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Study On Image Communication And Cultural Memory Of Rural Chinese Society

Posted on:2019-10-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y M XiaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330545953893Subject:Theater, film and television
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In the book “ From the Soil:The Foundations of Chinese Society” published in the 1940 s,the author Fei Xiaotong believes that there is a ideal type can be used as a tool for understanding rural society can help us understand Chinese society.Because of the characteristics of farming civilization,Chinese civilization originated in the rural areas and was inextricably linked to the land.China's rural society is an intimate community with ties of kinship and geopolitics that has a constant connection.It has regional features,social relations,and cultural traditions that correspond to agricultural civilization.This specific system,which is embodied in a specific grass-roots traditional society in China,governs all aspects of social life.Since the Enlightenment Movement,modernity has influenced the development and revolution of the entire world with an irresistible acceleration.Modernization has helped people to overthrow old dregs and bring about equality,freedom and convenience to their lifestyle and beliefs.At the time of social transformation,traditional norms have lost.In inertia,the traditional lifestyle of rural societies is rapidly disintegrating,and some beautiful beliefs and splendid traditions are gradually blurred.The decentralization of identity and the decline of national cohesion have become two cultural and social issues that have gradually emerged throughout the Chinese society.The ancient and vicissitudes of the Chinese civilization faced a crisis of identity in this acceleration of change.Under such an era background,the documentary Remembering Nostalgia takes the countrymen rooted in the homesickness complex of farming civilization as an entry point,and widely displays the folk customs and cultural traditions of the rural society.Although it is in the transformation of the times,the rural society still retains a lot of material and spiritual traditional cultural relics,including the family culture as the core.Literary works provide the link between memory and culture.The symbol of the family's veins and the bondage of hometown and hometown are all present in the symbols of traditional culture in Remembering Nostalgia.From the cultural memory of rural China,exploring the traditional foothold in front of modernization is an effective way to help build cultural self-confidence and cultural identity.This paper uses the Remembering Nostalgia as a research text to display the social landscape and history of rural areas,select cultural memory as the entry point,and sort out the features,traditions and cultural core of Chinese rural society.Analyze the features and advantages of Remembering Nostalgia in material selection and expression,and interpret the expression of narrative art and audiovisual art.Explore the material legacy,ritual traditions,folk customs and values of homesickness and family culture,extract the core meaning of cultural traditions from the historical and modern stories of rural society,interpret the value of its cultural transmission,and explore the Chinese national tradition The essence of culture and its significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chinese rural society, cultural memory, nostalgia, ritual culture
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