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1、中西方禁忌(TaboosbetweenChinaandWesterncountries)Tabooisauniversalculturalphenomenoninhumansociety,whichregulatespeople'sspeechactandsocialcommunication.Aroundtheworld,thereare"Customs"whichrequireextremeattentionandarepunishediftheydonotpayattentiontoacertaintaboo.Cancausemisunderstanding,orsuffer
2、fataldisaster.MagellanwaskilledbyaboriginesonthePhilippinesislandsbecauseofthetabooshemadeagainstthenatives.Withtheprogressanddevelopmentofsociety,taboocustomshaveprecipitatedrichculturalconnotations.Thequantityisnotreducedbutincreasedinaway.Italsohasdistinctiveculturalcharacteristicsandstrong
3、characteristicsofthetimes.Therefore,ininterculturalcommunicationinChineseandwesternpersonalitycharacteristicsandmaintaboos,andtounderstandandstudythetabootaboocustomcanreducecross-culturalcommunicationmayleadtomisunderstandingandfriction,ensuringinternationalcommunicationsmoothly.Atabooandtabo
4、ocustomsoftabooisacomplicatedsocialphenomenon,Englishwordis"taboo"("Tabou,towerofterror"),said"no"or"suppression",whichoriginatedfromtheSouthPacificPolynesiandialectTongapeople,theoriginalmeaningis"sacred""beviolated".In1777,thetaboophrasewasfirstdiscoveredbytheEnglishnavigatorCook(JamesCook)a
5、ndintroducedintoenglish.ThereisataboointheearlyHanDynastyinChinarecorded:"andtoholddetainees,andtaboos,mudindecimal,andanyghostssheren."Tabooisauniversalculturalphenomenoninhumansociety,whichregulatespeople'sspeechactandsocialcommunication.Aroundtheworld,thereare"Customs"whichrequireextremeatt
6、entionandarepunishediftheydonotpayattentiontoacertaintaboo.Cancausemisunderstanding,orsufferfataldisaster.MagellanwaskilledbyaboriginesonthePhilippinesislandsbecauseofthetabooshemadeagainstthenatives.Withtheprogressanddevelopmentofsociety,taboocustomshaveprecipitatedrichculturalconnotations.Th
7、equantityisnotreducedbutincreasedinaway.Italsohasdistinctiveculturalcharacteristicsandstrongcharacteristicsofthetimes.Therefore,ininterculturalcommunicationinChineseandwesternpersonalitycharacteristicsandmaintaboos,andtounderstandandstu