 6 influence by their own religions, so does the numeral languages. Also, Chinese culture has been profound influence of Confucianism and Buddhism, Taoism and pay more attention to the harmony of nature, the pursuit of spiritual satisfaction and detached, especially the wellknown theory “ 天人合一 ” that is “man is an integral part of nature” is the core idea for Chinese people, while westerners have strong belief for their sacred religions. The Relationship between Numerals and National Psychology In the ancient time, people think that language is not merely a mon symbol that could bless for them but also have evil magical power, so people would not literally talk about the affairs of those banned phenomenon relating with numerals, otherwise they will suffer catastrophe sooner or later. As an important form of expression of language, numerals have their own souls that to some extent can control the fate of people. Thus, people always tend to use and talk about those lucky numerals to avoid those numeral considered are ominous as much as possible in daily life. So numerals have close relationship with reflecting the culture and people’s psychology of each nation. Numerals and Chinese Psychology It is acknowledged that Chinese always have the pursuit of symmetry, balance, harmony and stability of psychology. As the “Copulative Biography” said “it is easy to create Tajo .Consequently, Tajo born into the Eight Diagrams…… .” ( Wang Hongqi , 2021) Things are from one into two, two into four and four into eight geometric cascade developments. As a result, the even numerals connected with some auspicious cultural concepts in China. Generally speaking, Chinese people aspire that good things should be in pairs and a double blessing has descended upon their houses. Giving a double presents to others show their sincerity in interpersonal munication. From the ordinary’s antithetical couplets on the door to the figures of speech in literary, none 7 of them doesn’t reflect the phenomenon that the Han nationality have a special preference to even numeral “two”. What’s more, the culture of the even numeral “four”, “six”, “eight”, “ten” in China is considered as the lucky numerals that can bring good luck and fortunate. The following examples just can illustrate this case in point. Chinese idioms related with those even numerals to describe things lacking in initiative and overcautious and in the good direction is the “key” people could say in Chinese “ 四平八穩(wěn) ”. In Chinese “ 四通八達(dá) ” is a mendatory word that is used to describe the traffic is very convenient without any traffic difficultie