【正文】 ficance of “no pollution”, “environmental protection”,and “l(fā)vse”(綠色 ) has also became the pronoun of “no pollution” , “environmental protection” around the also appears a series of “green” words that can reflect Chinese people?s awareness of environmental protection in Chinese,such as “l(fā)vsenengyuan”(綠色能源 ), “l(fā)vseshipin”( 綠 色食 品 ), “l(fā)vsexiaofei”( 綠色 消 費 ), “l(fā)vseshucai”( 綠 色蔬 菜 ), “l(fā)vseshuiguo”(綠色水果 ), “l(fā)vseaoyun”(綠色奧運 ), “l(fā)vseshenghuo”(綠色生活 ) and so , “l(fā)v”(綠 )color can express the associative meaning of humbleness or bad reputation,for example,we often say someone in “Lengtouqing”,which means that someone does things without brain or lacking of consideration. Meanwhile, “l(fā)vmaozi” often describes a bad reputation for a man. In English, the basic meaning of “green” also refers to the lush vegetation color, which is on behalf of “peace”, “youth”. such as:“green revolution”(綠色革命 ), “green hope”(綠色希望 ), “green power”(綠色能量 ) etc. Sometimes, the color of “green” is a sign of passing. “Green light” is too familiar for us all in our daily we see the “green light” ,we know it?s a symbol of starting or used in our roads to guide the cars or passerby to be allowed to pass the way Owing to the mean of “green” is the color of grass and spring originally,which is usually related to inexperience, instance “The worker is extremely green in his work field”.We call such inexperience man as “green hand” or “green horn”. Causes of Dissimilarities of Cultural Connotations of English and Chinese Basic Color Words Analysis of the causes of the cultural connotation differences Language is the most important munication tool for human beings and it is the form and a carrier of national is to say,language is a part of culture and they constrain each is the base of language,however, color words bee a very active part of basic color words in English and Chinese have different cultural connotations,which is due to the differences of living environment, religious belief and customs between English and ,it is entirely different for people to describe the feeling, understanding, expression and use for different color,showing the distinct features of national culture and its own unique cultural connotation. Differences from natural environment As is known to us all,Chinese use “yellow”as the symbol of royalty and nobility 。however,British symbol of royalty and nobility is blue .the reason why two nationalities are in their choice of yellow and blue as their worship color is that two nationalities live in the different geographical environment and cultural traditions. The living environment for Chinese nation is the land environment,which leads to the formation of the land of civilization. The worship of the Chinese nation to yellow is the specific performance for the yellow land. From the natural environment, blue is the color of the sea, English is different from the Han nationality,whose ancestors lived on the environment in which they lives is seagirt insularity and the western trade, 16 conquest and exploration are closely linked with the sea for thousands of years. Therefore,their civilization is the ocean civilization which acts in cooperation with the land civilization and blue color of the sea became an object of is the reason why American people use blue color to symbolize the monarchy and the example, “ blue blood refers to the person who has royal blood” and “blue book means the official report republished by the royal government”. Thus it can be seen that blue color for the English nation likes as yellow for the Chinese people,representing the color of their life and a result, it is not difficult for us to understand why the two nations chosen of yellow and blue as their advocate color. Differences in religious belief Religious belief has an extensive and profound influence on the social nations have different religious belief,which leads to their different country is mainly affected by the Taoism,which has the five elements idea of “yin” and “yang” that indicates the universe posed by the “gold” ,“wood” ,“water”, “fire”, and “earth”and the color of “green”, “red”, “yellow”, “white”,and “black”matches with the five is a symbol of wood,representing the East。red is a symbol of fire,representing the South。white is a symbol of gold, representing the West。black is a symbol of water,representing the North。and yellow is a symbol of earth,locating in the ,our ancestors look yellow as the central color and yellow earth as the central the color of yellow in Chinese became a symbol of nobility. In western culture, Christian culture has a very profound influence on the color and they advocated white their view, white symbolized purity,happiness,beauty and kindness 。so the main color in their wedding is white and called white “Bible”, the angel always has a a pair of sworn wings,suspending with white white silvery halo over her head. “Yellow” in English often refers to the fear and envy,which is connected to the western religious the story of “Bible”, Judah betaried Jesus just for 30pieces of silver。 Judah always wore a yellow dress ,then in the eyes of Westerners ,yellow was closely linked to a timid man who betrays friends. From here we see that different religious beliefs created different preferences for color of different nationalities. Differences in historical culture The development of history also affects the cultural connotation of color history and culture not only formed the unique characteristics of the cultural psychology in different nations, but also brought the different preferences for color of different example, red is the color of the East and the source of life,and corresponding with that ,white is the color of the West or the end of Chinese history, the death was also called “die” or “go west”。the funeral was c