Farmland And Homeland

In traditional agricultural society,rice-growing culture is the foundation of life,the Zhuang live with their farmland for generations.To them,farmland is not only the means of production of family economy,but also environment for rural society's survival and development.To do the research on farmland consciousness,just study on external factors,such as social system,technology,economic benefits,and man-land relationship,are insufficient.We should not always follow the top-to-bottom viewpoint.The rural society's economic logic is something we can't ignore.The fast growing urbanization is promoting the social transformation of rural society,thus the relationship between man and land is changing,hence the farmland consciousness is fluctuating along this trend.In order to profoundly understand the current situation of farmland consciousness and it's coming variation trend,we need to do some research on the deep economic psychology which hide behind the farmland-related activities from the new viewpoint of home-emotion,and probe into the cause of the minority's economic development and the course of their social transformation in the Sino-Vietnamese border area.Kanai village of Guangxi Ningming county is a traditional Zhuang village in the border area between china and Vietnam.As an agricultural nation,the Zhuang people of the village are relatively closed for a long time.Living in the mountain ecological environment which suitable for rice farming,they live a stable life revolve around rice farming.Some scholars believe that the process of urbanization in China has begun since the Opium War in 1840,but since far away from the Central Plains,the early urbanization process has a limited impact on the social life of the Zhuang people in the south of the Five Ridges mountains.And after a long time after 1949,the system design of "city-countryside dualization" has hindered the development process of urbanization.Until after-1980 s,the rapid urbanization phase quickly spread to every corner of the country,shaken the structure of the traditional local society and brought profound influence to the social life of the Zhuang people.In this historical background,the traditional rice farming culture of the village of Kanai is inevitably impacted,and is declining in the process of irreversible urbanization.Agricultural cultivation is no longer the main source of the family economy of the Zhuang people in the village of Kanai,and the farmland utilization' thousands-years-long intensive-cultivation has halted,transform into extensive management and even loss control.However,in recent years,in the work of land integration and land transfer to promote the scale and intensive production of agriculture,the Zhuang people in the village are reluctant to participateIn the land transfer process which aim to raise economic efficiency,and still regard the right of use of cultivated land as the most precious economic security of their family.Such a phenomenon that violates "economic rationality" deserves our in-depth study.The family contract responsibility system,which was implemented in the late 1970 s,has the greatest role in liberating the productive forces and raising the enthusiasm of the farmers,it also promotes the development of agricultural production and raising the level of the family economy.However,with the passage of time,the resistance which cause by land fragmentation brought by this system to the development of agriculture has also become increasingly evident.Agricultural scale management is the future trend.In the strict sense,the traditional rice farming methods in the past reflect the superiority of scale management.It mainly realizes the stable development of the ethnic group economy through the production of unified agricultural products-rice.The modern agriculture is the best way for the development of agricultural modernization by the demand of capital,property rights,high quality professional agricultural employees and agricultural science and technology,as well as the transfer of a large number of labor force to non-agricultural industry in south of the Five Ridges mountain area.Agricultural industrialization,through the establishment of a complete chain of circular economy,improves the quality and efficiency of agricultural production,guarantees the national food security,continues and develops the farming culture,and has the role of protecting frontier security and consolidating national defense for the border areas.Land consolidation through land circulation,is a prerequisite for the realization of agricultural industrialization.The mode of production is the unity of the relationship between productive forces and production in the process of material production.The key to the industrialization of agriculture is to realize the transformation of the mode of production,and people are the main body of the productive forces to change the objective natural material.Undoubtedly,changing the current situation of agricultural development in south of the Five Ridges mountainous area is in line with the interests of the state,society and collectives,and is the aspiration of the people.However,the willingness of farmers' families to participate in the land transfer is not strong in the land integration work of Kanai village,it reflects that the process of land reform aimed at promoting the development of agricultural industrialization will not be achieved overnight.The ethnic economics believes that the contradiction between the quality and skill of workers and the social status is the basic contradiction of the economic development.In the economic development,it is necessary to ensure the social status of the workers.Therefore,we must make a thorough study of the local social environment and national culture from the main perspective of the Zhuang people of the village of Kanai,to clarify the crux of the land circulation and pave the way for promoting the industrialization of agriculture and the social and economic development of the ethnic areas.The rapid urbanization in the late 1970 s has overturned the pillar position of rice farming in some ethnic areas.The process of urban industrialization has caused a large number of rural population continually gathering in cities and working there for a long time,which leads to the reconstruction of urban society and the change of rural social structure.In this process,the rural society is gradually changing from agricultural society to industrial city base on the second industry and the third industry and other non-agricultural industries.In the traditional Zhuang nationality society,the value changes with the process of urbanization,such as the means of production,the living space of the ethnic group,the carrier of social relations,the guarantee of economic life,the belief in the trust,and so on.As a result,the traditional peasants were divided into the Zhuang people adhering to the cultivated land,the Zhuang people who realized the non farm livelihood and the new-generation immigrants which grew up in the city.The once unified farmland consciousness has undergone a pluralistic transformation.The traditional rice farming method is a self-made industry.Production,exchange,distribution and consumption together constitute a stable economic structure,which fully embodies the superiority of the Zhuang people to adapt to the local natural ecological environment,and shows the wisdom of the Zhuang people.The transformation of local Zhuang people's to non farm livelihoods is passively involved in a capital oriented market economy system,which fails to embody the subjectivity of their economy,disconnects from the traditional national culture,and caused the phenomenon of the "inlay" of economic development and social culture,which is manipulate by the "economic benefits" and is not fully developed and lead to a sustainable crisis.The lack of sense of belonging of urban new immigrants to urban social life and the overall degradation of rural economic and social functions are the phenomenon caused by this crisis,and thus reduce the efficiency of agricultural land use.The improvement of workers' social status and the improvement of their quality and skills come from the development of adhering to the dominant position.Through the field investigation of the social and economic life of the village of Kanai,we think the way out is to break the "city-countryside dualization" structure of urban and rural areas,realize the equalization of urban public service,help the new immigrants assimilate into the urban system,and promote the agricultural industrialization of the rural society by industry feeding.The strengthening of the main status of the Zhuang people in the social and economic life can give full play to the driving force of agricultural land consciousness to agricultural production activities,maximize the use of cultivated land to create value,and further develop the social productive forces.The first chapter of the thesis puts forward the problem through the economic phenomenon of the field point,determines the theme and the significance of the research,combs the previous research,introduces the research methods and defines the related concepts.The second chapter describes the general situation of social life in Kan Ai Village.The third chapter discusses the social environment background and the determinants of rural land consciousness.The fourth chapter discusses the influence of urbanization on national culture.The fifth chapter discusses the evolution of agricultural land consciousness and its influencing factors.The sixth chapter explains the differentiation of farmland value in the process of rural reconstruction in the post urbanization era.The seventh chapter makes the conclusion of the paper.