Culture Recreation

The data and materials of Hanjialiang Village and Chaqishan Village, on which this research is based, comes from the field investigation of the Western Country Communities Construction Project, carried out by Sociology Department Sichuan University and Hong Kong PCD, in which I had participated from year 2004 to 2005; and the data and materials of Jianyang and Xindu county are all from the spot investigation by myself in 2002."CPA" (which means problems of Countryside, Peasants and Agriculture), is the object that none of the researchers studying China could avoid, because the problems of China is in fact of peasants, and vise versa. So how to develop agriculture, how to construct the countryside, and how to cultivate new peasants are the important problems we are facing.In this thesis, I believe, there are many limitations in the old styles of the economy oriented country communities construction, so we should seek a new approach with new vision, that is, we should start from culture, recreate the culture in countryside to realize the all-round development. The thesis argued the importance of culture to country communities construction from the value system, the subjective aspect, it suggest that culture is the value, attitude, belief, choices of the society and the understandings commonly held by the people.Taking the fields of economic culture, political culture and life style as examples, I argued the important impact and role of culture on the development of countrycommunities. Based on this point, the thesis generally analyzes the current situation of Chinese country community, and makes analysis of Hanjialiang Village and Chaqishan Village as case studies. By this analysis, I further proved the importance and necessity of culture recreation as the approach to country community construction.The aim of the study is to point out a new approach to country community construction, but to develop the approach as a model needs more study. The study suggests that the culture recreation model should be the combination of cultivating and recreation. Culture means the choice of value, belief and attitude, etc. and it becomes economic culture, political culture and life style when embodied in different social fields. The Recreation Model is the approach, measure and process to recreate the said factors of culture.The author thinks that culture recreation includes three aspects: economic culture recreation, political culture recreation and social life style reconstruction. The aim is to mold a new economic culture, which benefits the community economy development, a political culture that every one can participate, and a sustainable life style. To enlarge the education is the approach.Finally, we should also realize that the recreation of country community culture is a long hard process, which requires us to work together perversely.