【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 hen take part in foreigner’s funeral the last step of human’s life journey, funeral ceremony has its different status and meanings in each search these differences through searching the different customs of funeral paring these differences and their roots, people can understand the senses of worth and the cultural backgrounds of people in different will help us to avoid misunderstanding in crossingcultural munication.第二篇：中西方葬禮文化差異Funeral Cultural Differences between East and WestI will talk about the funeral cultural difference between Chinese and life is a trip, funeral is the end of the long for people who believe in reincarnation does not mean the end of life, but the conversion of other is to put the soul of the deceased to the funeral ceremony refers to the etiquette of living deal with the deceased, and it is considered the last step of one’s whole Chinese people, death means the emancipation from people die in the house peacefully, when he/she is extremely old, we call his/her funeral ‘white occasion’.As a very admirable way of death that one’s life ends at home without pain and disease is people’s longcherished wish of lifetime and it’s also the glory of the preparation is ready shroud, coffin and for the China it’s very important and is a lot of custom taboos in this he shroud is generally made from will like his/her shroud made by fur or silk, because Chinese believe that furs can make people into animals in the other is not used to make shroud for it’s Chinese pronunciation ‘duan’ which means bad for the death’s coffin is divided into different grades according to the hardness of the timber, the harder the prerequisite for the implementation of the funeral, obviously, we must determine the person is China, people will cotton on the person’s nostrils to test whether or not people t is named a fine cotton in The Book of fine cotton is much accurate than directly testing by hand and show respect for the relatives were sure the person had been dead, everyone started means starting the funeral some place of China, especially in rural, people always open the roof tiles to wish the death go the central plains region, it is bathed in his put shroud on for him before he civil funeral have “停靈”customs ,continued for three days, five days or seven days, it shows relatives look forward to the resurrection of the deceased, set aside enough time to the escape soul can return to when there is physical funeral rituals and customs are essentially religious funeralpeopleadvocate “individualbased” and “individualcentered”, so people focus on resettlement of the deceased “soul” at the of repentance to is also o hospice, so that the dying people will get correct view of the death of the deceased, and get out of the fear of death, under the auspices of Father give the deceased corpse washing, dressing, religious meaning of his sins are washed away, clean see God after the priest want to cemeteries are generally located on hillsides since this is thought to improve Fengshui(geomantic omen).The higher a grave is located, the the graveside, when the coffin is taken down from the hearse and lowered into the ground, all present must turn members and other relatives throw a handful of earth into the grave before it is the funeral, all of clothes worn by the mourners are burned to avoid had luck associated with the coffin is buried, the keepe