A Research Of Rural Women's Leisure Life In Hakka Areas

In China, with the launching of the socialist modernization drive and change the way people live, on the life of leisure has become more urgent, more extensive and deeper. Leisure life for individuals related to the people can not get the full enjoyment and self-development, for relations to improve people's lives and improved quality of life, so the research on the leisure lifestyle of modern society in the sense that Lifestyle Research Centre, one of the topics for society attention. In the existing study about rural women in Hakka areas, most scholars static describe the ideological character of rural women in Hakka areas, customs, marriage, love, economic life and social roles, basically from folklore and cultural anthropology perspective. Less from the leisure life style perspective, therefore, this research from the leisure lifestyle of rural women in Hakka areas to conduct empirical research. Author pay attention to leisure lifestyle state of rural women in Hakka areas, and what are the differences between different groups? What are the influencing factors? Around three basic issues, Author draw on the leisure, lifestyle, and Hakka women that three research results have been, using three combine methods of questionnaires, case study, field observation,through empirical investigation of rural women in the Bobai Hakka areas, author describe leisure life characteristics of current rural women from leisure time, leisure activities and leisure experiences three aspects. Thus analysis of differences between different groups in leisure lifestyle, explore the affecting factors and formation mechanism. And the following preliminary conclusions:First, the rural women in Hakka areas of leisure time in a small increase in the overall trend, and the leisure time difference between different age groups is linked to the female life cycle. The changes of women's leisure time was U-shaped.As the natural geographical environment and occupational differentiation is not complete, which makes no significant seasonal variations in leisure time the rural women in Hakka areas, production and operation time is a fairly long, leisure time is a lesser extent increased. The leisure time distribution of rural women in areas Hakka that is rather monotonous and "overlap."Second, the three most important leisure activity of the rural women in Hakka areas: watching television and movies, and visits chat, play cards and mahjong. In addition, there are a number of unhealthy, negative content leisure activities, such as:reading code, buying Mark Six. Overall, leisure activities of the rural women in Hakka area type is entertainment-based, learning-oriented activities were few. Third, the leisure space to keep the rural society "local". At this stage, the main form of leisure life in the rural women in Hakka areas is family leisure. Social contacts in leisure time are still to genetic relationship, geographic-based. However, with the rural economic reform and development of commodity production, interest and business relationship of rural women in Hakka areas also developed.Fourth, the majority of rural women in the Hakka areas realized that leisure and work is equally important. The importance of leisure in the new generation of rural women has been recognized and enhanced. However, in Hakka areas, rural women's leisure life in a "helpless" satisfactory, because the constraints of social environment, complexity and conflict for leisure mentality and the actual leisure life.Fifth, there are many factors impact leisure life of rural women in Hakka areas. There are material and cultural aspects. Material aspect, inadequate social security between urban and rural areas, income gap between urban and rural areas, facilities and places extreme lack in rural. Cultural psychology aspect, most rural women in Hakka areas is not high cultural level, resulting in many women lack of leisure skills. Their job differentiation is not complete, special concurrently identity make a lot of women to increase expenditure in the production time to create social wealth, which makes leisure time decreased. Hakka ethnic groups, there is a Hakka woman for the "ideal type"-construction process of labor view, and through continuous replication eulogized\alien exclusion, the rural women in Hakka areas internalize it into self-imposed demand for the perfect personality. Traditional gender cultural awareness and sub-cultural in rural communities restrict quality improvement of leisure life.Sixth, from the "Women Development", author bring forward the way that improve leisure lifestyle of rural women in Hakka areas. The way which the development of social productive forces, training advanced gender culture, and overall arrangements, building public cultural service system, encourage and pay attention to women's participation and organization, multi-stakeholder involvement to form a culture construction.