Village Hunhuns And Gray Of The Rural Society

While farmers were liberated from the people's commune systems during the 1980s, the youth without job came together and formed their unique village corner, which was permeated with malformed heroism, and characterized with competing for hegemony and adoring fame. However, young people dared not to go too far in villages, because acquaintances community posed a constraint upon them and their families. As soon as the village corner endangered the basic rural order, state power intervened, by using local resources and following the mainstream values in acquaintances community. Therefore, the village corner declined for some time.Before long, village hunhuns reorganized and formed new village corner in 1990s. At this point, the village corner no longer pursued fame , but turned out to be materialistic. What is even worse was that the state in transition and the socio-economic development have generated great opportunities to the village corner. Village hunhuns seized the opportunities, and they founded a stable organizational structure through network. The village corner was unified, and integrated into the network of city and countryside. It even has social stratification and social mobility mechanisms. In the context of social change, the rural security force is powerless against village corner, for upper level hunhuns in village corner can effectively evade from the hitting of the state, and there are sufficient lower level hunhuns to join the organization.The organized hunhuns made themselves the super power in the village, and they fundamentally changed the ecology of the village. The villagers are too weak in front of the super power, the village cadres and village collective are also weak. Sometimes even the state power is weak. The village hunhuns dominate the villages, play an actual role in village governance, and they are not negligible in farmers'lives. They change all kinds of micro-power in the acquaintance community, even the basic principles of human relationships. In this context, capable village cadre without virtue and good hunhun absurdly come to the stage of village governance.Village is dominated by the village hunhun, and shows a scene of violence. Earth-bound logic has been changed, traditional norms in village are no longer followed. Villagers do not take human feelings and faces into accounts, they will resort to hunhun and rely on violence even for small interests. The village moral order is on the edge of collapse, and the village is no longer an acquaintance community. Although villagers are familiar with each other, basic principle of farmers'relationships, their action logic, and village order mechanisms have all been changed fundamentally. This is gray of the rural society.