The values include the goals and realizing way,meanwhile these two aspects are related with certain conception of history.As far as Chinese is concerned,not only establishing socialism value ideal but realizing this ideal are concerned with the historical materialism.In order to achieve substantive progress in the value research,we should summarize the changed experiences and lessons of the core value system in modern time,grasp the relation between historical materialism and values accurately,and promote the value research based on historical materialism consciously.The problem between the universalism and particularism in the discussion on the universal values,which is proposed by domestic and foreign scholars,should be resolved from the modern social history angle.