《阿Q正传》与《老人与海》作为中西文学的两个经典文本,他们在历史文化背景、文化困境、文化意蕴等三个方面有着不同的精神内涵。通过两种文本的比较来进行文化寻思以揭示出国民素质的提高、人的主体意识的恢复、民族精神的铸造和民族文化双向系统工程的建设等现实性问题。 As the two classic texts of Chinese and Western literature, The True Story of Ah Q and The Old Man and the Sea all have different spiritual connotations in three aspects: historical and cultural background, cultural predicament and cultural implication. Through the comparison of the two texts, the author conducts cultural quest to reveal the practical problems such as the improvement of national quality, the restoration of human subjective consciousness, the casting of national spirit and the construction of bi-directional systematic engineering of national culture.