篇一：GRE issue写作之自己总结的万能例子
Renaissance
For example, the helpless fate can be felt from the tragedy works, written by Shakespeare. Mona Lisa, created by Beethoven, revealed the mysterious and implicit smile.
Although works completed by different artists and writers revealed slight variations in the access, performing form, and social aspect focusing on, as far as common theme and hidden ideas were concerned, the obvious similries to each other seemed much more than any of the minute differences, namely, resisting the feudalization and corrupt institution and enlightening freedom of human being. This is called “Renaissance” in the history.
Genetic engineering
迄今为止，基因工程还没有用于人体，但已在从细菌到家畜的几乎所有非人生命物体上做了实验，并取得了成功。事实上，所有用于治疗糖尿病的胰岛素都来自一种细菌，其ＤＮＡ中被插入人类可产生胰岛素的基因，细菌便可自行复制胰岛素。基因工程技术使得许多植物具有了抗病虫害和抗除草剂的能力；在美国，大约有一半的大豆和四分之一的玉米都是转基因的。目前，是否该在农业中采用转基因动植物已成为人们争论的焦点：支持者认为，转基因的农产品更容易生长，也含有更多的营养（甚至药物），有助于减缓世界范围内的饥荒和疾病；而反对者则认为，在农产品中引入新的基因会产生副作用，尤其是会破坏环境。
诚然，仍有许多基因的功能及其协同工作的方式不为人类所知，但想到利用基因工程可使番茄具有抗癌作用、使鲑鱼长得比自然界中的大几倍、使宠物不再会引起过敏，许多人便希望也可以对人类基因做类似的修改。毕竟，胚胎遗传病筛查、基因修复和基因工程等技术不仅可用于治疗疾病，也为改变诸如眼睛的颜色、智力等其他人类特性提供了可能。比如，运用此技术，可使患儿的父母生一个和患儿骨髓匹配的孩子，然后再通过骨髓移植来治愈患儿。
So far, genetic engineering has not been used in human, but it has achieved successful experiment in almost all the objects on non-human life--from bacteria to livestock already. In fact, all the insulin treatment for diabetes come from a kind of bacteria which can be inserted into a human genes to make copies of insulin by bacteria oneself. Genetic engineering technology makes many plants have the disease-resistant ability and herbicide, In the USA, about half of soybean and a quarter of corn is genetically modified.
At present, whether the transgenic plants used in agriculture has become the focus of debate, transgenic supporters think: the agricultural is faster to growth, and easier to contain more nutrition (even medicine), to help slow down worldwide famine and disease, But opponents argued, introducing new genes into agricultural will occur side effects, especially destroy the environment.
Advantage:
Admittedly, ethicist rejected the innovative development of genetic engineering because,
although it resolved some problems, it also produced new complications. Nevertheless,
there are still many genes function and work principle beyond human knowledge, but using genetic engineering can make the tomatoes have anti-cancer effects, make the salmon bigger than in nature, and also make pet no longer allergy, many people are expect to do similar human genetic modification. After all, gene engineering technology can not only cure the disease, also make most possibility for change human characteristics, such as eye color, intelligence and others. For example, by using this technology, it is possible to make the parents pregnant to born a baby whose bone matches one needs homogenous bone, and then through the bone marrow transplants to cure patients.
We said the advantages and disadvantages of biological technology, is mainly refers to the genetic engineering.
弊:1) 克隆将减少遗传变异，通过克隆产生的个体具有同样的遗传基因，同样的疾病敏感性，一种疾病就可以毁灭整个由克隆产生的群体。 可以设想，如果一个国家的牛群都是同一个克隆产物，一种并不严重的病毒就可能毁灭全国的畜牧业。
2) 克隆技术的使用将使人们倾向于大量繁殖现有种群中最有利用价值的个体，而不是按自然规律促进整个种群的优胜劣汰。从这个意义上说，克隆技术干扰了自然进化过程.
