儒学之所以为人学除了春秋社会的特定历史原因 ,还有更深刻的文化动因。文章因此追溯到人类文明的门槛 ,从中西社会不同的文化进程中发现 ,与以人与自然的关系为思考对象的西方文化不同 ,人与人的关系成为中国文化的思考对象和起点 ,其典型表现是西周的礼乐文化 ,而礼乐文化作为孔子思想的源头和反思对象 ,决定了由孔子创立的儒学的人学性质。文章还从比较的视角揭示了儒学中“人”的存在特性 The reason why Confucianism learns humanity In addition to the specific historical reasons of the Spring and Autumn Period society, there are still more profound cultural motives. So the article goes back to the threshold of human civilization and found out from the different cultural processes of Chinese and Western societies that the relationship between people and people is the starting point and the starting point of thinking of Chinese culture as opposed to the Western culture that takes the relationship between man and nature as the object of consideration. The performance is the rites and music culture in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The ritual music culture, as the source and reflection object of Confucianism, determines the humanistic nature of Confucianism founded by Confucius. The article also reveals the existence characteristics of “human” in Confucianism from a comparative perspective