Abstract:In a world of more convenient means of communication , it is the responsibility of the times for every human being to better understand and appreciate , criticize and drow upon each other’s civilizations of global village in the 21th century . By comparing different interpretations of “yue”(or the moon) in Chinese and western civilizations , this paper will analyze the differences between the two cultures . I wish by using this paper can readers better understand each other and live together in harmony and prosperous . 

The moon is simply a nature object ,but ever since it came to the vison of our Chinese nation , it has become the indispensable part of our civilization , and became the semantide of poets to express certain feelings . As the different environments and mental situations those poets were living in , the image of “yue” has profound meanings and those meanings have already been absorbed in the blood of every Chinese people . In the west , however , moon poems are comparatively much less and rather became a common feeling . How to make sense of this cultural phenomenon ? It is obviously related to the Sino-western cultures . 

This paper will take yue in the poems as a breakthrough point , combining geographic , political and economic factors of both Sino-western cultures to analyze the difference briefly . The world nowadays has been undermined by old international political and economic order , thus lead to inequality among nations and misunderstandings among different cultures and ultimately bring harm to the entire human world . The People’s Republic of China , as the successor of the Central Empire , needs not only strength but understanding and trust of other nations to rerise peacefully . The aim of this paper is to take global trends as the guidance to offer a little assistance to the better communication between two great civilizations .

Keywords: Image fo “yue”; cultural difference; understanding; in harmony and prosperous

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

Chapter 1 Introduction-1

Chapter 2 yue image in chinses poems-4

2.1 yue image of missing-4

2.2 yue image of loneliness-4

2.3 general idea of yue image in chinese poems-4

Chapter 3 yue image in western poems-6

Chapter 4 the comparison between the two typies of yue image-8

Chapter 5 relateded factors of the difference-10

5.1 geograhppic factors-8

5.2 RELIGIOUS FACTORS-8

  5.3 political and econimical factors-8

Chapter 6 Conclusion-11

References-12

Acknowledgements-13