7) 克隆技术对家庭关系带来的影响也将是巨大的。一个由父亲的DNA克隆生成的孩子可以看作父亲的双胞胎兄弟，只不过延迟了几十年出生而已。很难设想，当一个人发现自己只不过是另外一个人的完全复制品，他（或她）会有什么感受？
所以说,科学技术有时就是一把双刃剑,有利也有没弊,没有标准答案!就看人们这样利用了! Disadvantages:
1) genetic engineering would reduce the genetic variation of individuals and own the same diseases sensitivity , as a result, a disease can destroy whole colony by cloning. So we can imagine that, if a nation is the same cloned cattle, a kind of the virus could destroy the animal husbandry.
2) The use of genetic engineering will make people tend to propagate the most value individual within existing colony, rather than the natural law of survival. In this sense, the cloning technology will interrupt the procession of natural evolution. Interference
7) genetic engineering will lead a great influence on family relationships. A father of the DNA can be seen as twin brothers, but only delayed for decades. It is hard to imagine that, when a man found himself was just another man's fully reproductions, what feelings will he or she have?
So, science and technology is a double-edged sword, sometimes, there are no harm and no standard answer! Just look like people to use!
Galileo
Galileo, Italian astronomer and physicist, discovered law of uniform acceleration of falling bodies.
For example, Galileo, the great astronomer and physicist in X century, overthrowed the famous theory ,established over 2000 years ago by great people—Aritle, through the experience and thus led to discover law of uniform acceleration of falling bodies. Therefore, the question on the
science might usually contribute the unexpected devotion to the progress of science, not obstacle one.
Bearing generation
“垮掉的一代”是美国战后的一代，他们成长在一个循环发生战争的世界上，他们中的一些成为了一种新的文化的杰出代表，即“垮掉”哲学。他们的思想在绝对自由的躯体里得以升华，在美国战后忧伤失望让人窒息的精神“荒原”时代拔地腾空而起，划破了迷茫的天空，给人们以极大震撼的同时也给了人们面对现实的勇气，在很程度上决定当时社会的发展趋势。
"Beat generation is indicated that American who grew up in a cycle of world war, but some of them became a outstanding representatives of tendency of new culture, named " the collapse "philosophy. Their thought is updated in absolute freedom body, skyrocketed in the "wasteland" era which make the people feel disappointed during the world war two, ripped out of the sky and over to people with great shock also gives people the courage of facing reality, certainly, they determined the social development trend at that time..
Thatcherism 撒切尔主义
Thatcherism inferred to the policies put forward by Margaret Thatcher, the first woman prime minister in England in 1979. the main contents of her policies included the return to private ownership of state-owned industries, the use of monetarist policies to control inflation, the weakening of trade unions and the strengthening of the role of markets forces in the economy, and an emphasis on law and order. To some extant their her program was successful and she led to one of the most remarkable period in the British economy.
Measures taken by Mrs.Thatcher’s government to improve the economy 撒切尔政府为改善经济为采取的措施。
Mrs.Thatcher’s government took numerous measures to improve the efficiency of the economy during the past decade, using both macroeconomic and microeconomic policies.
(1) Macroeconomic measures were directed toward bringing down the rate of inflation and
achieve price stability.
(2) Microeconomic policies were aimed at working with the gain of market forces by encouraging enterprise, efficiency and flexibility.
geophysics地球物理
1. 想象与现实（理论指导实践）
大陆漂移学说----由魏格纳提出，的提出深化了人们对地球板块构造的认识，同时也对地球
的板块构造做出了一个合理的解释，并进一步在达尔文的进化学说中得到了验证。这一理论至今指导了地质学家，地球物理学家，以及有关地质方面的专家对地球进行进一步的分析和研究。
Continental drift assumption，proposed by Wagner, put forward to deepen the understanding of plate construction, and also made a reasonable explanation for it, and also verified further by the theory of revolution. Nowadays, this theory has guided geologists, geophysicists, and relevant geological experts for further analysis and research.
从上面这个生动的例子可以看出，一种合理的想象----建立在一定的事实基础之上，不但会对已有的事实进行合理的解释，而且还可以指导人们进一步对现有事实进行归纳，整理和分析，从而发现其共同规律，协调着他们相互之间的复杂关系。
From vivid example mentioned above, we can infer that a reasonable imagination - based on certain facts, not only could explain existing fact, but also could guide people further to summarize, classify and analysis the facts, therefore common regulation and inner interaction would be discovered, which could harmonize complex relationships among them.
