Traditional Culture And Modern Urban Evolution Research In Shandong (1860-1937),

The city is the fruits of human civilization and also an external manifestation ofthe cultural development and carrier.Culture play an important role in promotingurban development,the city also has an important effect on the development ofculture,the two are muturally reinforcing relationship.China is a country which hassplendid culture and long-standing urban development history,in the long premodernChinese culture and city has formed peasant economy model of developmentdominated by Confucian.This model received it’s peak at the end of the ancientsociety,then began to be rigid.In modern times,with the invasion of western politics and economy andculture,the nature of Chinese society began to change,the ancient society of urbancultural development model was impacted.Objectively speaking,western countrieshave created the opportunity for the development of modern Chinese cities.But thisopportunity is wedged from the external,besides the domestic special situation,mixedwith Chinese and western and old and new factors,urban development in modernChina showed a complex type and situation.Shandong is the birthplace of Confucian which was deeply impacted bytraditional culture,the geographical conditions of mainland and sea made it have thesimilar urban development situation with modern China.Various type of urbandevelopment in modern China can be found in modern Shandong,so the study oftraditional culture and urban development in modern Shandong has typical sense.Because of the regional difference,the situation of urban and culture developmentwas diffenent.For example,fast,slow,even decline.Besides natural reasons,traditionalculture can explain it reasonably.When study the relation of traditional culture and urban development in modernShandong,western cultural factors can not be avoided.Western culture from theoutside to promote the development of modern Shandong cities,traditional culturebecame innovational under the development of modern Shandong cities.All in all,the influence of traditional culture on the development of modern Shandong cities became more and more weakly,the development of modern Shandongcities has palyed a guiding role on the innovation of traditional culture.It correspondswith the urban development law under the background of modern globalization andindustrialization.