毛澤東是在一九一三年到一九一七年五年多的時間於湖南第一師範受楊昌濟親炙，在這段期間，中國發生了著名的新文化運動。雖然毛澤東直接繼承了楊昌濟的思想，但毛澤東並不是一成不變地保守師承，在新文化運動的新思潮與民初客觀環境劇烈變遷的激盪下，青年毛澤東繼承自楊昌濟的思想都有不同程度的變化。青年毛澤東的唯心主義思想可以說是在這種新文化運動的文化／救國氛圍中不斷地接受焠煉而成就其特色。

Mao Zedong has been taught by Yang Changji in 1913 to 1917 at the Hunan first normal school more than five years. There was the famous New Culture Movement in this period in China. Although Mao Zedong has directly inherited the Yang Changji thought, but Mao Zedong is not conservatively transits the discipling from his teacher., Young Mao Zedong inherits from the Yang Changji thought has the varying degree change under the impact of new ideological trend and fierce vicissitude environment at New Culture Movement. The young Mao Zedong's idealism thought is trained unceasingly under this atmosphere of culture /saves the nation at this New Culture Movement and get its characteristic.