Abstract: Under the discussion of the possibility of universal value, the paper focuses on the fundemental spirits, basic features, core value and its universality of Confucianism and its new modern form- democratic humanism. The author holds that Confucian spirit is moral humanism with subjectivity, completeness, pragmaticness and openness; its core values are benevolence, harmony, trust and credit, and moderation. The new thinking mode is a kind of cultural philosophy guided by multiple harmonious cultures, that is, democracy and benevolence as body, technology, science and legal system as tools.