Abstract
With the development of society and exchanges between China and the West, people have paid more and more attention to the cultural difference. As a prop both link history and to the future, wine is not only an objective physical, but also a culture. Wine culture exists after the birth of wine. It has been paying an important role in people’s social life, so there are many researches on wine culture in China and Western countries. These researchers can be summed up in two aspects, its material culture and spiritual culture, such as the study of drinking vessels, the types of wine and the drinking customs. The Western countries’ studies also concentrated in these two aspects, like the origin of wine and table manners. In order to reduce the cultural differences between Chinese and Western social activities and promote the development, this paper analyzes wine culture on the basis of the previous researches through Chinese and Western social activities, which is by contrast with the types of wine, the drinking vessels, etiquette of drinking and the purpose of drinking in China and West. Moreover, this paper discusses the functions of wine in social activities and suggests that deeper understanding of wine culture in China and Western countries can promote international communication and the harmonious development of world.
Key Words: exchanges between east and west social activities wine culture
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