From Defending Tradition Into Approving The Theory Of Chinese Learning As Fundamental Structure And Western Learning For Practical Use--The Research Of Weng Tonghe's Intellectual Psychology Course

As an important minister in the late period of Qing Dynasty, Weng Tonghe was a man of the hour in the political arena of Qing Dynasty. On Weng Tonghe's study, historians less focused on his intellectual psychology course, and particularly emphasized the political and military affairs that affected on him. This text announces Weng Tonghe's intellectual psychology Course changed from defending tenaciously tradition into consenting "Chinese learning as fundamental structure and western learning for practical use", according to the socially traditional change and political affairs in the late period of Qing Dynasty influenced him.In his early years, Weng Tonghe lived in the world of Confucian culture. Aiming to improve his virtue and refine his achevements, he was full of confidence in Confucian tradition. But after the Opium War, Western Movement and the change of social environment, he became aware of "the inkling of western affairs" . He did not reject and even was curious about western affairs and matters.From the Sino-Franco War into the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, Weng Tonghe struggled in carrying out the reform. He got in touch with a lot of western matters and learning. They gave him deep impression such as advanced western science and technology, convenient foreign goods. After the Sino-Franco War, when he confronted with "the changes took place for the first time since thousands of years ago" and the decline of the national power in the Qing Dynasty, he brought forward to building modern navy, and crying out western affairs as "the most important thing". In theory, he realized that western military science can resist foreign aggression and foreignerswere not Yidi. But, as a commissary of uncontaminated groups and Confucianism spokesman, he feared that western culture could impact Chinese traditional moral principles, social life and ideology. From his personal affection, he preserved the tradition as well. So he hesitated and wandered between change or not.After the Sino-Japanese War to the beginning of the Reform Movement of 1898 , Weng Tonghe became an approver of westernizationists' theory of Chinese learning as fundamental structure and western learning for practical use. After the Sino-Japanese War, he realized that "China could not survive and develop if the Qing Dynasty did not reform the policy". He agreed with the reform of westernization groups, connected with reformers and foreigners. He definitely put forward that the aim of political reform was "based on Confucian culture and adoptted western learning for practical use". He illuminated that military conception based on the western military standard of training new military army, economy conception of "commercial battle" and education conception of setting up latest type school. Thus, he had already agreed with and practised the theory of "Chinese learning as fundamental structure and western learning for practical use", he became a practicer of westernizationists' view.