The Change Of Rural Leisure From The Perspective Of The State And Society

Leisure is an important part of people’s daily life, and we can even say that the final purpose of all the hard working is the enjoyable relaxing moments. Leisure not only refers to the unfettered development of individuals, but also effects the construction of the social structures and life significance. And all kinds of leisure can not be free of the structural restrictions from the interaction between country and society. This paper discusses the changes of the leisure and social structure in the countrysides since the days of our rural social collectivization, by the case studies of a clan village in the south of Jiangxi province, to reveal the leisure logic structured by the interaction between country and society, and to show the developmental trajectory of the change of the national and social power structures in the rural society.During the period of collectivization, with the establishment of the universal political system and the penetration of national power, the collectivized economical structure of production provided the economic basis for the country-oriented social leisure. The leisure of rural society at this time implemented the cultural hegemony for political purpose in the state of being dominating by the country, and the idea of leisure for product deviated from the original intention of leisure. This preference made the rural leisure more political tendency to the service collective production. Meanwhile, the farmers as the weak could submerge the strong tension initiated from the powerful political domination by the way of relaxing in the working intervals,and it revealed some independence in the general power framework.Since the reform and opening-up, with the national political power quitting gradually from the rural society and the market economy clashing to the countryside life, the rural society began to enjoy some autonomy gradually. At this time, the rural leisure began to present the feature of life orientation, it reconstructed the community with the life-affirming leisure and served for the agricultural production by the means of mutual help. And in the days of nineties, with the market influence being more significant, the leisure activities of farmers began to have the tendency of instrumentalization to construct new relationship that would be better to survive in the market economy, and it also indicated that the village community was commencing to disintegrating.In the new era, with the advance of urbanization, the Liang Village certainly can not get away from the impact of modernization, the time, styles and contents of leisure of the farmers that have no farmland are becoming more and more modernized. And the divergence of leisure groups, the amusing and no-moralizing of leisure contents, and the personal tendency of leisure spaces, indicate the tendency to focus more on individuals of the whole society in Liang Village. The consequence not only indicates the influence of the national selective exit policy, but also indicates the embarrassment of the rural society that ruined in the time of collectivization and crashed by the market economy after the new and fragile growth.In conclusion, this paper holds the view that the historical transformation of the rural society leisure reflects the evolution of the national and social power structures, and the market power that gets away from the country and society constructs the behavior logic of the rural leisure. In the new circumstances of individualization, we must take the public cultural service as carrier, take the renaissance of traditional culture as emphasis, reconstruct the styles and contents of rural leisure, and reconstruct the rural community through the healthy and harmonious leisure.