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1、CulturaldifferencesinChineseandEnglishnamesKeywordsinEnglish;name;culturaldifferences;speakingEnglish-speakingcountries;Nameisasymbol,itisthedifferencebetweenthecommunitypeopletosign.Eachofusfrombirth,yougetaname,sincethen,thenamewillbeaccompaniedwithou
2、rlifeanddeath,woe,andsomepeopleusethenametoexpressawish,somepeoplegiveitsomekindofspirit,somepeopleusethenameofasymbolkindsofthings.Therefore,thenamecertainlymarkedaprofoundculturalimprint.Alltimes,duetodifferentcultural,historical,religious,linguistic,
3、geographicalandotherfactors,theSino-Britishnameshavesimilarities,butalsohassignificantdifferences,thenamesofthetwoculturesarecompared,interestingpeoplefoodforthought.First,intheBritishnameintheformofdifferenceChinesename,lastnamefirst,name;Englishcountr
4、yname,firstname,lastnameinthepost.Forexample,theChinesename:WangJian(surname+name);Englishname:LindaJones(name+lastname,Linda•Jones).Infact,thereasonsforthisdifferencehasitsnature;inChina,thesurnamenameoftheoriginofthegenerationbefore;intheUnitedKingdom
5、isthenameofthegenerationbeforelastname.Second,China'slastnameandlastnameintheEnglish-speakingcountriesmeaning,origin,source,etc.more(A)thenameofthewordmeaningintwolanguagesXuShen,"ShuoWenJieZi"contains:name,"peoplebeingborn.⋯⋯fromwomen,frombirth."〔1〕can
6、beseen,"surname"withwomenchildbirthorigin,thedescendantsofthesamemothershavethesamesurname.ItissaidthatinChina,startedfromtheFuXiisafamilyname,othermarriages.Atthattime,atribalfamilynameortagnumber,representMushiorigin,itisthefamilysystem,thetitlelogo.F
7、orexample,theYao,ShunandYu,.Fromancienttimes,tribalorpeopletonameasthehallmarksymbol,nonameatthistime.LastnamemeaninginEnglish,English"name"as"surname"or"abovethename(name)."InFrench,German,Romanlanguage,LatinandotherWesternlanguages,thenameindicated,"f
8、amilyname",meaningwecanseefromthese,"name"orfromitsrelationshipwiththefamilystartingtodefine;ordescribeitwithname,donotstressthefamilykinship.English-speakingcountrieslastname(surname)belongstothelatter,thatnameabovethename.〔2〕(B