Culture and "Anti-culture"——A View of the Inner Logic in Culture Development from Confucianism and Taoism

It is Taoism thought and Confucian thoughts that have formed Chinese national spirit and mediated the Chinese national culture disposition.Western culture maintains its vitality because of the negative spirit to reality.So the similarity Chinese and Western culture share is the formidable adjustment mechanism.Chinese national culture serves for the reality,yet the Western culture for the ideal,which is directly bound up with each geographical environment,influenced even dominated by its geographical environment.However,it will break away from these in the later development.Both will find their way out from the internal conflict,dissemination and infiltration.