The Rural Reconstruction Thought By Yan Dynasty

In the past 100 years, China's mass education, the rural re-construction, village managing, country construction, rural reviv-al, literacy education; various voices and actions are flourishing and full of vitality. This bends force, which advocates under-standing the true, I admiring Mr. James Yen.James Yen, who is a combination of Chinese culture and Western democracy, scientific thoughts and a student in America. He can pay attention to farmers and rural areas. In China rural ar-eas, he found the most critical issues which to be resolved. This is commendable. After the experience of France war and compete with the Chinese, James Yen return to implemention of mass ed-ucation campaign.In order to explore a road which using education to transform the society, James Yen leave the city and entry into the country, living with the poor peasant. Based on the practice and explora-tion, he successfully established a new educational model with Chinese characteristics. The purpose of model is to get rid of illit-eracy and to be a New Citizen. The core of the model is that peo-ple are the basis of the nation and the solid basis lead to prosper-ous society. The means of the model are as follows: art, liveli-hood, health, and civic education. The feature is that School, community and family should cooperation. The goal is to improve famers'itellegence and united force. All these could eradicate four Inferiority of stupid, poor, weak and private. From the daily life, James Yen realized that mass education is the highest goal. Only the person transformation could lead to social transformation, and ultimately the nation's reconstruction. In rural transformation, the most important realationshop is to get rid of poverty and to become rich. Knowledge is essential to the struggle for existence. The loser whose knowledge must poor and the winner's knowledge must rich. Nowdays, our nation are op-pressed by other nation and our people are ruined by warlord. The reason is that the average level of knowledge of our people is low. If we really have the determination to fight for the liberity of our nation and civil right, we should improve the average level of konwledge. Transformation of educational practice in any society are inseparable from the guiding principles of a theory, and theory building and must be based on scientific experiments, but experi-ments must have a scientific methodology. Reflecting the relation-ship of the theory, practice, and experiment is imminent.Nowadays, we urgently need to re-examine and research the Dr James Yen's rural reform ideas, which really take essence and enlightenment. This article aim to study the Yen rural reform ideas. I hope it will provide some enlightenment for the construc-tion of socialist new countryside.