Ethical Relations or Divine Law: An Analysis of the Connotation of the Relationship between Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Across Chinese-western Cultures

This article attempts to discuss the cultural connotation of the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law across Chinese-Western Cultures from the perspective of language and culture, and start with the cultural metaphors of ethical relations and divine law as shown in the naming of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law between China and the West. Further expand and contrast through the cases in several classic discourses, and then try to break the extreme cultural stereotypes from another perspective, and finally try to explain the issue in the form of yin and yang thinking, in order to make up for the deficiencies in the clear and conceptual way of thinking in cultural comparison in explaining the issue.