Although the superstitious consciousness in reality has long been defeated in the face of materialism, at least in art and movies, the spiritual oriental culture still shows its advantages from time to time. Surrealism movies can best highlight this difference and gap between eastern and western cultures. In Janderowski's Holy Mountain, we can see how Mexican masters flaunt their fantasies at all costs and carefully seek scientific explanations and reasons for their "surreal packaging". In fact, such films in the west are often limited to verifying reality with surrealism, while oriental films can freely deconstruct surrealism with the principle of realism. Comparing the story of rainy moon, we will find how Kenji Mizoguchi confidently and naturally let ghosts enter and leave the screen at will. But it is his natural self-confidence that makes the film always shrouded in a layer of joy and a hazy and sad artistic conception.

I. Inland culture and marine culture

According to the differences of geographical environment on which their respective cultures are based, we can divide Chinese and western cultures into inland culture and marine culture, which are called "yellow civilization" and "blue civilization" respectively.

"One side nourishes the other" and "Yan and Zhao are generous and sad people", all of which are the contributions of nature, and also show the great influence of natural environment on personality shaping. "People's personality is the product of innate organization, and it is the product of people's environment in their own lives, especially in the process of development." [2] The environment here includes not only the social environment, but also the natural environment. The natural environment has a subtle influence on people, which makes people consciously or unconsciously get some edification and influence. Marx pointed out that "different communes have found different means of production and different means of subsistence in their respective natural environments. So their production methods, lifestyles and products are also different. " [3]

Chinese national civilization originated in the Yellow River Basin, and the geographical environment with three sides of land and one sea makes China almost isolated from the world, thus maintaining the strong stability and historical continuity of its own culture. This unique natural environment has created the unique cultural tradition and social psychology of the Chinese nation. Confucian ethics, which was born in the semi-closed natural environment of the mainland, teaches people to move from the important place to the light, be content with poverty and be happy, and rest at sunrise and sunset, which makes people precipitate a closed inert psychology and inertia thinking mode in a long tradition, conservative and lacking open consciousness; Cherish home and advocate quietism; Be content with the status quo, stick to the rules, stick to the rules, have a weak sense of risk and competition, and have a weak sense of time and enterprising. The so-called "mountain blocking, water letting people pass" is the truth. "Orientals don't have the sense of busyness and competition of westerners. They always look serious, never worry, and have no idea of time. Just as the word' efficiency' represents the keynote of western society leading people's thinking, the word' average' that China people often say also shows their attitude towards life. " [4] Narrow and closed life circle, fixed and long-term contact between people, in order to live in harmony, China people attach great importance to the way of the world, "everything is learned clearly, and human feelings are also learned", which also cultivated the traditional virtues of China people's modesty, prudence, tolerance and implication. China's natural environment and cultural traditions under the influence of this environment have cultivated the introverted personality of the Chinese nation. As the source of western culture, ancient Greece and Rome were both located on the peninsula, facing the sea, with developed maritime traffic and prosperous maritime trade, which made these countries form an open society that broke the blood relationship. Fierce social unrest, frequent personnel exchanges and turbulent seas and oceans have formed its open and changeable cultural character, forged its national spirit of flexibility, openness, courage, enterprising and cooperation, and advocated hard work and self-improvement. Therefore, westerners like to be unconventional, innovative, adventurous and brave. In the west, it is the cultural tradition formed in this natural environment that has developed the extroverted character of westerners.