Li Ze Hou’s Outlook On Traditional Culture

This thesis is to investigate Li Zehou’s outlook of traditional culture based onculture dimension of sinicization of Marxism philosophy.In Li Zehou’s opinion, traditional culture is derived and rationalized fromwitchcraft and persists the characteristic of the culture of witchcraft. Confucian, Taoist,strategist, yin-yang school and the other schools are the performance and product ofthe culture of witchcraft. With Confucian as trunk and other school as complementarywing, the culture of witchcraft was constantly improving and riched, formed thecultural psychological structure with practical rationality and optimistic attitude. Thiscultural psychological structure is optimistic to life and nature and emphasize themeaning of life and the home of heart is life itself. Under the shock of westcivilization, the limits of the cultural psychological structure is exposured. The limitssuch as experience, chaotic, closure, and circulating of the cultural psychologicalstructure is the product of Natural economy. Traditional culture should be modernizedand modernity problem is rised. Li Zehou provides the tactic called Xitizhongyong tosolve the problems both.Sinicization of Marxism need the combination of traditional culture. That is notonly mean Marxism should be with the form of Chinese and accepted by Chinese butalso the inner spirit of traditional culture should be fused with Marxism. Thiscombination is a dynamic organic and complex process. The process is finishing inpractice and serve for practice. Therefore, the comb of tradition culture is related tothe sinicization of Marxism. On modernity problem, sinicization of Marxism andmodernization of traditional culture is on the same way.