The material culture and spiritual culture in the Ming Dynasty were flourishing together.The Zhengde Period was the watershed of cultural change in the Ming Dynasty.The dynamic change of culture in the Ming Dynasty can be divided into three peri-ods:the first was the syncretism of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and the conservative period of early Ming culture;the second was the rise of Wang Xue and the formative period of the civic culture;the third was the flourish of the"solid learning"and the internal re-flection period of the intellectual class.The Ming Dynasty was one of the most dynamic,diverse and liberating times,with diverse cul-tural scenes,which was shaped into a"Ming-type culture"characterized by individuality,humanism and civic culture.In the histori-cal process of modernization,the Ming culture was not only the beginning of the modernization of Chinese culture,which had the same aspects with the western cultural process,but also had a unique personality different from that of others,and displayed localized char-acteristics in the process of modernization.