传统文化是一个社会在长期实践中形成的、对其成员具有普遍约束力的行为方式和认识世界的方式,它使一个社会区别于另一个社会。证券市场是西方国家经济发展的产物,同时也是在西方文化背景下滋生的,有其培育和发展的特定土壤。一般说来,西方传统文化可分为中世纪前后以欧洲教会教义为中心的传统文化和近代资本主义传统文化,而西方证券市场的萌芽与发展完全是在资本主义传统文化的基础上发展起来 Traditional culture is a society formed in the long-term practice of universal binding behavior of its members and ways to understand the world, it makes a society different from another society. The stock market is a product of the economic development in the western countries. It is also a breeding ground for development under the background of western culture. In general, the traditional western culture can be divided into the traditional culture centered around the European Church doctrine before and after the Middle Ages and the traditional culture of modern capitalism. However, the emergence and development of the western stock market are based entirely on the traditional culture of capitalism