Study On Zhang Junmai's Cultural Thought

What is the essential of Chinese culture and Western culture, especially Chinese culture? and where is the way of Chinese culture? These are the two questions Chinese ideologist has always been concerned about since"The May 4th Movement". Culture and politics connect closely. Pay close attention to culture, in fact just pay close attention to politics, pay close attention to the future and national destiny of the country. Zhang junmai is a political activist and thinker devoted to the undertaking of revival of nationhood in modern China's history,while thinking the outlet question of China,he has stretched into the feeler thinking the cultural field and proposed the systematic opinion with distinct personality characteristics. Zhang junmai has published his ideas about these culture problems, which include philosophical view of culture, Chinese culture view and Western culture view. In Zhang's opinion, the world culture means the whole phenomena of spiritual life and material life in a society and the particularity of culture is its interdependence and independence. His cultural ontology is spiritual ontology, based on philosophy idea of the idealism. His cultural methodology has put emphasis on the importance of judging system of consulting in culture, maintain that treats and analyzes new or old culture by attitude, method of the doctrine that everything has two aspects, recommend keeping China's traditional culture on the basis of innovating; Zhang junmai expounded both the significative and the negative influence of Western culture to human civilization; As far as Chinese culture, although its merits were affirmed, its limitations were reveal mainly. Based on a comprehensive analysis to Chinese culture and Western culture, Zhang junmai gave a elucidation to the so called'real culture', whose essence is the integration and innovation of culture. The integration and innovation method is the soul of Zhang's thinking about culture, it can be used for reference and has a positive active meaning to the construction of socialistic advanced culture in our country currently.