【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 od It is easy to make the materials just be shown together and make the study more boring and dull. At this point, I also fell difficulty though I had learnt the way of Hu Wenzhong’s culture study by parison and definition. by which may leads the context invaluable. Otherwise, how to organize the materials and where to put the detailed information is not easy for this paper. So there are some defects and shortings are inevitable. At the same time I also do as possible as I can to make this thesis more reasonable. 4．The image of dog in Chinese and western culture Phrases and expressions about dog in Chinese vocabularyIt is known that words or phrases always can reflect the certain culture of a nation. In other words, it is the thought of people and their attitude to what they know, what they meet, they think and treat. Of course in people’s mind, everything disgraceful must have something with dog and these expressions are made naturally, just as following expressions: 狗膽包天，Someone who is monstrous ，Shamelessly to seek personal gain. 狗急跳墻，A cornered beast will do something desperate. 狗拿耗子，多管閑事。A dog trying to catch mice。 too meddlesome。 poke one’s nose into other people’s ，quack medicine。狗屁，Horseshit, ，A person who offers bad advice。 inept adviser。 villainous ，hired thug, ，A wretched sequel to a fine ，Pour out a flood of invective against ，be damned snobbish, act like a ，dogeatdog, dog ，Snarl and snap at lv Dongbing。 mistake a good man for a bed ，Like a dog threatening people on the strength of its master’s ，worse than a cur or a ，A dog’s mouth emits no ivory。 a filthy mouth can’t utter4 decent language。 what can you expect from a dog but ，son of a bitch. 狗官，irresponsible official狗男女，a married man has adultery with other man’s wife. 狗坐轎子不識抬舉，A dog sitting in a sedan chair unable to appreciate a favor. 肉包子打狗有去無回。A meat bun thrown at a dog by no means retrievable. [9], 《歇后語100》。In Chinese culture, describing or blaming a bad thing or a person, above all abnormal one, the first what people think of is dog, as if people cannot express their detest and reject or scorn and disdain without mentioning dog, which reflects a image of dog in Chinese people’s mind. So the dog in China stands for a bad person or bad thing, evil and mean image. Besides, they are all derogatory term, but people think that belittle or depreciate a dog is natural and acceptable even reasonable. Han nationality＇s appraisals to dog are contradictory. For one thing, dog is respectable and loyal。 for another thing, dog is humble and obsequious. The majority of these appraisals are derogatory. The image of dog in Chinese cultureChinese people always think dog as a terrible animal which is inferior to others. So in Chinese culture, dog always stands for a bad image a good for nothing but barking too much. The most important is what dog is cruel to strangers before his master. People are tired of dog and maltreat this animal generation after generation. Why people hate dog so much? There are some reasons.First, A dog is cruel to strange people while obedient to his master. This is a truth that dog always makes troubles to someone he does not know. Maybe that is his nature that whenever a stranger appear around his master’s house he always wants to keep the person away and always thinks the stranger may does harm to his master’s family such as thief, robbery and intentional destroy. For himself, he always tries his best to protect his master’s everything from being approaching and touching. So sometimes he threatens or warns the stranger, sometimes even bites fiercely. Meanwhile, a dog often attaches to his master faithfully and does whatever his master wants him to do no matter when and where. Second, a dog is always barking too much. In his opinion, making everything clear to his master is his duty or responsibility. Of course this also a main reason why people like keeping dog for watching houses. At night, if he can hear any noise, he may bark loudly for a long time. And a dog in China is always sitting or lying in the front of his master’s house, so a dog often keeps barking in order to remind his master of something bad or gives the warning to make his enemies dare not close to the house. And at this moment his loud barking always makes people feel boring and annoying. Third, dog likes making love everywhere. Other animals always do as dogs but unfortunately only dog because the typical disgraceful one. In spring, this is the special season for most animals, including dogs. At the time a dog is easy in heat, looking for his mates for sexual intercourse in heat period. When they do that, they don’t care of humans and just do it everywhere, most of time on the road or around houses. For animals, that is natural and necessary, but for human being, they think, they think a dog is always likes mating. However, when other animals do that, people always can tolerate. Last, dog likes eating dirty food even human’s waste. Instead, the move es at a time when the popularity of dogs as pets is soaring in China — the result of higher ines, greater personal freedom and changes in family structure. But despite this newfound popularity, dogs in China remain caught