A Survey on International Students’ Cognition and Attitude towards Chinese Culture in Xi’an
—Taking Northwestern Polytechnical University as an Example

Chinese learners’ cognition and attitude towards Chinese culture are an important factor in measuring the effectiveness of cultural dissemination in China, and also an important indicator of the quality of Chinese language teaching at present. In this paper, we take Xi’an international students as our research object, and start from the channels through which they learn about Chinese culture, their knowledge of Chinese culture, and their attitudes towards Chinese culture. Through questionnaires, we choose traditional festivals, traditional food, and Chinese characteristics as the factors to be examined. We examined Xi’an international students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards Chinese culture, explored the influence of learning level on knowledge and attitudes. The results were found: International students have an overall positive attitude towards Chinese culture. International students’ knowledge of different aspects of Chinese culture varies, and their knowledge of Chinese culture remains at a superficial level.