Mao Zedong's Study Of Traditional Culture

Mao Zedong is the son of Chinese people,and nourished by Chinese traditional culture.The traditional culture influenced Mao Zedong's whole life,so he has a strong passion of it.However,Mao Zedong just discard the dross and select the essence in this respect,instead of stick to the traditional culture totally.As a firm Marxist,he integrated the Marxism into Chinese national culture.So it's very important to study Mao Zedong's view of culture in the development of Chinese traditional culture and the building of social culture with Chinese characters.First,the text will start with the form and development of Mao Zedong's traditional culture view,then analyze the core of his view,the influence to Mao Zedong from traditional culture,and the track of Mao Zedong's traditional culture view.Based on the simple introduction of the culture core and the characters of traditional culture,the text will pay attention to the connation of traditional culture view in three respects: Confucian sages spirit and the thought of governing with acting style,practice spirit of Confucianism and dialectics and epistemology of Taoism.Thanks to these aspects,the paper can state the influence of the traditional culture to Mao Zedong.Among the characteristics of each period during Mao Zedong's thought development in the traditional culture,the paper will choose the stages of absorption and selection,summary and practice,new stage of exploration,wandering and conflicts to line the evolution track of Mao Zedong's thought in the traditional culture.Secondly,the paper will introduce the basic content of the traditional concept of Mao Zedong in four steps: Mao Zedong put a high value on traditional culture at peaceful age as well as war time;although traditional culture produced in the past,Mao Zedong didn't regard it as the opposite side of the modern civilization and he critically inherited the traditional culture with duality and complexity;Mao Zedong's attitude towards the traditional culture is to "take the essence,discard the dross",in other words,he summarized the historical experience to guide the revolution and national development;at last,the paper will discuss the value of traditional culture in governing the country and economic life,in military war,and in the cultural innovation.Thirdly,the paper also takes the historical criticism of Mao Zedong's traditional culture.According to the old democratic revolution period,the period of new-democracy and the period of socialism,the paper will divide the old democratic revolution period into passive acceptance stage and actively learning stage;the new-democratic period is divided into the May Fourth movement period,the revolution to the agrarian revolution period,the Anti-Japanese War and Liberation war period;and the socialist period is made up of the early founding period and the "cultural revolution" period.The paper will analyze different stages of Mao Zedong's criticism of traditional culture of the historical background in each historical stage in detail,and dig the causeof Mao Zedong's traditional cultural critique.At last,the paper will show the significant revelation brought by Mao Zedong's traditional culture view.After that,we can profoundly realize that Chinese traditional culture has lied a solid foundation for Marxism with Chinese characters.All the time,we should treat the Marxism dialectically and absorb the benefits from it,and realize the transformation of traditional culture using the stand,viewpoint and methods of Marxism.Mao Zedong's traditional culture view is theoretically significant to the development of traditional culture and culture construction nowadays,and it also shows a positive and far-reaching significance.