A Transforming Village

In Chinese countryside,it is the fundamental life style for peasants to live with clan in traditional village hamlet. After the P.R.C was founded, a series of change smashed the traditional life pattern in countryside,the traditional village hamlet community life style which peasants has been used to for a long time has been recomposed. Starting with the changing process of village hamlet community, on the basis of literature and datum,the writer investigates thoroughly a village on the boundary of Fuqing and Putian by the means of individual inquiry and research on the spot, describes the village hamlet community's formation and evolution process, emphasizes to expound the everyday life of the village hamlet community and clans with members of the same clan's blood line as well as the influence and function of this village's particular contacting network in the village hamlet community. At last, the writer depicts the village hamlet community's another component part----the overseas community and its formation and contribution, moreover, the writer then proposes the new concept of "becoming rich by business and defending wealth by industry...