On The Belief Of Contemporary Chinese Peasants

This paper reveals the problem of peasants’belief in contemporary China. i.e. At present, an practical inclination regarding the faith has emerged that numbers of farmers extremely amplify the effect of materialistic beliefs of materialism in the area of religious, political and moral etc, meanwhile the social cohesion was dispersed and self-identity was weakened as the result of obstinately persisting in such radical belief. Overall, various causes are affecting the emergence of this practical inclination. Economy, politics and ethic can be the external factors while the Chinese specific cultural background is the internal one. The immediate cause is probably the weak literacy of current Chinese peasants. Hence, from the external angle, the solutions are properly and effectively remediate and handle the inter-relationship between the Chinese farmers’spiritual belief and modern rural economic construction, building socialism democratic legal system, developing and managing of society respectively. While on the internal side, making effort on improving and advancing the literacy of Chinese peasants’is the way out regarding the spiritual belief issue in modern China.Drilling from the living perspective, this dissertation explores and proposes the faith as the spiritual living of people and it is the realistic expression of the need and desire of people’s materialistic living on the religious, political and ethical aspects etc. And then the conclusion that the crux lies in the radical amplification and adherence of materialistic belief keep stretching in rural religion, politics and ethics etc and eventually weaken and disperse the social acceptance has been made as the theoretical framework of this entire thesis. By reviewing the relative major academic gaining, this paper analyze the embodiment of current Chinese peasant’s belief issue, digging and synthesis the incentives of the emergence of belief issue from both internal and external sides in order to establish the macro mental image that mitigate the belief problem from these economy, politics and social development three external factors and argue improving peasants’literacy as the concrete measure to cope with the problem.This paper mainly adopts sociological ethnography and questionnaire investigation methods to analyze the farmer belief status in X county. Using life history of social science, historical analysis method and through interviews, accessing to records, the paper is keen to reflect the influence from the faith by materialistic beliefs to each level as truly as possible, and associate with the literature research to expose the current specific embodiment of the peasants’ belief issue in contemporary China from both the general and special case.Firstly, referring to the current academic studying, this paper theoretically extend faith issue to social identity one, and set up the culture functional judging standard regarding belief problem. Then the researching and analysis on the faith issue of modern Chinese peasants’are conducted from the social acceptance and culture development angles, which indicates brand new standing points to re-study the current Chinese peasants belief problem is explicitly suggested.Secondly, this paper comprehensively analyzes these economic, political ethical incentives and cultural sources of resulting the current peasants’Utilitarian beliefs. In other words, the realistic economic factors gradually impel people to be more interest-oriented, realistic political factors release the potential vitality of subjective mentality and the realistic ethical factors build the social atmosphere of moral but most of all, it comes to the point that poor literacy is the root from inside of modern Chinese peasants’belief issue. The bullet point pinpointed in this thesis is that literacy is either the component of prime importance of cultural or the intermediary and bridge between faith and cultural. Besides, there is the relationship of syntrophism between cultural competence and belief. The foundation of belief is deeply rooted in the cultural soil, the cultural competence in soil provides nutrients, once the seedlings of beliefs get unearthed, it must be influenced by some climate and environmental factors such as politics, economy and ethics. Accordingly, relatively new macro mental image and concrete measures to resolve the problem of contemporary China farmer belief has been proposed. And innovatively arguing that improving modern Chinese peasants’ literacy is another solution to the belief problem.Thirdly, this paper asserts social acceptance is the judging basis of current Chinese peasants’belief issue, especially in the current age with cultural and faith diversification, accurately and effectively justifying whether a faith is problematic, to some extent, has certain quotable value. At the same time, the proposition concluded in this paper that improving the peasants’literacy as the concrete measure to the belief issue of Chinese peasants will be advantageous for the peasants who make up the vast majority of Chinese population to understand the cultural content, participate cultural activities and share cultural gaining. More importantly, it is also the preliminary opinion and advice for better implementation of the significant strategic deploy from17th plenary session of6th central committee of Chinese Communist Party that constructing a strong cultural socialistic China.