The Forming And The Characters Of Young Mao Tse-tung's Thought Under Xiang School

Mao Tse-tung is a great Marxian, but he has been nurtured deeply by Chinese traditional culture, and Xiang School, which is one breach of Chinese traditional culture and has regional characteristics, has effected the cultural character of Mao Tse-tung mostly. The author has systematically elaborated the forming and development of young Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and deeply explored his way to historical materialism and scientific socialism. Among these, the author points out that, as a cultural gene, Xiang School traditional culture has been embodied in young Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and his thoughts latterly formed could be considered as a successful attempt to carry out his theory. As the prehistory of Mao Tse-tung's thoughts, his early thoughts has provided the necessary conditions for its emerging. Correctly understanding young Mao Tse-tung's thoughts will be very enlightening for us to deeply study on Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and Xiang School traditional culture.At present, the academe has got research harvests to Xiang School traditional culture and young Mao Tse-tung's thoughts. Based on these harvests, this article sums up multiple meanings of Xiang School traditional culture, and induces the constitutive characteristics of the culture: patriotism and emphasizing statecraft. And it also explains the main historical donation that the culture has done to Mao Tse-tung'growth.The point of the article is based on the spirit lay of Xiang School traditional culture, it discusses the effect factors that help the form and development of young Mao Tse-tung's thoughts, such as patriotism, emphasizing statecraft. It points out that, as one of the representative of regional culture, young Mao Tse-tung's thought is a result from the directly affect of Xiang School traditional culture. Among them, especially the basic characteristics of Xiang School traditional culture, is the origin of Mao Tse-tung's thoughts which has been handing down generation by generation from Wang Chuanshan, Zeng Guofan, Tan Sitong and Yang Changji in the few hundreds years, gave Mao Tse-tung the very important materials to form his thoughts. Young Mao Tse-tung was deeply edified by Xiang School traditional culture. And the unique Xiang School traditional culture had a long and profound relationship with Mao Tse-tung's thought. Xiang School traditional culture was with him all the times and made a subtle impact on Mao Tse-tung's social emotion, the maturity of mind and the formation of his thoughts. As a result, the most prominent characteristics of young Mao tse-tung's Thought are intensely patriotism, stinking-highly will-activity and outstanding pragmatic spirits, etc, and these characteristics are high-strikingly coherent with the characteristics of Xiang School traditional culture. Undoubtedly, the characteristics above, which formed in Mao Tse-tung's young time , have greatly influenced Mao Tse-tung's Thought as it was forming. These characteristics have been showed on realism and the basic world view of Marxism, especially showed as the highly-united internationalism and patriotism, the ideally-linked the activity of will and the spirit of dealing with concrete matters and the tightly-combined theory and practice.