【正文】 case that English and Chinese people live in an absolutely different natural environment and social cultural origins, Chinese people have strong psychology of symmetry, doubleness, association and analogy, pursuing goodness and avoiding badness. It is natural that people are fully aware of usage of homophony. Compared with other languages all over the world, Chinese language has a great number of cultures of homophony and partial meaning. For example, the number 8(八 ,ba) sounds like 發(fā) (fa)in Chinese, then 8 bees a popular number nowadays. People hope that all the substance they owned can be related to number 8, such as phone number, house number, license number and so on. One more example, the number 5, is similar to 吾 (I)。 of course, number 58 means 吾發(fā) (making fortune), the number 9,(久 , longlasting)means permanent, which is still a popular number. The reason why those numbers bee lucky number is that their pronunciation is similar to mendatory words. At the same time, a few numbers are considered as taboo numbers because of bad homophony. Especially the number 4(four,四 ,si). It is avoided because it sounds like “die”( 死 ,si) and it is the most worst number in the public minds. As a result, some people go so far as to call the fourth floor of a building 3A because the pronunciation of the “fourth floor”( 四樓 ,si lou) is identical with 死樓 . As a mater of fact, a few of nations in western countries show great respect for number 4, which stands for fair, justice and power. In contrast, the number “eight” (8) is an ordinary and lucky number in both English and Chinese cultures, not its homophony but its structure. It gives us a meaning imagination. People consider that the number 8 is bined by double 0(zero), which is not only a sign of special meaning, but also a stable and harmonious sign. B. The Close Association with Mythology and Religion Mythology is a body of myth, especially those relating to a people’s gods and heroes and to their origins or those connected with certain subject. 6 Myths connect with numbers in both Chinese and English cultures. It can be seem that mythology offers cultural origins of a nation. Mythology strongly influences cultural development and cultural connotations of numbers. In Chinese culture, the connotations of numbers have close connection with Chinese ancient myths. Chinese gods are often described as the embodiment of supreme reign far from human beings, or the symbols of allrounder and virtues. In opposite, Western Mythology, originating from Greek mythology, gods have similar characters of human beings. They filled with feelings, love, anger and hatred. Great cultural diversities exist in ancient mythical connotation in china and western countries, which reflect Sino– western nation’s profound diversities on character and decide the trend of development of two cultural systems pletely. Those diversities still reflect in aspects of Culture of Number. In Sinowestern cultures, the number 7 possesses mysterious colors. Christianity culture is one main stream of western culture, in which figure 7 was a mysterious but power number at the beginning, says the Bible, god spent six days in creating the heaven and earth even human being. Until the 7th day, God had to rest. Therefore, the day was called Sabbath. Similarly, in Chinese ancient mythology and books, a large number of aspects refer to number seven. July(qi yue,七月 ) was used to express a circle, says the Yijing (Book of Change,易經(jīng) ), a ancient book. Dating from the Qin dynasty, some ancient books recorded that July always meant limit of many great events, such as 七日不火食。 American idiom “twenty three”( 滾開(kāi) )。 Similarly, in china, the smaller the license number is the higher the official title of car owner is. What caused the phenomenon? The reason is that social and historical reasons caused dissimilation for license number. Another case in point .people usually use these phrases, such as 略知一二，說(shuō)不出個(gè)一二三來(lái) ,in which 一二，一二三 are used to instead of objective conditions or reasons. What′s more, we use 250( 二百五 in Chinese) to refer to those who are somewhat foolish or stupid as in 你別二百五了。 while a nation abstain from other numbers expressing the meaning of bad luck. All in all, culture reasons cause people different opinions on numbers. Ⅲ.The Comparison of Numeral Culture in Chinese and Western Cultures A. Lucky Culture of Numbers in China and English Speaking Countries 1. The Same Lucky Numbers Worshipped by Chinese and Westerners It is known to all that people prefer to number 3 and 8 not only in china, but also in most western countries. The number “three” and “eight” are considered to be the symbol of holy, dignity and luck. Both of them express in different forms because of different cultural traditions and religion faiths. Three is a very lucky number in China. At first, in Chinese , 3 is written in the form of 三 . The upper horizontal stroke stands for heaven, the down one stands for the earth and the middle one stands for humankind. Three horizontal strokes express the relationship among heaven、 earth and humankind. The concept of Shanqing(三清 ) appears in Chinese Taoism, they are 玉清 ,上清 ,太清 individually. In Buddhism, they are heaven, earth and people. In “Lao tzu”, Lao tzu expressed that one gives birth to two, two, to three, and three, to everything on the earth. Ancient people thought number starts 1, ends 10, and finally3. From the point of it, people impart a great meaning to 3 in Chinese culture. Meanwhile , 3 is relevant to most important thought and beliefs, such as three celestial bodies consists of sun, moon, and stars。 It is said that people’s life consisted of previous life, present life and future life。 Three seats are posed of Confucian, Taoism and Buddhism and so on. In folk legend, there are a great deal of i