Abstract：The paper borrows "humanism" from West to illustrate Chinese classical ideology and culture.The enlightening trend of thought happening in late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, should be properly called humanism, which was represented by Li Zhi, Tang Xian zhu, Dai Zhen,Cao Xue qin and so on. Although humanism trend didn't produce revival of literature as occurred in the west,it originated modern culture in China. At present there are many different opinions over the understanding of "humanism" in Chinese academia.A lot of scholars summarize the spirit of confucianism, even the spirit of Chinese culture as "humanism". This paper defines the word "humanism" necessarily and makes some discrimination and analysis.
