Abstract: WANG Yuan-hua's recognition of WANG Guo-wei and CHEN Yin-que as his value origin can be examined from two perspectives. From the perspective of the microscopic complex of Tsinghua lineage, WANG Yuan-hua's tie to WANG Guo-wei and CHEN Yin-que is legendary. When WANG lived in the South Yard of Tsinghua University with his parents before the age of eight, WANG Guo-wei and CHEN Yin-que happened to be his close neighbors. In his late years, WANG theatrically returned to his “childhood” with a deep recognition of WANG Guo-wei and CHEN Yin-que as the value origin of personality symbols. From the perspective of Chinese lineage of learning in the past century, this is related to the macro narrative of modern intellectual history. Since all of the three representatives(LIANG Qi-chao, WANG Guo-wei and CHEN Yin-que) who marked the modern development of the academic tradition had Tsinghua background, it is legitimate to claim that Tsinghua lineage is the modern paradigm of Chinese lineage of learning. Therefore, WANG's recognition of WANG Guo-wei and CHEN Yin-que as his value origin after his “third reflection” in the 1990s naturally made him a person who transmits the one-hundred-year academic tradition from the 20^th century to the 21^st century. WANG Guo-wei, CHEN Yin-que and WANG Yuan-hua played different roles in promoting the development of the academic tradition in the past century: WANG Guo-wei was an “academic hermit” who dwelled poetically in the late Qing Dynasty; CHEN Yin-que shifted his role from an “academic hermit” to an “academic adherent of the former period” after the revolution; and WANG Yuan-hua transmitted modern tradition in the cross-century period as a “post-adherent”.

Key words: Tsinghua lineage of learning, WANG Yuan-hua, WANG Guo-wei, CHEN Yin-que, recognition of the value origin, inheritor