曾国藩兼有中国传统文化化身和中国近代文化主要代表的双重身份。曾国藩文化思想的内容十分丰富，包括“笃信程朱”的理学思想、“兼容并蓄”的百家思想、“务实求朴”的经世致用思想、“中体西用”的洋务教育思想、“自强求富”的近代科技思想等诸多方面。曾国藩文化思想以“义理为体、经世为用”“内圣修身为体、外王经世为用”“宋学为体、汉学为用”“儒学为体、百家为用”“中国传统文化为体、西方近代文化为用”，具有维新性与守成性的双重特点。洋务运动开启了中国近代化的历史车轮，而曾国藩文化思想在洋务运动中发挥着独特的作用，曾国藩文化思想在一定程度上推动了中国政治、经济、军事、教育等方面的近代化进程。当然，由于曾国藩的文化思想具有很大的守成性，对于推动中国近代化的历史进程是有限度的。随着内忧外患的加剧，推动中国近代化进程的历史重任最终落到了中国无产阶级的身上，中国共产党将马克思主义的基本原理与中国社会的具体实践相结合，从而为近代中国社会转型开辟了广阔的前景。

Zeng Guofan has the dual identity of the embodiment of traditional Chinese culture and the main representative of modern Chinese culture. Zeng Guofan's cultural thought is very rich in content, including the theoretical thought of "believing in Cheng Zhu", the idea of "inclusiveness" of the hundred schools of thought, the thought of "pragmatic and simple" and applied to the world, the idea of "using the Chinese body and the West" on foreign affairs, and the modern scientific and technological thought of "self-improvement and seeking prosperity". Zeng Guofan's cultural thought is based on "righteousness as the body, the world as the use", "the inner saint cultivation as the body, the outer king as the world", "Song learning as the body, Sinology as the use", "Confucianism as the body, hundred schools of thought as the use", "traditional Chinese culture as the body, Western modern culture as the use", with the dual characteristics of restoration and conservatism. The Western Affairs Movement opened the historical wheel of China's modernization, and Zeng Guofan's cultural thought played a unique role in the Western Affairs Movement, and Zeng Guofan's cultural thought promoted the modernization process of China's politics, economy, military and education to a certain extent. Of course, because Zeng Guofan's cultural thought has great conservatism, it has limited limits to the historical process of promoting China's modernization. With the intensification of internal and external troubles, the historical responsibility of promoting the process of China's modernization finally fell on the Chinese proletariat, and the Communist Party of China combined the basic principles of Marxism with the specific practice of Chinese society, thus opening up broad prospects for the transformation of modern Chinese society.（AI翻译）