The Study On Fortune-telling Of Farmers

The view of heavenly mandate and future telling was widely spread inancient china.obviously,there is conflict between future telling and modernthinking manner,but now a lot of Chinese try to control their destiny by futuretelling,especially in China’s vast rural area.Obviously, fortune telling behaviorhas been resisted and criticized by the government long time, but now thefortune telling is still widespread in North China rural area, farmers still havethe functional basis for the selection of fortune telling, in other words, fortunetelling still have reason and the significance of its existence in the vast ruralareas, farmers still need to use it to explain and to solve practical problems oflife.Through field research of D village, the analysis include content offortune-telling, participants and other aspects of rural economic and socialenvironment.The reasons farmers seeking fortune telling is that they meet somedifficulty but had to solve, thus we can perspective to the problem of peasants’daily life.In addition to the customs;insufficient of anti risk ability, lack ofknowledge and the ability of reflection are the main point leading the farmers touse the unrational way to solve their problems.what’s more,the governmentignore to protect the farmers when they are in the market.So the article drawattention on the modernization of farmers’ thinking manner during theurbanization and call on the government to strengthen the protection forfarmers.