A Discussion On LiangQichao's Cultural Nationalism

Nationalism is a historical program, and it is more than a realistic problem. In present society, economic and cultural unifinication tendency is increasingly obvious, cultural exchange is increasingly frequent. While how to maintain the inherent characteristics of Chinese traditional national culture in cultural exchange and absorb exotic excellent culture extensively, in order to reach the aims of condensing people with traditional culture as link and keep out of the dilemma of the limitation of tradition to be national and cultural to find an appropriate road, and becomes an important problem that the cultural nationalism of our country should solve.In Chinese modern times, Chinese traditional culture is faced with threats and the vigorous impacts of western advanced culture; LiangQichao has begun the exploration for this problem. Though in his thought, we can discover its strong cultural nationalism trend, still few persons have carried out systematic, overall research for his nationalism thought.Actually in the thought of morals inheriting-sight, cultural transitional sight as well as the cultural sight of combination, we can found that his cultural nationalism banner everywhere, he emphasizes that we should cherish and respect national traditional culture, inherit national morals. He puts forward to finding new morals and building new culture. He holds firm nationalism position, makes effort to excavate traditional advantages in order to make sure that it set up firm national self-confidence and hold an important role in social steady development and strengthen the national consciousness of compatriots in the course of building new culture.Turning to treating traditional culture, LiangQichao insists to maintain inherent national characteristics and complete the creative transform of tradition culture. He excavates the reasonable kernel ofChinese excellent culture with great efforts; with the aid of tradition to absorb outside culture to better tradition, try hard to detect the cultural tradition of this nation to develop modern academic ideological resource in order to revive the form of Chinese culture and then give birth to modern national new culture.LiangQichao's cultural nationalism have support us reference today on how to develop national culture, however, we will also pay attention: Cultural nationalism is a double-edged sword, it can protect and promote the development of national culture, also may cause injury and obstruction conversely to national culture or mislead its development. Therefore how to train a kind of rational, healthy national cultural feelings is a great mission in new century.LiangQichao's cultural nationalism has shown the characteristics of transitional period, and it is worth referring to lead nowadays-cultural construction.