The Study On The Transformation Of Contemporary Chinese Villagers Culture

For the long-established old fashions, Chinese peasants had experienced too much sufferings. Since the found of P. R. China, radical changes have taken place on them. And with the development and reform of country economy, their daily life has been improved dramatically, as well as their political economical consciousness, cultural minds, moral standards and life styles. Judging from the literary works which is about villages, the peasant's minds tends to be modernized as well as their political consciousness self-valued. Their market consciousness woke up and established with their consuming habits changed as well. Their cultural egoism has transferred from foolishness, dumb inter-dependence, inferiority to openness, freedom and sought after their individualism and benefits. Their negative minds, superstition and conservative started to march toward positive minds, rationalism and openness. Meanwhile, their marriage and employment, knowledge are stepping into modern age.With the transformation of Chinese society, its peasants have also undertaken successive changes. The driving force can be clarified as follows: The production mode and economic basis serve as the inner impetus, the inherent law of village culture combined development is the incentive for their culture transformation. The motivation of benefits is the predisposition and the coming of information age can be accounted as the key for culture transformation.Because of the complex reasons of the accumulation of traditional culture, the backwardness of economy and cultural diversity, peasant's minds and cultural level still can't adapt to the contemporary development. Some of the outdated values and minds impose the resistance for their development and new village construction.Currently, our villager's culture has the dual feature of tradition and modernization. It'll bring benefits to new village construction and peasant's urbanization to promote the transformation of village culture. Because of the long-rooted old fashions, it'll take rather long time to change it from some laziness and negative factors. Here are some recommended ways. To provide materialistic basis by promoting village economy; The government of different levels should attach great importance to the innovation of their thoughts and cultural development;To speed up the transformation from village to city, villagers to citizens; To reform the traditional dual managing system and optimize the context for village labor force transference. Undoubtedly, the key to this aim will be the society economy development, nurture of modern culture and guidance of local government and authorities.