薛福成的中西文化观对近代中国社会进步和文化变迁有着重大的影响。本文截取其中的重要一环———“考旧知新”说加以详细论述,充分肯定它的理论和实践价值及其局限性,在此基础上指出这一理论思考对于当代中国文化建设的重要借鉴意义。 Xue Fucheng’s views on Chinese and Western cultures have had a significant impact on social progress and cultural changes in modern China. This paper intercepts the important part --- “test the new knowledge” to be discussed in detail, fully affirmed its theoretical and practical value and its limitations, on this basis, pointed out that this theoretical thinking for the construction of contemporary Chinese culture Important reference.