Folk Faith:the Culture Genes Of Grassroots Autononmy

Folk belief is a kind of diffusive and non-institutionalized belief system. Xiqian village of Lufeng city, Guangdong Province has preserved relatively intact and traditional folk belief due to the special historical and geographical environment. Even now, whether in villagers house or in the village, or in a personal life story and in festival solar terms, all these in Xiqian village are filled with all kinds of spirit and faith. This complicated folk belief system constitutes the Xiqian village culture characteristics, and also deeply affects the villagers’ behavior. Different from Buddhism, Christianity, which belong to systematic and institutionalized religion, also different from Confucianism and Taoism with a traditional official ideology, folk belief has a tenacious vitality and reflects the thoughts of farmers due to the dispersion among the ordinary farmers. Folk beliefs are crystallization of history of farmers’ behavior concept. So we can say folk belief is the most grass-rooted belief system.The progress of farmers believing in folk belief is also the progress in which the ideology of farmers’ behavior customer is formed in Xiqian village. In the process of believing in folk belief, the farmers in Xiqian village forms a identification system and rule consciousness of themselves, for example, they highlights highly agreement from within, collective protection towards foreigners, mutual assistance, self reliance and so on, They also inherit and maintain these identities and rules by folk belief.Especially, Xiqian village forms a system of social organization which contains board of directors,councils and clans because of folk belief It is all these social organizations that keep the order and peace of the village and constitute the governance body of the village.The belief system,rule identification and social organization formed by the folk belief, which is also the spiritual support and organizations carrier of Xiqian village social autonomy. This kind of social autonomy tradition explain the cause of Xiqian village "folk" tough ""without fear of government" and other folk customs and regional cultural.The Xiqian village folk belief is not only the cornerstone of social autonomy, but also the key to the development of villagers’ autonomy. In the1980s, the Xiqian village began to implement the village autonomy institution. With the influence of a variety of reasons, the system fell into the predicament of the "lockout", During the "lockout", based on the folk belief of social autonomy is still the actual operation system of Xiqian village.In the late90’s of the last century,after nearly8years shutdown,"community autonomy" shaped by "villager autonomy" and the folk beliefs started to be "unification",the villager self-administration starts to absorb the social autonomous positive factor, and drew support from the folk belief to realize landing and taking root of villager self-administration. In the current period of villager self-administration system operation faced with many issues, Xiqian village case also inspires us,as the villager self-administration system constructed by country, we should meet the rusticity in the actual performance process, utilize, absorb and draw lessons from the active factors of traditional culture, making the villager self-administration be a part in the farmer life truly, thus the villager self-administration system can strike roots and run effectively.