The Research Of The Culture Change In Tai'tou Village (from 1930s To Now)

Tai'tou village is situated in the west Jiaozhou Bay which is a village of strong northern traditional culture.Since the reform and opening policy, the culture of Tai'tou has been influenced seriously.The traditional culture is survived, inherited and developed in a new social situation and environment.This article choose a period of time from the 1930s till now to investigate, analysis and research the culture change by the anthropological, historical and Sociological methods of investigation, interview, literature consulting, photography and questionnaire from the angels of case-analysis history and micro-Sociology which is to continues the academic life and culture change courses of Tai'tou village.This article is divided into nine parts which investigate and analysis into the basic survey, daily customs, trades, education, family, ceremony, politic, belief and point of view in the Tai'tou village, analysis and summarizing the change reasons and conclusions at the end.This article combs and analysis the culture evolutional attributes and courses to explore the traditional culture following and developing, the culture view and its change of the villagers and the reasons influenced the traditional culture changing. This article also discusses the traditional culture changing path, and the relation between traditional culture and village society. The attitude of this article is that, since the 1930s, the culture of the Tai'tou village has been changing seriously. The economy developing and the income increasing are the reasons made the culture and the idea of the villagers changed. The external environment coming to the village is another important reason. Modernization process made a huge impact on the traditional culture of the village. By this impact, the point of view of the villagers changed, the rural community is also changing to legal system society. However, the traditional culture doesn't vanish. It shows the tenacious and vigorous vitality even getting revival in a sense. The "single track" modernization theory couldn't stand here The culture of the village presents a type of compounding and interaction between tradition and modern.