2. 历史对现在的作用/科学技术对人们生活的影响
The role of history now /science and technology on people's life e
（随着科学技术的 发展和进步，实验仪器的精度和探测深度有了飞速的提高）人们通过（更先进的）地球物理（如地震波勘探）手段对地壳内部的结构进行探索，通过地质学的手段对地表的物质特性进行分类，归纳和研究，使得对地球的演化历史和以及过去人们的活动规律有了更为准确的掌握，而这些结果和规律可以帮助人们对现在的生产活动对地球造成的影响进行预测，如人类过度抽取地下水对地层位移的影响，对比不同地质历史时期人们的活动对地球大气成分的影响，人们的过度扩张对其他生物的影响等。
(As the development of science and progress of technology, the accuracy and detecting depth of experiment instrument is increasing enhancing)
The structure of inner crust could be explored through the advancer geophysical access such as the method of seismic wave propagation by the geophysicist, and the properties of substance of surface earth could be classified, summarized, and analysis by utilizing more precise and advancer equipments. These results and rules can help predict the influence of people’s activity to mostly diminish negative influence on earth.
Such as, displacement of strata contrast influenced by over pipeing underwater, transformation of ingredient of atmosphere influenced by the human activity in different history periods, and the living condition of other creature influenced by excessive expanding of human being.
从上面这个生动的例子可以看出，（日益先进的科学技术）历史----即使在一般人看来总是和现在人们的日常生活没有必然的联系，最终会对人们的决定起到指导作用，从而使得人们可以做出一个最优选择，不但有利于人们的综合发展，而且也能和其他生物友好相处，合理利用地球资源。
The vivid example mentioned above demonstrated that, ( the increasing advanced science and technology) history -- even no necessary relevance with the daily life to general people, would be available to advise for human ultimately, so that people can make an optimal choice, not only benefit to the comprehensive development of human being, but also can be get along well with other creatures, utilizing resources reasonable.
如水污染会导致有限的水资源更加紧缺，空气污染会导致人们更容易患呼吸疾病，而更多空调，冰箱的滥用导致了臭氧层空洞—人们的保护伞，隔离着基本上所有对人类有害的辐射。
water pollution will lead to the shortage of water resources is more limited, air pollution will cause people are more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases, and more air conditioner, refrigerator abuse led to the (空洞empty hole)of ozone layer - people's umbrella, which insulate almost harmful radiation from outer space.
3. 知识在怀疑和证实中积累和进步
当大陆漂移学说—由魏格纳提出，刚刚被提出来的时候，人们对这个新的理论充满了热情和好奇，纷纷支持和赞扬它的伟大和新颖，但是后来随着一些历史事实的发掘，却不但被无情的批判，而且最终遭到了地质学家和地球物理学家的抛弃---随着另一种假说的提出，地幔热柱学说。现在
When the continental drift assumption, proposed by Wagner, firstly comes, the mostly people, who are full of enthusiasm and curiosity, completely support and praise. But later, with some relatively historical facts occurring, continental drift assumption is not only criticized ruthless, but discarded ultimately by the geologists and geophysicists as another hypothesis of plume appears. Now, by analysis more new historical evidence and summarizing geological phenomenon, the continental drift assumption is accepted again, they view that it can explain more difficult geological phenomena comparing with other assumption.
从大陆漂移学说的提出到最终被人们所接受的过程中可以看出，一个学说，总是不断的在人们的怀疑和证实中进步，而不是一开始就完全正确或者完全错误，最终成为可以为人类服务的科学理论。
From the continental drift assumption mentioned above, we can infer that knowledge, especially occurred firstly, is always doubted and verified as the development of relative course, but not completely right or wrong at begin, eventually becoming authentically scientific theory.
Leonardo Da Vinci
1.达芬奇怀疑权威：
Leonardo Da Vinci question authority
在天文学上，达.芬奇对传统的“地球中心说”持否定的观点．他认为地球不是太阳系的中心，更不是宇宙的中心，而只是一颗绕太阳运转的行星，太阳本身是不运动的．达.芬奇还认为月亮自身并不发光，他只是反射太阳的光辉．他的这些观点的提出早于哥白尼“太阳中心说” For example, rather than asserting the traditional view—the central of earth, Leonardo Da Vinci argues that the earth is not the central of solar galaxy, only a planet orbiting the sun. The sun itself is still quiescent. And also, he argue that the moon itself only reflect the light coming from the sun, not lighting itself.
