"Stirring" And "Not Stirring":the Role Of Human Feelings In Land Reform

"A grasp of mundane affairs is genuine knowledge,while understanding of worldly wisdom is true learning." In a Chineserural community,this sentence is the most appropriate way to describe worldly wisdom of thesociety.Among acquaintances,people not only talk about their feelings,but also emphasize the mutual communications and kindness,and it is just like an old Chinese saying:Friendship cannot alwaysstand on one side,and this thought has been spread by Chinese for thousands of years,which may beaffected by Chinese Confucian culture and traditional rural society culture.In 1949,the land reformled by the government not only made Chinese poor peasants turn over and master their own destiny,but also naturally infiltratedthe rights of the country into local society and the local communities including the majority of the members through a series of movements.To some extent,in the process of theland reform,the infiltration of state power also destroyed the traditional cultural network,andthere also formed a pair of inevitable contradictions with the original acquaintances society,namely:the contradiction between rigid class relations with blood and the contradiction between geopolitical formation and the traditional human relationships.Since human movement itself has a complex mechanism and significant geographical differences,so in this special period,is the state power completely replacing the blood and geopolitical and absolutely controlling the local communities?Or national power attaches to local communities,but actually in form,is it still subject to traditional culture?Or both of them reach a mutual restraintin a way,and ultimately achieve a balance?Therefore,the relationship between land reform and human including theacquaintance is particularly important.In this paper,combining the local documents,the author studies and explores the role of acquaintance in the process of the land reform ofa certainvillage in Xundian County through some oral history based on interviews with more than a dozen of elderly witnesses.By analyzing the situation of different people in the process of the pre-land reform,during-land reform,after land reform,the author carries out comparisons and analysises of the interpersonal relationship before land reform,the class division and violence during land reform the political and economicrelationsafter land reform.And the result is thathumanre lations among villagersare relatively goodbefore land reform,the level of violence in the land reform is weak andvillagers are satisfied with the economic status after the land reform.Slowly and gradually they geta better right of political participation,but it is opposite for those who has a bad human relationship before the land reform.