Three-dimensional Reflection on Xi Jinping Thought on Culture: The Theoretical Origin, Historical Vein and Realistic Basis

Abstract: Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is the latest achievement of the development of Marxism in the cultural field and the action guide of China's cultural construction in the new era. In order to deeply study Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, we must correctly understand the theoretical source, historical vein and realistic foundation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. As far as the source of its theory is concerned, Xi Jinping Thought on Culture takes Marxist cultural theory as the “soul”, Chinese excellent traditional culture as the “root”, and the excellent achievements of human civilization as the mirror. In terms of its historical vein, Xi Jinping Thought on Culture comes down in a continuous line from the CPC’s cultural thought in the period of the new-democratic revolution, inherits and develops the CPC’s cultural thought in the period of socialist revolution and construction, continues to extend the CPC’s cultural thought in the new period of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and succinctly sublimates the CPC’s cultural thought since the new era. As far as the basis of its reality is concerned, the formation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is inseparable from the significant improvement of the comprehensive quality of Chinese people, the continuous improvement of social civilization and the steady growth of national cultural soft power.