摘要/Abstract

中国早期维新思想家面对西方强势文化的挑战，一则出于“救亡图存”的使命感和责任心，一则出于对人类终极理想的价值追求，不遗余力地从传统中挖掘出具有近代价值及永恒意义的成分和元素，并对其进行了新的诠释和重构。早期维新派对传统资源的利用包含多个方面。本文选取了其中的四个重要方面——通变观念、民本思想、礼的学说、重商思想来加以论述。可以看到，早期维新派对传统的诠释与重构，事实上，赋予了传统以新的文化内涵和生命活力，促成了传统文化的近代转型。

Facing the challenges of a strong Western culture, the early Chinese reform group discovered a modern and eternal elements and Constituents from the tradition effortly because of the responsibility and the mission of saving country for survival. Besides, they interpreted and reconstructed the Chinese tradition, too. The early reformers used the traditional resources in many aspects.In this paper, I choosed four of the most important aspects to discuss ,which are the ideas of change, the Concepts of thinking people as the fundamental, the study of rites ,and the theories of thinking the commercial to be important.We can see that, the early reformers interpreted and reconstructed the Chinese tradition, which has given the tradition a new cultural connotation and vitality in fact. So that traditional culture transformed to a modern one.