2.知识经验的积累（历史对现在的作用）
他提出的知识起源于实践的这种方法，后来得到了伽利略的发展，并由英国哲学家弗兰西斯．培根从理论上加以总结，成为近代自然科学的最基本方法．
篇二：可以被当做素材的新GRE作文例子_GRE写作
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可以被当做素材的新GRE作文例子_GRE写作
名人事件或者是一些著名例子经常被当做GRE写作素材来使用。风格严谨的issue喜欢富有逻辑新GRE作文方式，所以不仅要结构扎实，更要有有理有据的GRE组我恩例子作为辅助说用，下面就为大家提供GRE写作论证素材大全，希望对大家的GRE写作有一定主力。
我在准备issue过程中用到的查到的一些词及词组，我发现在引用例子的时候很多时候是知道用中文怎么说却常常被一个词的英文说法而难住了，所以我就一个个都查了出来，可能不能满足大家所有的要求，也希望对大家有点帮助吧，祝大家杀G成功： 1)The flight of Apollo 11; lunar landing mission ，阿波罗11号的登月计划
另外，Apollo 13号的登月很惊险，大家可能都知道吧?看过电影“阿波罗13”的人都知道这段历史吧?不知道的兄弟姐妹上百度搜一下就知道啦!，还有，“挑战者号” Challenger;哥伦比亚号 Columbia
1)杨氏双缝实验(大学物理讲过的，呵呵)：Young’ double-slit experiment，严格来说，这个实验是用classical theory cannot explain，这里面涉及到 quantum theory，即量子理论，我不是学物理的，但是据我查的资料上说，其实人类对量子理论并没有完全地明白，也没法用它解释一切，这个观点我觉得可能用来说明人类的认识过程是由不知到知的认识过程，要用发展的眼光来看问题。
2)火星登月计划：Mars Exploration Rover Mission which costs $425 million every year for the assembly, test and launch process which is just the same amount as it costs to the film Titanic and Pearl Harbor，哇，够狠，老美有钱!另外，moon rover是月球车的意思，同理Mars rover.
3)Manhattan Project，曼哈顿计划，就是当年Einstein 和 Oppenheimer(奥本海默，这小子狠，被称为原子弹之父，一定要记住，这小子在听说美国在对 Hiroshima，即日本广岛投原子弹之后，曾感叹自己当初不应该研制原子弹which给人类带来了灾难，科技与人性的题目能用到)
4)多利Dolly，不用说了，我想顺着这只名羊提一提关于基因工程( genetic engineering)，转基因技术：
transgenics，人体胚胎：human embryo，DNA分子双螺旋结构：the double-helix structure of DNA,还有两个牛人，就是发现DNA分子双螺旋结构的沃森和克里克,Waston and Crick
5)二战纳粹德国在活人上做实验，用大量的犹太妇女人活体实验为的是研制避孕药(oral contraceptive) 7)关于丑闻：Bill Clinton’s sexual scandal with Monica Lewinsky;Nixon’s Watergate scandal;兴奋剂：stimulant;猥亵(针对那个把自己黑皮染白的那个小子的)：v. molest; n. molestation; Kobe Bryant Rape case;
6)垃圾邮件：不要再说junk mail啦，老土!有个更native的词：spam，记住哟! 9)环境问题：
氟利昂：freon，臭氧层：ozonosphere/ ozone layer，臭氧空洞：ozone hole;赤潮：red tide 7)关于美国总统：
刺杀总统;岂今为止，美国一共有四位总统被刺杀，第一位是Abraham Lincoln,最后一位是John F. Kennedy，还有许多刺杀未遂的，比如刺杀Roosevelt，Truman等等，这可以被用来例子表明领导者不可能让每一个人都满意.
另外，罗斯福是个残疾人，大家知道吧?脊髓灰质炎导致坐在轮椅上，不过他并不是小时候得的病，挺奇怪，小儿麻痹并不是像我们想象的那样只能小时候得谈到杜鲁门，我得多说一句，当年美国的曼哈顿计划是罗斯福批的，知道美国要研究原子弹的人并不多，甚至许多后来参加研制的科学家都不知道自己在从事什么研究工作，保密工作做的相当严密，以致后来罗斯福下台，杜鲁门上台的时候都不知道美国已经研制出了原子弹.
