Identity Symbol And Emotional Energy

China is an agricultural country since ancient time. The vast countryside area make up the largest Living and production area, and the daily life of Chinese peasants become one of the most basic national conditions. We can not say we understand Chinese society, if we don not understand the daily life of Chinese peasants. Therefore, it is inevitable for anyone who want to study Chinese society that to study the rural society.Interaction ritual of rural areas is an important aspect of rural areas’ spiritual and cultural life. The action logic behind it is one of the most important constituent parts of rural spiritual culture and value pursuit. To study the action logic behind the interaction ritual is good for deeper understanding what are the peasants thinking and it is good for making a deep interpretation to the value pursuit of peasants through the surface fo peasants’ daily life. At last, we can get a deeper understanding even form a new knowledge about rural areas and peasants.In Collins’s opinion, interaction ritual has features of market. It depends on the interaction opportunity and whether they can attract the others to join the interaction ritual that whom will they make interaction with and what kind of forms will they use to make interaction. Identity symbol and emotional energy are the most important two kind of resources among all influencing factors.Identity symbol means cultural capital and interpersonal skills which is necessary enter one of interaction rituals, and it is the premise for an interaction ritual. Individual can’t get into an interaction ritual if he or she does not have a relevant identity symbol. At the same time,identity symbol can strengthen themselves continually and they can create new identity symbols.As the other important resource, emotional energy is not "emotion" in the usual sense but a thirst for entering group interaction and getting identity symbol. It has an obvious social orientation. The people who have high emotional energy are full of self-confidence and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, the people who have low emotional energy feel tired and depressed about social interaction, and they want to get away from social interaction.Generally speaking, we see interaction ritual as on part of our traditional culture, and it’s continuity and habituation are what we emphasize on. Also, we can explain their rationality with "’Everything real is rational". However, as one of the social actions which have existed for a long time, interaction ritual does has it’s own action logic just as most actions do. The reason why people attend interaction ritual again and again is that they are thirst for more emotional energy. As the common standard among people’s rational choice, emotional energy is the core motivation behind the interaction rituals.