The abbreviation of "taking middle school as the body and western learning as the use" The meaning of "body" is fundamental. "Use" refers to specific measures. "Chinese style and western use" is the core proposition of Westernization School on the relationship between Chinese and western cultures, and it is also the guiding ideology of Westernization education.

"Middle school" refers to Confucianism with three cardinal guides and five permanent members as its core, while "Western learning" refers to natural and social sciences such as business studies, pedagogy, foreign trade studies and the 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 western natural science and technology, such as making guns, repairing railways, mining and laying wires to save the ruling crisis.