Abstract: Cai Yuan-pei came up with the theory of “Aesthetic Education Replacing Religion” in order to carry out a faith reconstruction project in the modern Chinese cultural context where the Li-Yue system of Confucianism had collapsed and also be lack of religious spirit.The specific characteristic of aesthetic spirit in the aesthetic education and the social-political environment of modern China determined the dual value nature in the faith construction logic of theory of ‘Aesthetic Education Replacing Religion’,which embodied in the following two groups paradox:secularity and transcendence,individuality and sociality.The paradoxical dual nature of faith value reflected the intellectuals’ mental state caused by cultural modernity in the course of faith reconstruction.

Key words: &ldquo, aesthetic education replacing religion&rdquo, ；Cai Yuanpei；aesthetic faith；dual nature