Abstract: This interview focuses on the basic tendency and content of the study of cultural gene theory.Prof.Wu Qiulin,the interviewee,holds that biological gene study can only finish a half task of the complete study of human beings (biological man),and the other half task (study on cultural man) should be depended on the study of cultural gene.There are series of related important concepts in the study of cultural gene,such as cultural genetic code,self-consciousness,cultural soup,cultural origin,cultural fulcrum,cultural node,cultural derivative points,faith block,physical man,cultural man,and so on.

Key words: half man, self-consciousness, cultural origin, the study of cultural gene