The Contrast Of Wine Culture Between China And France And Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

With the worldwide globalizing, cultural conflicts are inevitable to occur when people from all over the world communicate with each other. Different from the issues of grammars and vocabularies, the cultural issues are rooted in the nations and caused by the deep varieties of different nations. Wine culture plays a significant role in both France and China, thus the deep analysis of the wine would generate an extraordinary influence to the communication between France and China.The research of the wine culture has existed for a long time, while the emphases are varied. This report bases on the cultural level theory, and focuses on the comparison of wine culture between China and France. In this way, the contrast will be targeted, detailed and clear. And from the differences of wine culture, there may generate some inspirations for oversea Chinese teaching, which would benefit to the culture and language exchanging between France and China.This report is divided by four chapters. The first chapter introduces the concept of wine and wine culture and focuses on the significance of this research, as well as the literature review of current wine culture. The second chapter illustrates differences of wine culture between China and France, by comparing the four aspects:the physical wine culture, institutional wine culture, behavioral wine culture and mental wine culture. Then analyzes the fundamental differences between the two countries and how these differences come from. The third chapter draws some inspirations for oversea Chinese teaching, which may helpful to solve the problems during language teaching, and would help foreign students quickly adapt to the exotic life and study better and faster. The final chapter is the conclusion, narrates the insufficient of this report, which would be meaningful in my future study.This dissertation compares the wine culture between China and France, and combines with the oversea Chinese teaching to help foreign students understand Chinese culture better and learn Chinese more efficiently.