本文通过对400余名东南亚华人的调查，了解该群体对中华传统文化的认知程度与方式等问题。调查结果显示，东南亚华人对中华传统文化有较强的认知愿望；对不同类型文化的认知有较大差异，其中节俗类、美德类和饮食类的认知情况最好，中医类和科技类的认知情况欠佳；他们对中华传统文化的认知度与其文化背景有关。研究还发现，东南亚华人接触中华文化的渠道不多、内容不够丰富多样。从全球化趋势与中国长远发展的目标来看，我们应该进一步培养东南亚华人的中华文化素养。
Based on the investigation of more than 400 ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia，this paper tries to find out the degree and manner of their cognition of Chinese traditional culture. The findings are as follows：（1）the subjects have a strong cognitive desire for Chinese traditional culture；（2）their cognition of different types of culture is quite different，among which the cognition of traditional festival culture，virtue and diet is the best，and the cognition of traditional Chinese medicine and science & technology is not so good；（3）there is a correlation between the cognition of Chinese traditional culture of the new generation of Chinese and their cultural background；（4）the study also found that the channels through which they came into contact with Chinese culture were not rich enough and varied enough. In view of the trend of globalization and the long-term development of China，we should further cultivate the Chinese cultural literacy of the new generation of ethnic Chinese.
