The Research Of Zhou Enlai’s Construction Thought On People’s Cultural Life

Strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization is not only one of the main tasks of our party for a long time, but also the goal of our ideological and political education work. Therefore, how to make the socialist spiritual civilization construction stronger in the new period needs to learn from our predecessors combining the contemporary reality in order to create new ideas. Zhou Enlai, as the prime minister, has experienced a special period in China full of revolution and construction, in which he came up with his own unique ideas about socialist spiritual civilization construction. His thought on people’s cultural life construction is a glorious page in the history of our socialist spiritual civilization construction theory, which combined the reality at that time, and made correct ideas concerning the life and interests of most people by keeping in touch with them. His thought has important reference in today’s spiritual civilization construction. From the perspective of the people’s cultural life, studying Zhou Enlai’s socialist spiritual civilization construction thought needs to trace its theoretical origin, which includes two aspects, the theory of Marxism on the construction of socialist culture, and Mao Zedong’s thought about socialist cultural construction of China. Through the accumulation of the two aspects, Zhou Enlai formed his unique theory system on people’s cultural life construction. Concerning the reality at that time, and our own construction situation, his theory about people’s cultural life construction includes four aspects, that is cultural construction serving for the socialism, improving the quality of people’s spiritual life constantly, promoting people’s all-round development, and adhering to the mass line, which are all the essence of his thought. Through the four contents,we can make the conclusion that his thought has four characteristics, that is universal, life feature, practical and comprehensive. And seizing the features can ensure the right direction and take its essence when we study his ideas in order to highlight its values and make it applicable and practical for us.