中西婚礼差异英文版.pdf

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long historical evolution of the marriage
custom in a nation. It is the regularity of the activities that
restrains people's awareness of marriage and marriage. Marriage
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custom’s binding does not depend on the law, and it can not rely
on science tests neither, but on the force of habit, traditional
culture and national psychology. During the development of human
history, the institution of marriage and family system has
experienced different processes of development. Human have
experienced group marriage, the dual system of marriage and
individual marriage system (monogamy).
As a union of a man and a woman and a family formation stage,
marriage includes not only marriage, but also the preparation
phase for the marriage and the performance stage after the
festivities. It runs through the whole process of life. These
customs, as a national symbol and cultural development, plays
a very important role in ethnic studies and the history of mankind.
China is a country with an ancient civilization and a long history,
and many customs. Among so many customs, there is a particular
marriage custom. This custom goes through various and long stages
of development from ancient simple wedding ceremony to later
complex ceremony, from feudal marriage custom to the modern free
marriage custom. During these courses, people’s ideas are
progressing, though we can not say that their ideas are up to
the top of mankind’s ideas in all over the world at all over
the time because there are still backward ideas existing in many
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places, in many people’s mind and they maybe will still exist
for a long time. However, they are up to the opt of mankind’s
ideas in a certain stage of the uni