"Memory culture",as a distinctive cultural phenomenon in modern society,has its emergence and evolution deeply in-tertwined with the progression of modernity itself.The modern evolution of the essence of memory from individual psychological retro-spection to social and cultural construction,offers the theoretical grounding for the development of"memory culture".The profound crisis that memory experiences within the trajectory of modernity constitutes the reality basis for the emergence of"memory culture",with the two"memory booms"being the social representations of this crisis's intensifying accumulation.The temporal framework of modernity fundamentally engenders an existential crisis for memory,and the issue of memory is,in essence,a question of modernity."Memory culture"is a reflective culture of modernity and serves as a form of self-redemption for modern individuals facing the crisis of modernity.