“中体西用”是“中学为体,西学为用”的简称,中学,即中国传统文化,尤指儒家的纲常名教;西学,即西方资本主义文化,在狭义上,主要指西方科学技术。这一主张,既表述了中学与西学的结合,也规定了两者的区别。最早提出以西学辅之以中学的是名士冯桂芬,1861年,他在《校邠庐抗议》中说:“以中国之伦常名教为原本,辅以诸国富强之术。”此后,包括洋务派、早期维新派以及以康有为为代表的维新派在内,凡谈时务、讲西学的 Middle school is the body, Western learning is the use of “short, middle school, that is, traditional Chinese culture, especially the Confucian scholarly nobility; western learning, that is, Western capitalist culture, in the narrow sense, Mainly refers to Western science and technology. This idea not only expresses the combination of high school and western learning, but also stipulates the difference between the two. The earliest proposition that Western schools were supplemented by secondary schools was the famous Feng Gui-fen. In 1861, he said in ”The School of Confucianism and Protest in Nanjing“: ”It is based on the famous ethics of China and supplemented by the prosperity of all nations.“ ” Including the Westernization School, the early reformists and the reformists represented by Kang Youwei, who talk about the current affairs and speak Western studies