【正文】 r made of shum. As a legend has it, one winter he put cultivated shum seeds in a hollow. The following spring he noticed a strong smell ing from it and was amazed to discover that the shum he left there had fermented. This accidental discovery inspired Du Kang to create an alcoholic beverage. And with no doubt, he succeeded. The liquid he invented was so popular that Du Kang became the pronoun of the wine and was remembered by people until now. The origins of the Western Wine Different from Chinese origin of wine, the West has no clear records in its history. It was said that an ancient Persian king sealed the remnant grapes in the barrel and labeled the word ??poison” to prevent others from eating them. There was a concubine disfavored by the king and lived painfully opportunely to see the poison barrel and wanted to kill herself at that time. She opened it and drank for a few mouths. She didn?t feel painful but a sense of intoxication and giddy when she was waiting to die before she fell asleep. When she awoke, she found the stresses that had made her life intolerable had dispersed. Returning to the source of her relief, her subsequent conduct changed so remarkably that she told the king the matter .A test is unavoidable but the concubine regained the King39。本文通過比較中西方酒的源頭，釀酒原料與酒品的差異，酒文化核心的差異，酒的交際功能等方面的不同來分析和比較中西方酒文化差異，從而進一步闡述中西方文化差異，特別是價值觀方面的差異。 酒文化源遠流長，品種繁多，是一個國家歷史發(fā)展和文化沉淀過程中不可缺少的一環(huán)。 內(nèi)蒙古財經(jīng) 大學 本科 畢業(yè) 論文 中西酒文化對比 作 者 系 別 外 國語學院 專 業(yè) 商務英語 年 級 08 級 學 號 指導教師 導師職稱 副教授 最終成績 Foreign Languages College Inner Mongolia Finance and Economics University Comparison of the Wine Culture between China and the West Feng Xueyao A thesis submitted to Foreign Languages College of Inner Mongolia Finance and Economics University In fulltime fulfillment of the requirement For the degree of Bachelor of Arts May 2021 Hohhot, China 摘要 酒是人類生活中的主要飲料之一。在人類文化的歷史長河中，它不僅 是一種客觀的物質(zhì)存在， 而且 是一種文化象征，即酒神精神的象征 。中西方文化價值觀存在著根本性的差異，酒文化也是一樣。 關鍵詞： 中國，西方，酒文化，比較 Abstract The wine is one of the major beverages in people’s daily life. In the long history of human culture, it is not only an objective physical existence but also a cultural symbol. That is the symbol of wine culture. Wine culture is long standing and well established. Wine culture is one of the irreplaceable parts of a country’s historic development and cultural sediment. Chinese and western values are basically different, and so is the wine culture. Through paring the origin and the material and category of winemaking, drinking customs, the municative functions and drinking culture between China and the West, this paper studies the differences between Chinese wine culture and the Western wine culture. Thus further to pare the difference between China and the western culture, especially the value. Key Words: China, the west, wine culture, parison Acknowledgements I am gladly to take this opportunity to express my thanks to my tutorMiss Wang Ying, who offers me academic advices on posing this paper. Her patient help and timely encouragement are worthy of high acknowledgement. On the process of posing the paper, she also played an important role in indicating a bright road in my future writing. And I also would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Zhao Guodong, who once gave some classes about how to write a paper. At the same time, I would like to thank all the leaders and teachers of the Foreign Languages Collage. I do need to thank my classmates who spend their time in reading my paper and give me their advices. Table of Contents 摘要 ................................................................................................................................ i Abstract..........................................................................................................................ii Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………...iii Table of Contents..........................................................................................................iv Part I Introduction..........................................................................................................1 Part II Origins of Chinese Wine and the Western Wine.................................................2 The Origins of Chinese Wine.........................................................................2 The Origins of the Western Wine...................................................................2 Part III Material and Category for Winemaking...........................................................3 The Materials and Categories of Chinese Wine...............................................4 The Yellow Liquor……………………………………………………. 4 White Liquor…… ………………………………………………... 4 The Materials and Categories of Western Wine...............................................5 Whisky………………………………………………………………... 6 Brandy………………………………………………………………... 6 Lyme Wine (Rum)…………… ………………………………………. 6 Part IV. The Core of Wine Culture……………………………………………………. 6 The Different Preferences of Wine between China and the West …………… 7 . Different WineDrinking Customs between China and the West… ................7 Chinese WineDrinking Customs……………………………………… 8 Western WineDrinking Customs……………………………………… 8 . Different Drinking Vessels between China and the West…………………… 9 . Different Communicative Functions and Drinking Culture……………… ..10 Lyricism and Enjoyment………… …… …………….. ..