In fact, flowers or "sacrifices," aside from differences in religious connotation, both contain a single heartfelt meaning. And using animals as offerings has been known in both east and west; in China, they also carry thousands of years of unbroken tradition and symbolic meaning.
說穿了，鮮花和牲禮，除了宗教上的意義，不過都是一份心意；而以動物為犧牲，東、西皆然，由來已久，在中國，尤其有著千年不墜的傳統和象徵意義。