From "keeping records by tying knots" to "adding up with counting rods" and from data model to data governance, human beings have experienced a long history of data cognitionand application, and human civilization has also undergone radical changes during the time, Tian Ye and Yuan Zushe wrote in the 10thissue 2022 of the Journal of Humanities. It can be seen that the cultural implications of data have been interpreted and rewritten in varying degrees in different historical periods. The cultural probe in terms of big data is an important foundation for human spiritual life in the era of big data, and also the value support for the rationality and legitimacy of technical governance. The survival mode called for in the era of big data is a brand new survival paradigm established based on the logic of public value; under such a paradigm, the people-oriented principle, the limit law of creative development and the moderation law of data-based survival are followed, and cultural discipline and educational guidance are imposed in accordance with the value, ethics, politics and economy, so as to build a low-energy, fine-grained and multi-dimensional pattern for healthy evolution of big data.