The Discovery And Reconstruction Of Village Tradition

Since the late 20 th century,with the completion of industrialization and urbanization in latecomer modernization countries,rural regeneration,rural revitalization and urban-rural coordination have become key issues in development.It is the inquiry and exploration of this problem that make the theory of new development gradually become the mainstream interpretation framework of rural development.The theory of new developmentalism has developed on the basis of questioning and criticizing the developmentalism whose core content is modernization theory.The biggest difference between the two is their different attitude towards tradition.Developmentalism negates tradition and regards tradition as the opposite pole of modernity,believing that modernization can only be completed by abandoning tradition.However,the new developmentalism attaches great importance to tradition,believing that tradition is an important basis for regional development,and relying on tradition can stimulate the endogenous power of local development.Therefore,the study of village tradition has important theoretical value and practical significance.In this paper,from the development perspective of sociology,it uses the new development of socialist theory resources,by qualitative research method,doing field research of Juxi painting village in Z province,with the help of "traditional and modern" and "endogenous-outgoing" to explain the relationship between framework,exploring this village,reconstructing the traditional,thus stimulating the inner mechanism of the regional energy.In essence,the practical exploration of Juxi painting village is a development model that relies on local resources,absorbing the participation of multiple subjects,and promoting local creativity under the interaction between inside and outside.The research on the development model of the village aims to reveal that rural development is not a stimulus-response process,nor a self-development process isolated from the outside world,but a process of activating local and local characteristics through internal and external interaction.The interaction between the upper and the lower realizes the integration of urban and rural areas.Based on empirical research and theoretical analysis,this paper focuses on the following four aspects:First,the dilemma of the development and transformation of Juxi painting village.Juxi village is a small mountain village with a history of more than 700 years.It has a lot of mountainous land and less cultivated land,and relatively scarce tangible resource endowment,but it has a profound historical and cultural value such as intangible village tradition.Since the reform and opening up,Juxi village has experienced a variety of choices in the transformation process,and has sought development breakthroughs in rural industry,citrus industry,labor export and other aspects.However,affected by various factors,it ultimately failed to achieve development goals.Thus turning to internal and emphasizing farmer paints,such traditional villages of historical and cultural resources rely on village farmer paints leader and backbone group,under the government-led absorbing broad participation,plural links,integration of multiple social resources,the construction of rural China art gallery,makes the "country of the future",connecting urban and rural areas,constantly activate the intrinsic motivation of the development of the village.Second,the traditional "discovery" of painting village.In the practice of the development of painting villages,the traditional "discovery" has two meanings: on the one hand,the rural tradition is a diversified system,including various forms,tangible or intangible,such as utensils,life and values.According to its traditional content and function,the village tradition can be divided into "main tradition" and "auxiliary tradition".The establishment or transformation of the main tradition can be regarded as the process of traditional discovery.On the other hand,in pre-industrial societies,tradition is generally a relatively static existence,flowing slowly over time.In the process of modernization,"development" has become the mainstream narrative.In this context,people no longer satisfy with the traditional function of stabilizing the order,but regard it as a native resource to promote the endogenous development power.In essence,the process of "discovering" tradition is also the process of activating tradition.In the history of Juxi village,farmer painting as a folk art is more of a marginal tradition.Under the dual promotion of folk and government,farmers’ painting and the development of Juxi Village are linked together,so that farmers’ painting has changed from a traditional cultural phenomenon into a regional development resource,from a marginal tradition to the main tradition leading the development of Juxi Village.In this regard,the traditional process of "discovery" is essentially a process of selection and activation of regional resources.Third,the reconstruction of traditional painting village.The essence of traditional reconstruction of painting village is to construct local creativity with local connotation.There are two ways to reconstruct the traditional painting village: one is to transform the cultural value of farmers’ painting into industrial value and realize the industrialization of farmers’ painting;the other is the traditional resources of the village leveraged by the farmer’s painting.The overall regional development is realized through the scene creation and future rural construction.The reconstruction of village tradition is actually a process of interaction between external factors and local endogenous resources,and a process of mutual influence and infiltration between government,market and countryside.In this process,the subjectivity of farmers has been highlighted to a certain extent,the relationship between the government.The countryside has been reshaped and the basic pattern of urban-rural integration development has been established.More importantly,the farmer’s painting is used as the link to construct a complex network of structure and action,that is,"painting chain".Fourth,the development thrusts under the action of vertical and horizontal correlation.The new developmentalism advocates a new paradigm of integrating "top-down" and "bottom-up" rural development.The vertical and horizontal links constructed in the process of traditional discovery and reconstruction has become the driving force for the development of this painting village.The so-called vertical link refers to the structural linkage between the government and the painting village,that is,under the joint action of top-down thrust and bottom-up suction of political achievements,the grassroots government continuously strengthens its investment in the painting village.The township of G government in the practice of painting village building embedded deeply,the surface is affected by the government at a higher level tend to take the initiative to choose.But the link is covered from bottom to top,farmer paints through active close to the government,through its own efforts in the field of farmer paints a certain achievements and influence production record,for the government to attract the government strengthen the concern and support.The so-called horizontal link mainly refers to the social connection,including the connection within the rural society and the connection between urban and rural areas.The core of social connection is the linking ability,which connects the dispersed action subjects together by weaving a network of relationships.At the same time,the individual development goals are integrated with the overall development goals of the countryside,enabling actors to promote the overall development of the countryside while realizing their personal goals.The linking ability of the painting village is mainly reflected in the following aspects: strong cohesion based on endogeneity;linking diversified social subjects;certain social integration force and so on.In general,the discovery and reconstruction of tradition in Juxi painting village is a local practice in line with new developmentalism,which breaks the structure of poor attachment between urban and rural areas,forming a development community and reshaping rural publicity.Therefore,it stimulates endogenous power and provides a possibility for coordinated and sustainable development of economy and society.But at the same time,it should be noted that the development of painting village is the result of cooperation,competition and the game with the government and multiple market subjects relying on local tradition.In this process,endogenous and exogenous forces are not balanced,which inevitably leads to a series of problems,such as the tendency of "de-embedding" between village tradition and rural production and life,including local compatibility,rural "aphasia",etc.Therefore,it is necessary to establish a mechanism of delegating power and enabling power to enhance the autonomy and self-development ability in rural areas and to improve the mechanism of interest distribution and to promote the coordination and linkage of various forces as well as to improve the identification mechanism,to enhance the overall cohesion.