A Generation Of Cultural Capital And Operation

Taking the forming of Shuihu Culture and its contemporary operation in its hometown in Shandong as the researching objects, this paper makes a detailed Anthropological survey on the native place of Shuihu in perspectives of synchrony and diachrony, concerning the four historical developing stages of Shuihu Culture and the operation process of it as cultural capital. This paper applies a cross-over research method combined with relative disciplines such as the anthropological practice theory, space theory (containing cultural capital), science of heritage, history, folklore, literature, sociology etc., intending to give reasonable explanations on the current significance of the occurrence of Shuihu Culture and the present practical operation as well. Shuihu Culture rooted itself in the profound folk literature which has been related in one of the Four Classic Books called Shuihu Heroes, and whose local legends are precious ideological and cultural heritage, manifesting the local knowledge and the super cultural tradition of Chinese Nationality, which is also of great significance in promoting socialist ideological progress.I name the culture formed in Shuihu area since the old time Shuihu Culture, different from the interpretation of others who tend to expound it literally, arguing that Shuihu Culture came into being after the book Shuihu Heroes, that is to say, it should occur after the uprising led by Songjiang in Beisong Dynasty. I argue that it is the long historical Shuihu Culture that contributes to the story Shuihu Heroes, which is an embodiment of Shuihu Culture and one of the most important and suitable carriers. So it is a new attempt in enriching the anthropological research and has its academic and creative point.There have been less research before, taking Shuihu Culture as the theme. The anthropological angle stresses the integrated and contact viewpoint and resorts the fieldwork research methods to conclude the native point of view. This paper includes three main points:1,The unique geographic location of Shuihu area produces its unique local culture. The anthropological survey on the evolution of the history and geography of the four counties in Shuihu area is made in this paper, and the tracing of the fixed phrase Shuihu and the regional evolution is examined and confirmed detailedly as well, which are the objective and realistic conditions for the occurrence of Shuihu Culture.2,Discussion on the origin of Shuihu Culture, approaching to the productive space of Shuihu cultural capital. It relates the progress how Shuihu Culture was spread orally and became cultural elements in the writing of Shuihu Heroes for the sake of the uprising of Songjiang at the end of Song Dynasty. The characters in Shuihu Heroes had been interpreted by Mao Zedong in modern society. This paper expounds the relations of Shuihu Culture, Qilu Culture, Zhongyuan Culture and the culture of Shuihu Heroes, accounting for the connotation and denotation of Shuihu Culture and its special regional feature. The novel about the uprising of Songjiang highlights the gathering of cultural capital.3,Spatial field demonstration and the fulfillment of the reconstruction of the past. The core of the value of heritage is the original authenticity and integrity, whereas, in fact, any the-past can never be reconstructed. How to express the local viewpoint and use the history adhesive in construction is designed to be discussed in two chapters, disclosing the changes in the construction process. History can not repeat, so the verification method is adopted. Scenery spots, relics and historical remains can be used as material evidence so as to supplement the memory and reconstruct the past.The spatial construction of modern tourism culture in Shuihu hometown and the competition for it are related as well as the interpretation of the tourism value signs of Shuihu Culture, behind which is a logical manifestation of cultural capital. The openness of traditional folk culture and the exclusiveness of cultural resource are juxtaposed so paradoxically that traditional culture is gradually being transformed into a heritage with political and economical connotations. As a culture creativity industry, the economic value of Shuihu Culture manifests itself and the tourism resources in the four counties of Shuihu hometown are segmented subjectively. Shuihu intangible cultural heritage then became a hot issue. In such social and spatial circumstances, the activities of culture operators, various carriers of Shuihu Culture and the survey on the current representation of intangible cultural heritage forms(diachronic research) are the main points in this paper, which are related in detail, accurately and authoritatively to some extent.In a word, this paper tries to draw such a conclusion on the base of exploration and argumentation of the gathering and operation of Shuihu Culture capital, that is, in fact, Shuihu Culture tourism and the application for the confirmation of being a heritage is a logical construction process of the speech right of a nation or country from the upper status to the lower. In this spatial field in which many forces interact, people reproduce Shuihu traditional culture centering on Shuihu cultural capital.