摘 要

李安是享誉国际影坛的著名导演，人们认为他的电影架起了中西方文化的桥梁，所以在他的电影中不难发现中国的传统文化与西方的现代文化。生于书香门第的李安幼时便深受中华传统文化的影响.毕业后留美深造并致力于对电影的研究，因而西方文化也在潜移默化地改变着李安的思想。本文以中华传统孝文化为切入点，通过赡养父母、婚姻和父权三个层面来分析李安家庭三部曲中（《推手》、《喜宴》及《饮食男女》）中华孝文化的传承及其与西方文化的冲突。

本文共分三章，第一章介绍李安的教育经历；第二章介绍中华文化中孝文化的定义及其三个主要层面：赡养父母、婚姻和父权；第三章以跨文化视角具体分析家庭三部曲中孝文化在西方文化背景下的冲击与妥协。

关键词：家庭三部曲；《推手》；《喜宴》；《饮食男女》

Abstract

Ang Lee is a world renowned director. It is well acknowledged that his movies build up a bridge between Chinese and Western culture, so his movies are the combined results of Chinese traditional culture and Western modern culture. Ang Lee was born in a family of scholars, and he was affected deeply by Chinese traditional culture when he was young. After graduation, he went to America to study film for further education, so Western culture also had a subtle influence on his mind. From the perspectives of the three aspects entailed in Chinese traditional filial piety: supporting parents, marriage and paternity, this paper analyzes the inheritances of Chinese filial piety and its conflicts with Western culture in Ang Lee’s Family Trilogy (Pushing Hands, Wedding Banquet, and Eat Drink Man Woman).

This paper is divided into three chapters, the first chapter introduces Ang Lee’s educational experiences. The second chapter gives the definition of filial piety in Chinese culture and its main three aspects: supporting parents, marriage and paternity; The third chapter analyzes the conflicts and compromises of filial piety with the cross-cultural angle in family trilogy under the background of Western culture.

Key words：Family Trilogy; Pushing Hands; Wedding Banquet; Eat Drink Man Woman

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 The Influences of Chinese and Western Education 2

3 Connotations of Filial Piety 3

3.1 Supporting parents 3

3.2 Paternity 4

3.3 Marriage 4

4 Inheritances of Filial Piety and Its Conflicts with Western Culture in Family Trilogy

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4.1 Pushing Hands 6

4.1.1 Plot of Pushing Hands 6

4.1.2 The conflicts of supporting parents 6

4.1.3 Inheritances: conflicts and compromises 8

4.2 Wedding Banquet 9

4.2.1 Plot of Wedding Banquet 9

4.2.2 The conflicts of marriage 9

4.2.3 Inheritances: conflicts and compromises 11

4.3 Eat Drink Man Woman 12

4.3.1 Plot of Eat Drink Man Woman 12

4.3.2 The conflicts of paternity 12

4.3.3 Inheritances: conflicts and compromises 14

5 Conclusions 16

References 17

Acknowledgements 19

Inheritance of Filial Piety and Its Conflicts with Western Culture

–—A Case Study of Ang Lee’s Family Trilogy

1 Introduction

When Lee was young, he was inspired by Chinese culture. In adulthood, he was affected by Western culture. Because of the special education and growing environment, Lee always feels deeper than others about the Western and Chinese cultures, and the modern and traditional cultures. It is he that stands on the cultural junction, he can use the cosmopolitan view to make films. His tolerant attitude becomes the only way to solve the cultural dilemmas and conflicts.

As Chinese cultural foundation is deeply rooted in Ang Lee’s mind, he got many unique and new ideas when facing with Western culture. And Lee put these special thoughts in his movies, especially in Chinese movies. Pushing Hands (1991) is Lee’s first feature film, together with two following films, Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which forms his Family Trilogy, this is also known as the “Father Knows Best”, each movie deals with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change. The three movies not only show the Chinese traditional culture which covers the traditional family thoughts, such as the upper position of paternity, the concept of supporting parents and marriage, but also introduce the Western culture.