An Anthropological Study On The Changes Of Vegetable Varieties In Ethnic Villages

The modern agricultural technology popularization is one of the topics China "three rural" development process can not be avoided. This dissertation attempts to vegetable seed technology as a starting point, and uses the case study method of ethnology and anthropology,and chooses the Pingshan village of Shuikou town,Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province as the fieldwork point. This dissertation studies the traditional vegetable and improved vegetable from the perspective of diachronic and synchronic, to explore a series of changes during the change of vegetable varieties in the village.It experienced the process of refusal, doubt, test and then acceptance, when villagers introduced the improved vegetable varieties. After introduced the improved vegetable varieties, the planting structure of vegetable varieties has changed. With the improvement of economic living standards of villagers, they value face and try their best to maintain a good interpersonal relation, the role of vegetable in the daily diet and festival diet has changed. Vegetable can be regarded as a medium of economic activity. Previously, the villagers regarded traditional vegetable as one of the important resources in the process of market sale and exchange, but nowadays the villagers plant vegetable in order to self-sufficiency, they appear the consumption behavior on the vegetable market, and even more dependent on outside markets.Vegetable is a medium of established social relations. Vegetable can be regarded as a reciprocal gift, the behavior of "send seed" "borrow seed" "give vegetable" between neighbors and relatives is reinforced emotional connection with each other. In the gender division aspects, because of their courage and knowledge, men is higher than that of female, using agricultural fertilizer and pesticide in the process of planting vegetable seeds, which made that men step in vegetable plots and women more dependent on men. Because of their age difference, women exhibit different attitudes and reactions on modern agricultural technology. Young people can basically solve agricultural technology problems, while the elderly tend to seek help from others when facing the problems of modern agricultural technology.Consequently, changes of vegetable varieties of ethnic village is always accompanied by the social changes of the whole village, the local technical culture and foreign technical culture constantly adapt and integrate, we should objectively and seriously treat this reality.