As for the Neo-Confucians in the 20th century, intuition was one of their common concerns, though there were different interpretations and concrete uses of this concept in each system of the Neo-Confucian philosophy. In the course of his critique modernity along with instrumental reason as its key account, Mr. Liang Shuming elucidated his intuition theory with the aid of his cultural interpretation of Confucian and Buddhist classics. He held the view that the western value crisis resulted from the misuse of instrumental reason, and that this crisis made human beings and Mother nature seriously opposed in the debate of heaven and man, caused human beings to be concerned by the paradox of utilitarianism and individualism in the debates of collective and individual, and brought about a split and poverty in man’s inner world in the debate of principle and desire. In order to cure public morals, Liang maintained that we should seek spiritual resources from traditional Chinese culture. For this purpose, he interpreted independently the Confucian and Buddhist c1assicssuch as “Zhu-yi” and “Lun-yu”, etc. and developed the Buddhist theory of the Wei-shi sect, so that the core concept intuition and its new significance could be excavated. Liang considered that intuition first a metaphysical method, which is an important feature of ancient Chinese metaphysics; Secondly he thought that intuition was also the way of acquiring knowledge, which mainly referred to that of meanings and values, in its strict sense. As a resu1t, intuition became a basic principle of ethics in ancient China, because not only was the intuition of goodness related to establishment of virtuous ego, but also by virtue of its selfless feelings as the strong motive forces of moral actions it could spontaneously and willingly enter into the field of practice. Liang’s theory, by his own account, was once influenced by some elements of western psychology, which was one of the reasons that he was inclined to psychologize pan-intuitionalism. Liang’s intuition theory as a system was not perfect, but he was the first man to remind the academic circles that we should notice the important role played by intuition in traditional Chinese culture and philosophy, to probe into the concept of intuition systematically and comprehensively, and gradually eliminated the irrational ingredients from his former system of theory. All the above scholastic attainments are enough to prove that Mr. Liang was a pioneer in the philosophical movement of Neo-Confucianism.