The Ancient Village Protection Strategies And Action Research

Ancient villages bear the weight of historical significance and traditional culture gene, entering the modern civilized society but losing immune function, the ancient village living situation is not optimistic, and the ancient village protection is becoming a cause for concern. From initial folk appeal to more and more academic attention has been paid since 1980s, and to correlative protection organization founded in the late 1990s, until 2011, the protection of ancient villages was discussed as the important proposals during the whole nation "two meetings", thus this problem aroused the concern of the whole society.What we will protect, who will protect, and how to protect is several questions must be answered in the ancient village protection. The ancient villages are "living cultural relics", on the one hand, they are a kind of cultural heritage village containing rich material culture and intangible cultural heritage; On the other hand, they are also residential communities, which is the place of production and living. Therefore, the living and integral preservation is the inevitable requirement of the ancient village in nature. The villager is an indispensable factor in the cultural overall system of ancient village. The villager is the subject of the ancient village culture and also ought to become the subject of the ancient village culture protection. However, "living" transmission, overall protection, and villagers' participation are all must be based on the basis of villagers' cultural consciousness. As a result, this paper claims the ancient village should be protected by villagers' cultural consciousness. For a start, cultural consciousness theory is used to interpret the understanding and action of the villagers which as village subject. Through investigation, a conclusion can be obtained that the villagers have the initiative of cultural consciousness stems from their culture identification, cultural crisis or the sense of crisis, and cultural dialogue or cultural reflection ability. In addition, villagers' cultural consciousness is regarded as an important social resource for the ancient village protection in this paper.Cultural consciousness is of a character of practice which is not only a kind of cognition but a kind of action. Social capital, especially the traditional social capital which met the needs of the survival and development of villagers and became the power sources of villagers' cultural consciousness, is just an important social resources depended on by villagers in the social practice. In this paper, social capital is evaluated from the following several aspects:common spiritual beliefs, common blood ties, common standards and common means of livelihood. The author believes each item of social capital has its own law of emergence, development and extinction and these social capitals existing and playing a role in the modern society will continue to be effective. Traditional social capital should be used in the ancient village protection work, because it still plays an irreplaceable role.The social construction of ancient villages'crisis and the propaganda education of the ancient village protection will produce cultural self-consciousness. By ascending the value of traditional culture resources, increasing traditional social capital stock, and better meeting the villagers' demand, the ultimate power of the villagers' cultural self-consciousness will be obtained. However, only by the cultural practice, the realization of the cultural self-consciousness and the increasing of the social capital be will come to true. Therefore, in the investigated villager, the author carried out a series of cultural practice together with the villagers in accordance with actual situation, and these practice activities also sever the purpose of the protection of historical and cultural information, looking forward to getting some understanding about the protection of ancient villager.As a conclusion, the author recognizes that the protection of ancient villages can't do without villagers' cultural consciousness and the village social capital, and in the action process, cultural consciousness has been further enhanced and social capital further increased. Therefore, this is a harmonious community construction process. Concretely speaking, social capital breeds the cultural consciousness and cultural consciousness promotes to produce new social capital meanwhile, and moreover, the villagers coping with the current crisis and constructing their own cultural homeland through the social action just formed by the combination of cultural consciousness and social capital.