Red Culture is a concept with specific main body, historic background and political connotation of its emergence and development. It is of important theoretical and practical significance to the development of cultural cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics by properly understanding of the connotation and spiritual essence of Red Culture, by clarifying the difference and association of Red Culture with socialism culture with Chinese characteristics and extreme left wing ideology and by the carrying on and innovating based on social development and era demand in the process of its development.