关键词: 恩格斯, 传统文化, 科学态度, 中华优秀传统文化

Abstract: Focusing on the issue of “how to understand traditional culture, how to treat traditional culture, and how to innovate and develop traditional culture”, Engels explained the stand, viewpoint and method of treating traditional culture, and formed a scientific attitude with criticism, transformation and development as the basic content. We should grasp its critical attitude accurately on the basis of clarifying the basic connotation of “two complete breaks”, clarifying the relationship between traditional culture and traditional ideas, and adhering to the dialectical negative view; systematically sort out its transforming attitude on the basis of following the contradictory movement of productive forces and production relations, “starting from the existing ideological materials”, and taking into account the “common historical background”; and systematically sort out its transforming attitude on the basis of construction and development Based on the advanced culture of the proletariat and following the objective law of cultural development, we should fully understand its development attitude. A deep understanding of Engels' scientific attitude towards traditional culture is of great value to systematically answer such questions as “how to develop and discard all human traditional culture.

Key words: Engels, traditional culture, scientific attitude, Chinese excellent traditional culture