8)北美最大范围的停电：blackout (or power failure )in eastern US and Canada，人类对科技依赖的例证.
9)巨牛的深蓝电脑，就是下棋的那个 Deep Blue，是IBM的电脑，有256个processor，
另外IBM还有个别称 Big Blue
10)直线加速器 linear accelerator，回旋加速器 cyclotron accelerator
11)永动机 perpetual motion machine
12)名人
Albeit Einstein：photo electronic effect (光电效应) ;question classical mechanics, quantum theory,不要墨守成规 stick to conventions, 头脑要灵活，不能太固执 adamant/ obstinate/ stubborn/ headstrong，质能方程：mass-energy equation
Galileo: did experiment on Leaning Tower of Pisa to discover law of uniform acceleration of falling bodies; discovered that moon shines with reflected light; denounced for advocating Copernican system ;was later tried by Inquisition(宗教法庭) and forced to recant(改变信仰); 哥白尼Copernicus，日心说：sun-centered system地心说：earth-centered system， 布鲁诺Bruno，火刑be burned at stake Isaac Newton ：经典力学classical mechanics, 万有引力universal gravitation，be inspired by the falling apple; stand on the shoulders of giants
Hegel 黑格尔: 1770-1831 German philosopher; his dialectic process for reconciling opposites influenced Existentialists, Marx, etc.
Karl Marx 的辩证唯物主义来自于黑格尔的辩证法dialectic 和费尔巴哈Feuerbach的唯物论
Vincent van Gogh：梵高，作品 sunflower Monet 莫奈 作品 suise
His work influenced the development of the big bang(宇宙大爆炸理论) and black hole(黑洞) theory
(struggle against segregation in South Africa) the South African black political leader and former president, was
awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight againstSouth Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.
the German Composer, began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was entirely deaf by 1819. However, this obstacle could
not keep him from becoming one of the most famous and prolific composers in art history. His music, including 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, several senates and so on, forms a transition from classical to romantic composition. Individual, Companies, Leadership and Internal control
notebook computers it produced, one model had serious defect. Users in North America could choose either replacements with an upgraded model or full refund. However, no such offer for users in China. Chinese users were outraged at the company's discrimination and refused to use any of Toshiba's notebook computers. What the company lost is not only the temporary revenue but also the consumer's confidence, which contribute to the long-term success of the company.
reforms and projects known as the New Deal. Under his sagacious leadership, America successfully walked out the shadow of Recession and conquered the notorious fascism in the Second World War. And according to a poll conducted at Harvard in 1950, Roosevelt is highly renowned as one of the greatest president of American, ranking only after Washington and Lincoln.
shaped the character of the office of president; universally regarded as father of his country. Abraham Lincoln: 16th president of the U.S. (1861-65); successfully preserved the Union during the American Civil War; issued Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in rebelling states; made famous address dedicating cemetery at Gettysburg; assassinated five days after end of Civil War.
: chief author of Declaration of Independence (1776); 3d president of the U.S. (1801*09); purchased Louisiana from France, sent Lewis and Clark to explore it; prohibited importation of slaves; instrumental in founding U. of Virginia. From him we can see the importance initially laid upon education. He required his progenies to carve such epitaph on his tombstone as ‘chief author of Declaration of Independence; author of the Freedom Law of Religion in Virginia; Father of the Virginia Uni.’ Without mentioning of his presidency. It reflected vividly what a status of education in Jefferson’s heart and this status was inherited by his successors. It is why American’s being super power of the world today.
December 17, 1903, two brothers named Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first airplane flight 哥俩的飞机就在天上呆了12秒.
: probed the mysteries of radioactivity and X rays. In 1903, she and her husband won the Nobel Prize in physics, one of the most important awards in science. In 1911, Marie Curie won a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry. She is one of very few people in history to win two Nobel prizes.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”
and New Zealand Osama bin Laden
Confucius孔子，Mencius 孟子
13)偷窥：peep，窃听: wiretap
14)颁布法律：enact a law
15)弱肉强食：the law of jungle
16)路易十六 Louis XVI，就是被最终砍头(be guillotined)的那个法国国王
以上就是新GRE写作论证素材大全，都是很好的新GRE组我恩例子，希望这些例子可以帮助大家拿到新GRE作文高分。通过这些例子，大家是不是也找到了一些GRE写作的灵感呢?
