Theory Of Mao Zedong On The Critical Inheritance Of Chinese Traditional Culture

Mao Zedong Thought is an important theoretical achievement of the combinationof Marxism and Chinese traditional culture. Its establishment and development arebased on Marxism as the main theoretical source, and also inseparable from theabsorption,reference and promotion of Chinese traditional culture. It is because ofMao Zedong’s basing on Chinese reality, the external modifying Marxism withChinese traditional characteristics language and the inner filling with Chinesecharacteristic elements, that establish the basis for Marxism‘s spreading anddevelopment in China. On this point, Mao Zedong,as a Marxist, his inheriting anddeveloping the Chinese traditional culture, promotes the Marxism’s ChineseCharacterization Process, which made Mao Zedong thought featured with bothMarxism and Chinese characteristics.So, an accurate and comprehensive analysis on the relationship between MaoZedong thought and Chinese traditional culture, especially Mao’s critical absorption,inheritance and innovation from Chinese traditional culture, is not only helpful tograsp Chinese5000-year history and culture, but also helpful to have a betterunderstanding of the Chinese characteristics and realistic significance of MaoZedong thought, and to promote the Marxism’s Chinese Characterization Process. Inthis article, the author analyses the connection among the values, the thinking routinesand thinking modes of Chinese traditional culture and the Marxism. Basing on thisanalysis, the article analyses in detail Mao’s absorption and surmounting of Chinesetraditional thoughts,such as seeking truth from facts, the supremacy of public and thetraditional theory of knowing and doing, and then discuss the enlightenments ofMao’s inheriting traditional culture with criticism. We hope all these above analysiscan provide a theoretical reference for the Construction of socialist culture...