It was first put forward by Feng Guifen, and then systematically expounded by Zhang Zhidong in "Persuasion". "Zhong" refers to the three cardinal principles and eight aims, namely, Ming De, Xin Min and Supreme Good; Confucianism with discipline, knowledge, honesty, honesty, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world as its core. "Western learning" refers to social sciences such as natural science, business science, education, foreign trade and public law of nations introduced into China in modern times.
On the basis of maintaining the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, he advocated adopting specific methods of natural science, technology, culture and education, such as gun-making, railway construction, mining and wire laying, to save the ruling crisis. ?
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First, China's sports and western thoughts have played a role in emancipating the mind. The legalization of "Chinese style and western style" has broken the centralization of middle schools and changed the backward, closed and rigid situation in China.
Second, the idea of "combining Chinese and western" has played a role in strengthening national integration. Under the impact of colonial aggression, if a nation does not want to become a colony, it must strengthen cohesion and improve integration.
Third, the application of Chinese and western cultures gives people new enlightenment, that is, learning foreign things must be combined with the reality of their own country. The original intention of using Chinese style and western style did not have this content, but its thinking logic objectively inspired people.
After the Westernization Movement, there was no market for refusing to learn from foreign countries blindly, but the idea of total westernization was also rejected by most people. It has gradually become a rule for adults to learn foreign things in combination with their own reality. It was a feasible transition model at that time. It not only opened the social atmosphere, provided a theoretical basis for the introduction of western learning, but also contributed to the beginning of China's modernization.
Fourth, "Chinese style and western use" has greatly opened the door to the spread of western learning. Although the middle school is physical, since the western learning was put into use, it has openly entered the traditional framework and achieved legal status, which is conducive to breaking the traditional cultural and psychological barriers that citizens reject foreign new things.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-middle school as the body, western learning for use