The ancient culture of Shan Dong province is known as the culture of Haidai, which is a geographic sphere ranging from the East Sea all the way to Mount Tai. Yimeng culture, being a significant integral part of the culture of Haidai, is a regional culture nurtured by the Yishu river and Yimeng mountainous area. Yimeng culture, originating from the paleolithic culture created by the prehistoric Yiyuan ape men, has undergone a continuous development in aperennial course. As of yet, it can be divided into several phrases——the prehistoric, theWestern Zhou Dynasty to the Spring andAutumn Period, the Qin and Han Dyhasties, the Weijin and the South&North Dynasties, Sui Tang Song&Yuan Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the modem age and the contemporary age.The Chinese contemporary history witnesses the Sino-Japanese War and the Civil Liberation War successively, and the Yimeng region is one of the main revolutionary bases in our country. During the warring age, the Yimeng region has grown into a garrison station for the provincial leading bodies of the party, the government and the armed force, and the political and military center, thus become one of the most prosperous areas in terms of revolutionary atmosphere. And the culture shaped during that time span is called Yimeng Revolutionary culture.The Yimeng revolutionary culture is based on Yimeng traditional culture, taking revolutionary nature and advancement as its symbolic characteristics. The Yimeng soldiers and civilians'selfless sacrifice, the spirit of patriotism and nationalism is in full explanation. The Yimeng revolutionary culture has infinite richness in its thought and its various forms, mainly including Yimeng sino-japanese war ballads, Yimeng revolutionary literature, Yimeng folk art and the like. Detailed explanations and discussions are given in this article.The diffusion and development of Yimeng revolutionary spirit gets to be inherited and enriched. As a type of advanced culture, it has got the theoretical features of keeping pace with the times. In a new stage of new period, Yimeng Revolutionary Culture, acting as a new cultural ideology, serves the task of contributing socialist well-off society, and promotes our country's all-round development. With its connotative enrichment and denotative expension, it has become a significant theory basis, by which we a bide to construct socialist material and spiritual civilization. The modern theory of this curtule now in full bloom all around Yimeng district, is pushing a variety of economic culture toward an ouerall development, headed by business and commerce culture and tourist culture.Yimeng revolutionary spirit is considered to be the essence and quality of Yimeng revolutionary culture. Being endowed with rich historic accumulation, Yimeng culture gave birth to the revolutionary spirit of Yimeng. The body value of Marxism can be served as a theoretical norm of expanding on the modernity of Yimeng revolutionary spirit. The typical example and embodiment can be found in the "Sister spirit"(sister: the willes of the Red Army members). Stepping into a new period of our communist construction, we are supposed to promote and further develop its new revolutionary spirit which is cherished as "loyalty for our Party and Army","expanding a new sphere with exertions","making strenuous efforts to start a new business" and "be selfness and dedicatory" .The paper expounds such points as the origin and development of Yimeng culture, the formation and development of its revolutionary base , the exterior and progress of Yimeng Revolutionary Culture and Yimeng Revolutionary Spirits. It aims to study and grasp the culture's essence and features in practical and theoretical aspects. Welcome advice from experts and coterie on this paper. |