Leviathan And Vines

The diffusion of Big Sword Society in the southern Shantung is a transfer of a local culture, which is also the stress response of local population in the Southern Shantung in the face of serious social-ecological disaster from 1925 to 1931 (embodied in the flood of banditry). In a sense, the Appearance of Big Sword Society as a community is a reconstruction of the social structure of local community, thus restoring the local-social ecology destroyed by bandits, one outstanding example of which is Big Sword Society in Ju county and Yi-shui. The Event of Flag Societis in the southern Shantung eventually led to a massacre of Big Sword Society and local residents in the hand of Garrison, making an end to Black Flag Society in Ju county and Yi-shui, which was called Huangshi Mountain Massacre. This incident occurred in the initial years of Han Fuju Ruling Shantung, in which a new social order was in the process of reconstruction. This is an important event, because it was not only closely related to almost every measure of reconstruction, but also Shantung local governments rebuilt the local social order in the southern Shantung in this way. In other words, Shantung local governments removed Big Sword Society in Ju county and Yi-shui and changed the power structure of local society and the social environment, thereby strengthening the State's dominant position in local society. What was more important, as a strong network of cultural power, State's return to the local community resulted in subtle changes in the field, for instance, it had an impact on the local gentry and many other communities. In this sense, this incident was a miniature of the interaction between the State and local community. As a local social-cultural phenomenon, the appearance and disappearance of Big Sword Society in the southern Shantung is not just a social event, or a political event, but it is a significant cultural event. This is a cure of Local culture on local social ecology. The appearance and disappearance of Big Sword Society in the southern Shantung is the result of the struggle of the Nation this great cultural system and them in the field of the local community. It is in the way of community conflicts, and cultural systema make influences by the means of shaping the communitis. The story of Big Sword Society in the southern Shantung not only reflects the some common experiences of local populations since "moderning" (especially since the Republic of China),but also some deep interactions of the Nation and local community, which is a struggle and dialogue between local and modern culture that continues to this day. Big Sword Society in the southern Shantung is not an isolated case, it belongs to a common cultural pedigree,, as well as the Red Spears and Small Sword Society in other parts.