The essence of a university is a cultural institution with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions. It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique university culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice through historical accumulation, self-efforts and the influence of external environment.
Universities have a history of thousands of years, which can be traced back to its birth, mainly from Germany, Britain and other countries. Modern universities in China originated in the west, and western modern universities gradually evolved from European medieval universities, British universities and German universities to American universities. No matter which era, universities are the creative inheritance of previous universities, not the negation.
The original meaning of the word "university" is universality, wholeness, cosmopolitanism and cosmology. Since its birth, the spiritual temperament of a university is a blend of all rivers and cultures, and it is in this blend of cultures that universities continue to develop. In today's world, the integration of culture, economy and politics makes the power of culture more and more deeply cast in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of the nation, and the position and role of culture in the comprehensive national strength is more and more prominent. Therefore, in contemporary times, university culture must be the result of the blending of local culture and international culture, and it is the dialectical unity of localization and internationality.