Starting with the concept of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", this paper analyzes the westernization school's thought of "Chinese style and western use" and talks about your understan

Starting with the concept of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", this paper analyzes the westernization school's thought of "Chinese style and western use" and talks about your understanding of the relationship between tradition and modernity. The guiding ideology of Westernization Movement is "middle school as the body, western learning as the application", referred to as "Chinese style and western application". It is the guiding ideology throughout the Westernization Movement. According to the understanding of the mainstream concept of Westernization School at that time, the so-called "middle school as the body" simply means learning skills from the West, represented by Confucius and Mencius in China, and the ideology and culture of China's feudal monarchy system based on "ethics". The purpose of "western learning spreading to the east" is to "learn from foreigners and master their skills to control foreigners" In the eyes of these bureaucratic scholars who have experienced China's traditional classics, appreciated Confucian moral etiquette, adhered to feudal ethics and tried their best to maintain autocratic social order, having "skills" cannot change the humble category of foreigners, and the object of "learning" is "foreigners' skills" rather than "foreigners" themselves.

"Learning from foreigners to control foreigners" summarizes the understanding, attitude and action program of advanced figures in feudal rulers to western modern civilization in extremely concise language. "Learning from foreigners" is to establish our own shipbuilding artillery factory, learn from the western shipbuilding artillery technology and combat methods under new equipment, with the aim of maintaining our own feudal rule;

Understand the relationship between tradition and modernity;

In terms of time, tradition and modernity are two corresponding periods. Productivity and relations of production are two aspects of social production, and their organic unity constitutes the mode of production. In the mode of production, productivity is the content and production relations are the form; Productivity determines production relations, and production relations react on productivity. The development of productive forces is the reason for the change of production relations and the basis for the replacement of old and new production relations; Whether it can promote the development of productive forces is the fundamental criterion to judge whether the relations of production are advanced or backward. The relations of production must be suitable for the development of productive forces, which is the universal law of the development of human society. In a certain period in the past (traditional society), the relations of production adapted to the development of productive forces and gradually established corresponding social relations of production. With the development of productivity, it has entered the corresponding modern society, and the traditional relations of production no longer adapt to the development of productivity, and gradually become the shackles of productivity development. In order to liberate the productive forces, the society at this time either changed (reformed) the relations of production internally or broke (invaded) externally.