Li Dazhao is a pioneer of the Chinese Communist movement and one of the main founders of the Communist Party of China. He is also a famous scholar who "carries moral principles with iron shoulders and writes articles with skillful hands." Li Dazhao has in-depth research and thinking on Chinese culture, and strives to explore the path for the inheritance and development of Chinese culture. His understanding of the value of traditional culture, his confidence in Chinese culture, and the dialectical relationship between Marxism and Chinese culture are precious ideological assets in the history of the party and have important enlightenment significance.

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Li Dazhao has received traditional cultural education since his childhood. He is deeply influenced by traditional culture and has a profound understanding of Chinese culture. His first grandfather, Li Ruzhen, taught him to read enlightenment books such as "The Thousand-Character Classic" and "Three-Character Classic" since he could speak. In 1895, Li Dazhao entered a private school and began to receive formal and systematic traditional cultural education. The first two teachers were both well-known in the countryside for their erudition, and the third teacher was Hongru Huang Yutang from the Imperial College. Their careful teaching made Li Dazhao a famous "literary boy". Li Dazhao was familiar with Confucian classics such as the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics", and "wrote good poems and essays" (Xu Quanxing: "Study on Li Dazhao's Philosophical Thoughts", Peking University Press, 1989 edition, p. 2), laying a solid foundation in traditional culture. . After the Qing government implemented the New Deal, new schools were established in various places. Li Dazhao entered the new school Yongpingfu Middle School in 1905. Here, he began to come into contact with Western scientific knowledge. At the same time, he continued to study Confucian classics, and his understanding of traditional culture and Western culture continued to deepen.

It is precisely because of long-term systematic study and profound understanding of Chinese culture that laid the foundation of Li Dazhao's cultural outlook. In Li Dazhao's view, Chinese civilization "has made great contributions to world civilization" ("The Complete Works of Li Dazhao", Volume 2, People's Publishing House, 2013 edition, page 312). Over the past thousands of years, the Chinese nation has made great contributions to the development of world civilization. Whether it is Confucianism and perfect institutional systems, as well as scientific and technological inventions and traditional Chinese medicine, they have become dazzling treasures in the treasure house of world civilization. The Chinese nation has a cultural character of constant self-improvement. Although it has gone through disasters, Chinese civilization has never been interrupted. As Li Dazhao said, "The way of heaven has not changed, but caste still exists" ("The Complete Works of Li Dazhao", Volume 1, page 244), which contains his deep confidence and praise for Chinese culture. .

Li Dazhao, who was deeply nourished by traditional culture, practiced the Chinese nation’s cultural values ??of benevolence, love, loyalty and trust throughout his life. He once wrote the famous "Four Sentences of Hengqu" for Liang Rongruo, a student of Beijing Normal University: "Establish a mind for the heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the unique knowledge for the saints, and create peace for all generations." ("The Complete Works of Li Dazhao", pp. Volume 3, page 56) Li Dazhao not only said this, but also did it. In his youth, when faced with the troubled motherland, he showed an innocent heart of caring about the country and its people. After the Revolution of 1911, he struggled to express his "hidden worries" and "great sorrow" in the face of the feudal warlords' usurpation of political power and the fact that the government and political system were in name only. He was concerned about the country's worries and the people's sorrows. He always closely linked his knowledge with the fate of saving the country and the nation, and made up his mind to do it for