Mao Zedong And The Statecraft Ideological Tradition In Hunan Academics

Statecraft Ideology, as a consistent ideological tradition in Chinese culture, is one of the basic spirits of Confucianism. In Jiaqing and Daoguang years of Qing Dynasty, when China was facing all kinds of internal and external problems, Statecraft Ideology, which had been quiet for nearly a hundred years, revived and formed a powerful social trend of thought. Hunan Academics became the important position of Statecraft Ideological tradition's reviving in modern times .Mao Zedong lived his young age in Xiangtan of Hunan. Latter he went to Changsha First Teacher's School to study. There he accepted the education from many Hunan scholars, including Mr. Yang Changji. The three major tradition of Hunan Academics (determined to focus on the science, focus on the reality of real learning, nationalism or patriotism)affected to a considerable extent the formation and characteristics of young Mao Zedong's cultural psychological structure,namely, on the one hand he pays great attention to resolve and will activity; On the other hand, the reality and statecraft Ideology trend was highlighted by him, and the both took patriotism and saving the people as the value guiding. So in young Mao Zedong's Cultural psychological structure, the tendency of statecraft Ideology was very prominent.Under the background of Chinese and Western culture conflicting and fusing during the May Fourth Movement, the tendency of statecraft Ideology helped Mao Zedong form his unique culture idea which emphasized to study national conditions, and to fuse Chinese and Western culture.After the May Fourth Movement, the Marxist world view gradually became Mao Zedong's dominant consciousness or "concentrated awareness" in his Cultural Psychology structure. At that time, statecraft Ideology as one of the traditional factors didn't disappeared, It became an important "support awareness" in turn, constituted the most important cultural genes for Mao Zedong to advocate Chinese Marxist Philosophy.