英國有趣的文化英語介紹

　　Summer vacation is coming, Detective Sherlock this classic old film is often taken over and over again to watch, it also contains some interesting cultural phenomena, today let​​'s talk about British hat culture!

　　Do The British Really Wear These Exaggerated HatS In Real Life?

　　In London​​'s shopping malls, there are a lot of hats that look gorgeous and even exaggerated, like props for stage shows, but in fact, the British do wear them in real life. It is said that The British people wear hats for activities including weddings, funerals, birthday parties, and even opera and speeches. The different styles and different ways of wearing hats also show people different degrees of self-confidence, experience and experience.

　　British hat culture and social customs

　　In Britain, many social customs are related to hats. If a man visits a friend, be sure to take off his hat when he enters the house. When meeting acquaintances in the street, women simply nod to acquaintances or say hello, but men generally have to take off their hats to give gifts. This custom of taking off your hat to salute and show respect is also reflected in the English language.

　　The role of hats

　　In addition to aesthetics, etiquette and other factors, the reporter found that the British wear hats are also related to the weather. In the UK, there are sun days, ultraviolet light is particularly strong, the skin is soon tanned; And cloudy days, moving on a few drops of light rain, most of them are wet with clothes, umbrellas are really not worth it, bare head is quite cold, so it is necessary to prepare a hat sunny day shade, cloudy weather.

　　What do we think of when we talk about Britain? Is it the traditional British cuisine of fish and chips or a variety of English dramas. In fact, these things are passing on British culture, so let​​'s introduce British culture!

　　First, the cultural characteristics of the nobility hierarchy.

　　There has always been a clear hierarchy in British society, mainly due to the strong and lasting influence of the aristocracy, although the British first carried out the anti-feudal bourgeois revolution, but the aristocracy has never been completely denied, the aristocratic hierarchy has been in The United Kingdom has a significant influence, even after the bourgeois revolution more than a hundred years later is still known as the "aristocratic century." Noble culture can become an important part of traditional culture, because first, the British nobles have a strong sense of social responsibility, whether it is against foreign enemies or against feudal monarchy, nobles have taken the lead in participating; Second, compared with the european nobles, corruption, depravity, shamelessness, inaction and other phenomena are rare among the British nobles: third, the British nobles have a respect for courage, justice, reason, self-control, love of the countryside and other qualities.

　　Second, the characteristics of liberal culture.

　　Western liberalism was popular in ancient Greek city-state politics as early as the 16th century, and after the 16th century, the European bourgeoisie developed liberal political theology in order to oppose feudal autocracies and church authority. Because of the uniqueness of the British historical process and the advocacy of Locke et al., the British self-claiming culture has formed different traditions in concepts and practices than that of continental European countries. In contrast to France and Germany, the British "tradition of freedom" was reinforced in the anti-feudal struggle. Historian E i Gibbon called them "heroic" and "love of freedom" in The History of the Decline of the Roman Empire. The English aristocracy prevailed, the strength of a single nobleman was relatively weak, can not be independent as king or subdue king, but the large and small nobles because of it became an equal relationship, can move freely, and when the king broke the law, the nobles can unite against the king, thus forming a king to enjoy rights, but must fulfill the obligations, subjects obey the obligation, but to enjoy the right to freedom as a prerequisite pattern.

　　Third, because of the old-fashioned, self-styled, traditional cultural characteristics.

　　An important feature of the evolution of British history is the greater consistency of its cultural tradition, which inevitably leads the British to adhere to a traditional view, that is, to advocate the wisdom and achievements of the past, and to advocate the traditional system and way of life. Coupled with the fact that British history belongs to the farming society, the concept of squire has far-reaching influence, which will inevitably lead to the conservative nature of British life. For most English people, old is an asset, not a burden, and ancient times are probably the best. The British do not want drastic social changes to disrupt their quiet lives, threaten their privileged position, and always do everything possible to keep change within their acceptable limits. Today, many ancient systems and concepts still prevail in Britain, such as the royal family, the aristocracy, public school, gentlemanliness and so on。

　　相信很多人都看過英國的電影，多呈現的一些英國文化還是非常有意思的，不同的國家不同的國情，體現在文化的層面上就會各不一致，英國人在很多人的印象中都是非常有紳士風度的，一度受到很多年輕人的追捧，接下來我們就來小了解下英國的一些比較有趣的文化和風俗吧。

　　見面風俗

　　我們中國人第一次見面的雙方除了是很正式的場合，工作職場上的關係才是握手，平時會比較口語化的問候以下而已，而英國人彼此第一次相識時，一般都要握手。除了熱戀中的男女，步行時一般人都不手拉手。英國人不喜歡別人干擾他們的個人生活。 當你去訪問一個英國人時，得先在門口敲門，一直等到他說“請進”，才能進去。先生們進屋脫帽，而女士們則不必在室內脫帽。

　　英國人喜歡下班後到酒吧喝酒

　　每個地方都有每個地方的習俗，就像在我們的固定印象中，廣東人就喜歡到酒樓喝早茶一樣。酒吧的英文是Pub，Pub的由來也是有一段歷史的，一千年前的英國農家喜歡自己釀酒，後來覺得自己喝不過癮，於是就搬出來賣，為了能招攬顧客，於是便在外面掛上招牌，因為農夫不會寫字，所以招牌上沒有文字，只有圖案。在英國有很多酒吧都是歷史悠久的，是許多作家、藝術家流連索取靈感的地方。每一家酒吧都有不同的圖案，都代表著每一個非常不同的、傳奇的故事。

　　英國的國石是鑽石

　　現在很多年輕人結婚都會買鑽石戒指，代表著永恆的愛情，其實鑽石的概念就說從國外傳過來的，像英國的男人喜歡用鑽石代表自己的決定和果敢；而女人則願意用鑽石比喻自己的聖潔和高貴。英國人很早就把鑽石作為男女間的定情物，隨著大英帝國的崛起，這一習俗很快就被西方世界所採納，並傳播到東方。