摘要
数字作为一种特殊的文化语言，在日常生活或文学作品中可以折射出众多的文化层面，包括思维模式、哲学思想、宗教理念、风俗民情等，是使用频率很高的思维和交际工具。汉语和英语各有不同特色的数字文化。数字的出现由来已久；数字的功用也在不断被开发；随着经济全球化的进程，跨文化交际中出现了一系列由数字引起的误会甚至纠纷，本文主要通过对数字1-9在中西方文化中的差异比较，提高人们的数字意识；分析差异产生的原因；以及尊重数字文化多样性的重要性。

关键词：数字，寓意, 文化差异

ABSTRACT
Digital language regarded as a special culture phenomenon can reflect many cultural aspects in our daily life or literary works, including thought pattern, philosophical thinking, concept of religion, customs and so on. It is frequently used in our daily communication. This paper aims to discuss numbers; their different omens and the cause of the differences between Chinese and western culture reflected in digital numbers through various vivid examples. Synthesizing the influence of history, culture and religion on numbers, the author summarizes some common rules, hoping to do cross-cultural communication smoothly, and decrease the cultural conflicts that appear in the course cultural communication.

Key words：number; omens; cultural differences

1．Introduction
1.1 Background Information
With the development and globalization of society and economy, people all over the world have more communication and understanding. Many foreign visitors can not help but exclaim that the Chinese are really creative, and can line up numbers up so “auspiciously.” However, judging by our Chinese, people from the outside world may totally have a different cognition to the omens of numbers. For example, “6” is an auspicious number in China, and since the ancient time, Chinese people have advocated the number “6”. However, in the west countries, “6” is not a popular digital.
Despite the fact that there is a vast body of literature on intercultural communication, offering a wealth of observations and views of the subject, a forceful and unified theory of the omens of numbers is still lacking.