From the perspective of cultural inheritance, this paper analyzes how we should retain the memory of our ancestors and the root answer of our nation

① "take its essence and discard its dross", criticize and inherit, and make the past serve the present. In the face of traditional culture, we should dialectically understand its role in real life and distinguish the essence and dross. We should continue to maintain and carry forward the positive contents in traditional culture that meet the requirements of social development; We should consciously transform or eliminate the backward and decadent contents in traditional culture that do not meet the requirements of social development. (2) innovation, innovation. Inheritance is the necessary premise of development, and development is the inevitable requirement of inheritance. They are two sides of the same process. Develop on the basis of inheritance and inherit in the process of development. This is cultural inheritance. In the process of inheriting the traditional culture, we should grasp the relationship between them, critically inherit the traditional culture, constantly bring forth the old and innovate, and create a new form of socialist new culture with the spirit of the times and China characteristics.