Research On Relationship Between Agricultural Culture And Regional Environments Based On Cultural Ecology In Qingyang

Culture is the result of inter-action of human beings and nature. It is an important channel to study the relationship between man and nature by illustrating cultural response to the impacts of geographical environments. Qingyang City, the cradle of agricultural civilization, is the typical section plane to study the cultural response to geographical environments owning to long-standing, variety and continuity of its agricultural culture. On the view of Cultural Ecology, the origin, development and evolvement of agricultural cultural in Qingyang were analyzed, and its response to the impacts of regional humanity and natural environments were explained in this thesis, which is an interpretation of change of relationship between man and nature on the point of culture.First, the impacts of natural environment on origin, form and development of Qingyang's agricultural culture were analyzed from 5 aspects of settlement conditions, landforms, soil texture, climate and hydrological conditions, including: 1) special texture of loess, geographical marginal effect, enclosure and scale effect, and segregating effect supplied hominid with ideal settlement conditions, abundance foods and safety, which afforded a suitable environment of settlement and farming; 2) loose and fertile soil was one of the premises of origin of agriculture; 3) warm and humid climate caused the origin and development of primeval agriculture; 4) densely covered river-net and lakes made water-carry and irrigation convenient for daily life and farming, which counter-acted the regional droughts in spring and early summer; 5) opening and corridor effect supplied agricultural culture with developing space and information exchange channel.Second, the impacts of humanity and social environment on Qingyang's agricultural culture were analyzed from 4 aspects of geo-location factors, historical migration and agricultural policies, China's traditional physiocracy and technology, including: 1) in ancient, Qingyang had been located in the agriculture and nomadic Interlaced-Area, and near the border area over a long period of time, therefore, its culture was influenced by agriculture, nomadic and military cultures; 2) repeated migration and supporting policies of agriculture in history played an important role in society stabilization, agriculture development, and culture prosperity;3) economic pattern of agriculture formed the thought of China's traditional physiocracy, on the other hand, it gave deep impacts on today's daily life, folklore, as well as people's action and psychological features;4) improvement of technology and sciences pushed productivity and society forward, consequently, promoted diversity and flourish of culture.Third, cultural response to impacts of geographical environment was illustrated from 3 aspects of correlativity between climate changes and social events, agricultural folklore, as well as action and psychological features, including: 1) climate is an important factor of agriculture and its alternation of warm and cold had great influence on ancient agricultural production, thereby, caused the changes of the relationship between man and nature, and accordingly caused the changes of the relationship between man and man, man and society; 2) the form, development and evolvement of agricultural folklore were affected by geographical environments such as politics, economic type, religion, landform and climate, etc.. Therefore, the folklore can reflect the cultural response to environments; 3) Qingyang people have an action feature of fearing risks and canonizing experientialism, psychological feature of attaching great importance to kindred and regional relationships, as well as realistic and concrete, hardworking and thrifty character, which reflect that agricultural society is an order and empiristic society aiming at mutual benefit and cooperation based on resource restriction. Besides, media environment is affecting and changing Qingyang people's action, mind and ideas, thus, there appear the conflicts and amalgamation of traditional and modern cultures.Last, the essence, value evolvement and ways to achieve sustainable development of agricultural culture were stated. The author thinks that the balance of agricultural society is an order balance based on resource restriction, whose ideal state is the harmony of man and nature. In different times, agricultural culture has different values and function. Nowadays, it still has great role in individual culture and moral character training, building ecological ethics viewpoints, and meeting people's aesthetic and entertaining needs. Innovation of idea and thoughts is the key to achieve sustainable development of agricultural culture. To development tourism industry is a feasible way to achieve cultural sustainable development.