江泽民同志曾说过“要坚持不懈地向全国人民特别是青少年进行爱国主义、集体主义、社会主义和自力更生、艰苦奋斗的思想教育以及革命传统教育。”在我国政治、经济、文化快速发展的今天,如何充分挖掘、提炼、利用红色文化资源的精髓,并将其科学地融人中学生思想政治教育,对于继承和弘扬中华民族传统文化,培养合格的社会主义接班人具有重要意义。一、红色文化的科学内涵红色文化是指中国共产党领导的中国各族人民在革命斗争和建设实践中所形成的伟大革命精神、优良革命传统及其载体。红色文化作为重要的思想政治教育资源,它的内涵十分丰富,主要包括三个层面的内容:物质层面上包括革命战争年代和社会主义建设与改革开放新时期所发生的 Comrade Jiang Zemin once said: “We must unswervingly carry out the ideological education of patriotism, collectivism, socialism, self-reliance and hard work and the education of revolutionary traditions to the entire Chinese people, especially young people.” In the rapid development of politics, economy and culture in our country, Today, how to fully tap, refine and make use of the essence of the red cultural resources and integrate them into the middle school students’ ideological and political education scientifically is of great significance for inheriting and carrying forward the traditional Chinese culture and cultivating qualified successors of socialism. I. Scientific Connotation of Red Culture Red culture refers to the great revolutionary spirit, excellent revolutionary traditions and carriers formed by the Chinese people of all ethnic groups under the leadership of the Communist Party of China in the course of revolutionary struggle and construction. As an important resource of ideological and political education, Red Culture has very rich connotations, mainly including three levels: the material level includes the era of revolutionary war and the socialist construction and the new period of reform and opening up