Abstract: In order to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit,it is necessary to start out from grasping some important and basicrelations, and deepen the cognition and understanding of connotation of nationalspirit, so as to resolve some deep-level problems with which people are easilybewildered, namely, the width and the narrowness, the ancientness and the moderness, the oldness and the newness, the inside and outside, the name and the reality and so on.

Key words: carry forward, cultivate, the national spirit, theoretical problems

摘要： 弘扬和培育民族精神,有必要从把握一些重要的、基本的关系入手,加深对民族精神内涵的认识和理解,解决一些人们容易产生困惑的深层次问题,即:宽与窄、古与今、旧与新、内与外、名与实等。

关键词: 弘扬, 培育, 民族精神, 理论问题