Abstract: Formed in the process of exploring the law of socialist cultural construction with Chinese characteristics, Xi Jinping Thought on Culture has a broad historical vision and world view. Its exploration drives forward not only the inheritance and development of Marxist cultural view as well as its cinicization, but also the inheritance and innovation of China's outstanding traditional culture before eventually updating and modernizing it. Representing two combinations - that between inheritance and innovation and that between nationality and universality - Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is marked in both the “spirit” of Marxism and the “root” of China's outstanding traditional culture. The “second combination,” therefore, vividly shows the theoretical features of the integration of the root and the soul, the inheritance of the ancient and the modern, as well as the integration of the Chinese and the international.

Key words: Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, “the second combination”, China's outstanding traditional culture, cinicization of Marxism, dissemination and development of culture