Animals in Chinese and Western Culture

In the development of human civilization,human beings have had frequent contact with different animals.Because of the differ ent cultural background of Chinese and English nationalities and the individuality of national culture,the animals also reflect the different totems or symbols.So in order to learn English well,learn the animals in different culture deeply and communicate properly in inter-cul tural communications,it is necessary to comparative analysis the different culture in Chinese and Western.This paper studied the reflection and connotation of animas in Chinese and western culture.Through giving examples and analysis the two aspects,this paper found that the reasons causing animals connotation differences in different cultures.