篇三：GRE作文例子
伽利略的所有试验中，最著名的该算是“质量相异者同时落地”，这个试验推翻了亚里士多德的关于落体速度与其质量成正比的理论。但事实上，并没有纪录表明伽利略真的做了这个著名试验。
Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. A biography by Galileo's pupil Vincenzo Viviani stated that Galileo had dropped balls of the same material, but different masses, from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass. This was contrary to what Aristotle had taught: that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones, in direct proportion to weight. While this story has been retold in popular accounts, there is no account by Galileo himself of such an experiment, and it is generally accepted by historians that it was at most a thought experiment which did not actually take place.
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
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Movements
The term labor movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour relations.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. His main legacy is securing progress on civil rights in the United States. Because of this work, he has become a human rights icon. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.
"I Have a Dream" is the famous name given to the sixteen minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination.
伊斯兰教妇女The study of women in Islam investigates the role status of women within the religion of Islam. The complex relationship between women and Islam is defined by both Islamic texts and the history and culture of the Muslim world.
Sharia (Islamic law) provides for differences between women's and men's roles, rights, and obligations. Majority Muslim countries give women varying degrees of rights with regards to marriage, divorce, civil rights, legal status, dress code, and education based on different
interpretations. Scholars and other commentators vary as to whether they are just and whether they are a correct interpretation of religious imperatives. Conservatives argue that differences between men and women are due to different status and ), p. 278</ref> while liberal Muslims, Muslim
feminists, and others argue in favor of other interpretations. Some women have achieved high political office in Muslim majority states.
Sartorial hijab（头盖）, and the veil（面纱） in particular, has often been viewed by Westerners as a sign of oppression of Muslim women.
婚礼Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift (offering, ring(s), symbolic item, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader. Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is followed by a wedding reception.
Chinese wedding customs
Main articles: Chinese marriage and Southern Chinese wedding
Traditional Chinese marriage is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involve a
marriage established by pre-arrangement between families. Within Chinese culture, romantic love was allowed, and monogamy was the norm for most ordinary citizens. A band of musicians with gongs and flute-like instruments accompanies the bride parade to groom's home. Similar music is also played at the wedding banquet. Depending on the region that the bride hails from, Chinese weddings will have different traditions such as Tea Ceremony or the use of a wedding emcee. Also in modern times, Chinese couples will often go to photo studios to take "glamour shots" posing in multiple gowns and various backgrounds.
Most regional Chinese wedding rituals follow the main Chinese wedding traditions, although some rituals are particular to the peoples of the southern China region. In most southern Chinese wedding, the bride price is based on the groom's economic status. The idea of "selling the daughter" or bride isn't a phrase that is used often therefore the price of the bride isn't too
demanding. Most of the time the bride price is in the form of gold jewelry, fine fabric, or money, even a roast pig which symbolizes the bride to be a virgin. Wedding presents are given by the elderly couples or couples that are older than the newlyweds and tea is served by the younger family members.
A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white dress and veil. This tradition was popularized through the wedding of Queen Victoria. Some say Victoria's choice of a white gown may have simply been a sign of
extravagance, but may have also been influenced by the values she held which emphasized sexual purity. Within the modern 'white wedding' tradition, a white dress and veil are unusual choices for a woman's second or subsequent wedding. The notion that a white gown might symbolize sexual purity has been long abandoned, and is criticized by etiquette writers like Judith Martin as distasteful.
The use of a wedding ring has long been part of religious weddings in Europe and America, but the origin of the tradition is unclear. Historians like Vicky Howard point out that belief in the
"ancient" quality of the practice are most likely a modern invention. "Double ring" ceremonies are also a modern practice, a groom's wedding band not appearing in the United States until the early 20th Century.
The wedding is often followed by a reception, in which the rituals may include toasting the newlyweds, their first dance as spouses, and the cutting of a wedding cake.