A Comparison Between Chinese And English Tea Culture And The Application In The Intercultural Communication

With the continuous improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength, exchanges between China and the world’s increasingly close, China’s traditional culture much attention. Tea culture as a Chinese traditional culture, not only has been widely used in large-scale events such as dinner guests, but also in each of us could see the shadow of the nuclear family in the tea. Chinese, English tea culture as an important part of the world tea culture has its similarities, but different cultural background, but also exhibit different characteristics. The Chinese, English tea culture to do a systematic analysis to identify the causes of conflicts caused by communication, and resolved to avoid conflicts in intercultural communication, promoting better cultural exchange between China and Britain.In this paper, comparative study of British tea culture as the main content is divided into five parts.The first chapter discusses the origin and significance of research topics, content and methods of current research topics and research.The second chapter of the British tea culture contrast, this chapter from tea and brewing method, tea activities, these three aspects of the tea ceremony spiritual contrast between British tea culture.Chapter III of the reasons the British tea-cultural communication conflicts, this chapter is divided into two sections cultural background and ideas(values). Different development concept and now China and the United Kingdom created a very different culture, different ideas of the Chinese people and the British, Chinese people pay more attention to the interests of the collective, but in the minds of the British, they are more emphasized is the leading personal core interests spirit.Chapter Four British Tea Culture in Intercultural Communication for British tea culture-related aspects of the application of this research in cross-cultural communication is less, this section is divided into the communicative activities in the application of the method in drinking applications as well as applications in the language communication, and reveals the comparative study of the cultural significance of British tea in intercultural communication applications.Chapter V Conclusion, a summary of the contents of the first few chapters.