Based on philosophy,literary,religious belief and under manners and customs,symbolic significance of Chinese garden animals make shape by absorbing different national animal culture.

To learn and study idiom by studying the associative meaning of animal, animal image both in English and Chinese idiom as well as the origin of idiom will help to achieve a thorough understanding, a proper command and a solid grasp of animal culture in idiom.

Animal culture has close relations with people\'s psychology,religion and daily lives.

Compromising natural animal,cultural animal and other garden factors,reposing personal character and sentiment,life philosophy and ideal pursue are main ways of exp.

Many English and Chinese culturally-loaded animal words differ in meaning owing to different cultural content, tradition and psychology, and the meaning differences are likely to invoke errors in comprehension and expression.

This thesis analyzes the strategies of the two versions in the translation of the two types of culture-loaded words(culture-loaded animal words and personal names) from the functionalist point of view.

This paper analyzes the differences between Japanese and English cultures in animal cultural images from multifaceted perspectives,which will be a help in learning and understanding the two languages and cultures.