Study On The Marginalization Of The Spiritual And Cultural Life Of The Old People Who Live In Countryside

China after the reform and opening up, socio-economic level has been greatly improved, and standard of living of rural households has also been improved. The rural elderly people had been greatly improved in terms of substance dependent, but their spiritual and cultural needs had been relatively neglected. The spiritual and cultural life of the rural elderly marginalized, this problem has become the object of attention of many scholars.In this paper, we use the sociological theory to analyze the reasons for the marginalization of the rural elderly spiritual and cultural life. And through depth interviews, to find the rural elderly people out of the way of spiritual and cultural life of marginalization. To meet the needs of rural elderly in the psychological and spiritual aspects of creating conditions to improve the quality of their spiritual and cultural life, enhance their life satisfaction and happiness. Help the rural elderly to create a colorful world of the spiritual life, enabling them to a sense of security, and a sense of worthiness.In this paper, the depth interview, literature and statistical analysis method are used to investigate the elderly people of the xiaojing village. Understand their awareness of the spiritual and cultural life, the distribution of leisure time, leisure activities, the activity time, duration and frequency of leisure-time activities, organizational forms of leisure activities and the choice of location. By analysis of these aspects, to understand the needs of the spiritual and cultural life of the people who live in xiaojing village. Through the study found that the rural elderly is still relatively little understanding for spiritual and cultural life. Their concept of consumption for leisure and recreational activities have yet to be further improved. The rural elderly to participate in leisure and recreational activities are not positively, the activities they participate are relatively simple. Generally speaking, the elderly of the village is more like to take part in spontaneous and random activity. Activities selected multi-chat and walking, and they are immutable. They are not considered whether the activities are beneficial to their physical and mental health.As the same time, in the study also found that rural elderly people in the cultural life have the following problems:awareness of the spiritual and cultural life is lack, demand for spiritual and cultural life is not high, venues and activities have the contradiction between supply and demand, the form of the rural elderly to take part in leisure activities is lack about organization and guidance, the funding of rural elderly to take part in leisure activities is inadequate, lack of effective management. There are two main factors that cause these problems:personal and social factors. The personal factors include:the low cultural level of rural elderly, original way of life, personal role conflict to participate in leisure activities, propensity of consume to take part in leisure activities. The social factors include social supply factors and social security factors.The paper will give recommendations and countermeasures to address these issues. First, we must attach importance to understanding the spiritual and cultural life of the rural elderly; bring mental protection in the areas of old-age security. Spiritual and cultural life is one of the most important factors in the quality of life of the rural elderly, spiritual and cultural life of the rural elderly is a necessary condition to improve the quality of life of older persons. Second, pay attention and develop education for the rural aged, the elderly have always been with the brain, reading newspapers, watching television, listening to the radio, so as to develop habits that continue to accept new things. The third is to increase investment, provide material support to the cultural life of the spirit of the rural elderly. Although this material support relate to the level of development of the social economy as a whole. But depend on the material resources directly into the security field of the spirit of rural elderly. The fourth is to establish the Student Voluntary Services. Between the volunteers and the elderly contact with each other, student volunteers can learn more about the elderly, understanding the elderly, make the atmosphere of respect the elderly and caring for the elderly becomes thicker. And also enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly in rural areas. The fifth is to establish rural senior citizens’ association, to encourage the elderly self-help, to establish the rural senior citizens’association, need to give full play to the role of the Senior Citizens’Association, to be active in the leisure and recreational activities of the rural elderly. Actively guide and organize the rural elderly to carry out various forms of leisure and recreational activities.