Correctly understand which two kinds of wrong thoughts or tendencies must be guarded against when treating China traditional culture.

To correctly understand and treat China's traditional culture, we must be alert to two wrong thoughts or tendencies: cultural revivalism and historical nihilism.

On the issue of traditional morality, we should oppose two wrong ideas. One is the trend of cultural retro-ism, which holds that China lags behind because of the loss of traditional culture, especially Confucian traditional culture. Therefore, "return to nature and create new ideas." The other is historical nihilism, which holds that China's traditional morality has lost its value and significance today as a whole and cannot meet the needs of China's modernization, so it must be completely denied.

Both of them separate the relationship between individuality and individuality, abstraction and concreteness, generality and individuality, universality and particularity. When treating China's traditional morality, the theory of restoring ancient ways only recognizes its generality and universality, but denies its individuality and particularity, and completely equates traditional things with modern things, whether it actually determines the history and development of morality.

Correctly treat the moral tradition of the Chinese nation;

The moral tradition of the Chinese nation is a contradiction with distinct duality. Belonging to the essential part, showing a positive, innovative and progressive side; The part that belongs to the dross shows a negative, conservative and backward side.

To correctly treat the moral tradition of the Chinese nation, we must adhere to the Marxist stand, viewpoint and method, which can neither be completely affirmed nor completely copied, nor completely denied nor completely abandoned.

According to whether it is conducive to the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the construction and formation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's moral system, the maintenance of the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people, and the cultivation of new socialist "four haves", we should make a good trade-off and creative transformation.