阎锡山从小接受儒学文化的启蒙教育，使他深受中国传统思维方式、价值观念的深刻影响。他在辛亥革命后执掌山西军政大权时期进行的每一项政治事务都带有浓厚的儒学文化色彩，并把中国未来的发展寄托在复兴儒学上，由此也导致他难以正常实行孙中山三民主义改造中国的方针 Yan Xishan embraced the Confucianist enlightenment education from an early age, deeply influenced by Chinese traditional ways of thinking and values. Every political affair he took during the reign of Shanxi military and government after the Revolution of 1911 brought a rich Confucian culture and pinned China’s future development on the revival of Confucianism. As a result, it was difficult for him to carry out the Three-People’s Reform China’s principle