Skills’ Acquisition:Inheritance And Social Influence Of Traditional Farming Technology

The mastery of traditional farming technology actually is the acquisition of a skill.Its inheritance reflects incisively and vividly among family intergeneration.When one acquires knowledge through his own work, the elder especially his father also passes on the technology and experience to him. The elders’"words and deeds" and "personal practice" play a key role in the process of the acquisition and inheritance of skills and its acquisition also has a significant influence on one’s identity.Finally,it forms a set of rich system of the farming technology which has been replenished and improved by their forefathers.Based on this,this article will research the acquisition and inheritance of traditional farming technology.Chapter one describes the acquired environment of farming skills and basic technical system which mainly includes natural environment and humanistic environment of the village, crop species and cropping system, farm work program and tools, technical main point and so forth. Chapter two introduces the process of the acquisition and inheritance of farming skills which contains the ways of teaching and learning and the diversity between individuals.On the basis of the previous chapter,chapter three analyzes skill acquisition’s influence on one’s identity which mainly represented in two aspects of family and community. Its acquisition is the basis one establishes family authority and also the favorable factor to form his community authority.Chapter four is the present situation of the inheritance of traditional farming technology whose inheritance chain has been broken nowadays and farming technology is undergoing changes and traditional farming skills is also on the verge of dying.The conclusion discusses the possibility of forming "the old society"...