“中体西用”是近代以来的一种文化主张,但不仅仅是一种文化主张,事实上它是近现代思想史上文化保守主义的价值观念与思维方式的缩略语。在辛亥革命以前,这种文化保守主义的价值观念与思维方式是带有资产阶级色彩的封建主义性质的;在辛亥革命之后,又是带有浓厚封建色彩的资产阶级性质的。本文拟以辛亥革命前“中体西用”思想的兴衰流变为基本线索,来说明这种文化保守主义的价值观念与思维方式以及它作为辛亥革命的思想对立面的实质。 In the modern history, it is not only a kind of cultural proposition, but in fact it is an acronym for cultural conservatism in the history of modern thought. Before the Revolution of 1911, this cultural conservatism’s values ​​and thinking mode were feudalist with bourgeois color. After the Revolution of 1911, it was a bourgeois character with a strong feudalistic flavor. This article intends to explain the cultural values ​​and thinking of cultural conservatism and its essence as the opposite of the ideology of the Revolution of 1911, based on the rise and fall of the thought of “Chinese culture, Western culture” before the Revolution of 1911.