Chinese and western humor different reasons mainly because of Chinese and western culture and way of thinking of many aspects of different causes. • Chinese is a typical aims to ask Ann feet introversive type continental farming culture, formed the spring type of divergent thinking, and keep rite and implicative; While the westerners is only for prosperity of the camber type Marine business culture, formed the traditional Chinese realistic painting sketch type linear thinking, along with the gender and make public, are their respective cultural projection.
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• 中国：在这种以自给自足为特征的 文化氛围中，便形成了一种“尚让 不尚争，尚退不尚动”的思维定势 。由于这种文化上的思维定势，便 形成了重直观的思维方式。这种思 维定势及方式决定了幽默是以直观 的方式表现出来的。如为了说帮一 个人的愚蠢，便着重描写此人说话 、做事是如何蠢，使人在读过后， 能马上直观地得出结论。 西方人形成了重创造的思辨型思维 。在幽默中，就体现为利用克制陈 述的表现手法，让人们在阅读幽默 的过程中，可以通过理解曲言，来 理解幽默本身。
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Humorous content and different function
• a、 theme • humor is a kind of human aesthetic pursuit, is a reflection of the real life, the first in its theme and content reflects the national unique customs and cultural concept. The traditional Chinese Confucian thoughts influence deeply rooted, people talk about "sex" color castern humor neutral theme is the box. And this kind of theme in western humor but make up a large proportion. • b、 the social function of humor • according to its social function is divided into: negative humor (is critical to life, shortcomings and negative phenomenon to negative), affirmative humor (to life advantages and positive phenomenon be sure) and pure humor (neither contains sure, also does not contain negative, it is just for daily phenomena are abound of appeal reflects).
（1）Nobody ever died of laughter. —— Max Beerbohm 没有人死于笑声。——马克斯毕尔邦 （2）Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. —— Anthony Burgess 笑,世界与你同笑。打呼噜,你独自睡觉。— —安东尼· 伯吉斯
Chinese & western humor of traceability
“Humor” a word comes from the Latin word "humor", it in ancient Greece is a physiological terms, it is to point to "fluid". The Greek doctor Hippocrates thinks, the person's health and different type of temperament depends on the human body four fluid mixing proportion. Temperament theory in ancient Greece, the middle ages and Renaissance great influence. Therefore, the original meaning of "humor" in the human body is the proportion of four kinds of fluids to the people's minds, constitution, the tendency of the habit, temperament, temperament, or the heart, mood.
首次把幽默引入中国的是林语堂先生。他说： “没有幽默滋润的国民，其文化必日趋虚伪，生活必 日趋欺诈，思想必日趋迂腐，文学必日趋干枯，而人 的心灵必日趋顽固。” “幽默”虽然是外来词， 但中国人民的幽默感却与中华民族的历史一样源远流 长。我国古代的诸子寓言、民间笑话无不包含着幽深 的哲理，淋漓尽致地表现出劳动人民的巧智奇思，成 为民族幽默感的佐证，如春秋时期的孔子、汉代的东 方朔、近代的林语堂先生、钱钟书先生和鲁迅先生等 的作品中都充满了幽默的智慧和精神。 第一个把幽默引入美学领域的是英国著名 的戏剧家本. 琼生。17世纪末，幽默开始具备 了现在的含义；18世纪，以幽默为美学特征的 戏剧、小说、诗歌、散文和以幽默为创作风格 的文学家、艺术家已屡见不鲜。当幽默作为美 学范畴流行全球的时候，便成为一种智慧与美 感的象征。