AcknowledgementsFirstly, I want to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Ms. Hu. Because of her patient instruction, this paper is completed on time.Secondly, I want to thank the abundant library resources and convenient online resources of our school, which helped me quite a lot.Last but not least, I sincerely thank my friends. We support each other and share joys, and then we will also welcome the end of four-year university life together.AbstractGhosts' culture is a world phenomenon. There exists a vivid and long history of ghosts' culture both in China and in the west. Because of different cultural backgrounds, one region's ghosts' culture can be obviously distinguished from other regions'. Through the contrastive study of the differences and between Chinese and western ghosts' culture on the surface, deeper implications will be revealed. This paper first introduces the definition and value of ghost culture, then presents different ghosts' concepts of Chinese and western people. Usually, literatures and folk customs are the means culture used to interpret the world. In this case, this paper analyzes the differences of Chinese and western ghosts' culture from the perspectives of literature and folk custom, and probes into the reasons of the differences. From this special perspective of ghosts' culture, people can have an understanding about the differences between Chinese and western cultural so as to promote cross-cultural communication.Key Words: Chinese and western culture; ghosts' culture; ghosts' literature; ghosts' festival; funeral.摘 要鬼文化是世界性的文化现象，中西方都有着生动、悠久的鬼文化历史。受文化背景的影响，每个地域鬼文化都有着不同于其它地域鬼文化的鲜明特点。对中西方鬼文化的比较研究，是从表层次的异同进入到更深层次...
