The Historical Research Of The Construction Of The Social Mainstream Values In The Initial Stage Of New China(1949—1956)

Since the party’s sixth plenary of sixteenth session, building up the system of socialist core value has been stressed repeatedly by the Party Central Committee. The research on the mainstream Chinese society values also gradually becomes the research hotspot in the academic and theoretical circles.1949-1956is an important turning point in the development of Chinese history, the old and the new social transformation will inevitably impact on the social structure of the original. It can also cause significant evolution of the social mainstream values. Therefore, inspecting the construction of social mainstream values in the progress of Chinese social change and reconstruction from1949to1956, not only contributes to understanding the transition and reconstruction of Chinese society, but also provides a reference for the construction of the socialist core value system.The mainstream values of the society as early state was built on the special historical circumstances of new China. The great changes and a series of major historic tasks which consolidated the new people’s regime, unified chaotic social thinking, solved the mess inherited from old China and the realization of a new democratic society to a socialist society, built the domestic background of the early days’social mainstream values. It made the values a strong characteristic of times. Take Soviet Union as the head socialist camp’s influence and by the United States-led capitalist destruction constitute the mainstream of society values of international background. It made the values a strong characteristic of times. In this paper, through accessing to historical documents and combining with the social background for historical analysis, summarizes the early days of the social mainstream values and characteristics of the historical process. In the Initial Stage of New China, the people’s regime establishment first must have a guiding ideology, namely establishes the Marxism ideology domain the dominant position, and under this guiding ideology, for the realization the common ideal of building a socialist society, constructed and the historic task close union with at that time new China, adaptation society reforming needs to form the spirit of patriotism, the collective spirit, the arduous struggle, as well as take the arduous struggle, is industrious and economical as the core moral prevailing custom. Has had own construction characteristic in the construction process, mainly displays in:Persisted throughout the party leader and communist party member’s exemplary role, deepens the mainstream values gradually according to the different time main historic task the construction, the propaganda and the education method is bountiful, takes the thought culture domain mainstream values establishment to eagerly anticipate the function.The early days of the social mainstream values played an integral role in the consolidation of the new people’s regime, to promote the development of various social undertakings and to form a good social climate. However, due to the limit of historical conditions at that time, the construction of the social mainstream values still had some problems like the pan-ideological, simplistic and dogmatic. Based on the analysis of the background, content, the historical role and limitations of the values, we can derive some important insights, experience and draw lessons for contemporary socialist core value system. That the construction of social mainstream values should always adhere to the Party’s correct leadership, combine with the needs of social development and social practice and represent the direction of China’s advanced culture.