Abstract:As a product of culture, movie enriches the culture while culture is the foundation of movie. Movies are deeply planted into every culture over centuries and have close relationship with people’s daily life. 

　　　This paper devotes itself to describing the differences in various aspects between Chinese and western cultures on the basis of the movie entitled with Guasha and exploring the causes which lead to such cultural differences. First this paper briefly describes this movie. And then mainly describes the cultural differences between China and Western cultures in this movie and analyzes these plots from the angle of the differences in Chinese and western’s attitude to the children and the view of child education, family, friendship and “face”. The results show that the cultural differences are bound to be there due to the differences in perspective of philosophy, mode of conduct, history, geography, etc. Ways to solve the cultural conflicts are offered finally. It asks us to learn to tolerate, adapt to the cultural diversity and have the intercultural awareness.

Key words:  the movie Guasha; cultural differences; causes; solutions

中文摘要:电影作为文化的产物，它丰富了文化并且文化也是它的基础。经过了一个多世纪的发展，电影已深入文化的各个角落，和人们的日常生活都有着密切的联系。

　　　本文主要依托《刮痧》这部著名影片，以影片中反映中西文化差异的生动情节为切入点描述了中西方文化的差异，分析并指出造成中西文化差异的原因。本文首先对《刮痧》这部影片进行了简要的介绍。之后主要讲述了中西文化差异在这部影片中的具体体现，以影片的具体情节为导线，从传统文化的差异的角度对这些情节进行了分析。内容主要涉及中西家庭对待孩子的态度、中西方人的孩子教育观、家庭观和友谊观、面子观等。通过研究分析，发现由于中西方在哲学观点、行为习惯、历史、地理上的差异，中西文化差异的存在是必然的，并在此基础上探讨了解决中西文化冲突的方法。我们要学会包容，了解文化多样性和加强跨文化交流意识才是中西文化发展的正确道路。

关键词:  电影《刮痧》；中西方文化差异；原因；解决方法