From a cultural perspective,utopian thought as a spiritual product of human society provides reference for human to reflect on and learn from social development,although its content is illusory.The emergence of utopian ideas is pragmatic,contingent and inevitable,which suggests that human consider the idea of progress as the transcendent nature of an ideal goal.Utopian ideology has a double figurative,a combination of“elite”ideology and popular imagination,of social ideals and individual aspirations,of illusory appearances and the real.Much of the content and form of utopian thought is illusory,but its impact on reality is tangible.The superstition of utopian ideas is different from Marxist theoretical self-confidence,while the spiritual guarding in the theoretical“nostalgia”is also different from the conscious expression of scientific socialist ideas.We should understand the past,present and future of utopian thought in terms of history and reality,with the attitude that the world will not automatically satisfy man,and that man must transform the world by his practical actions.