The Research About Rice-farming Customs And Its Protection?utilization In Taihu Area

From ancient time,Taihu area is the prominent rice-farming area.Under the umbrella of the long-term rice-farming activities,people here cultivate famous rice-farming culture which is pretty collective,modal and far-reaching.People's lifestyle?value and aesthetic are all impacted by rice-farming activities.However,the rice-farming customs are dying these days because of the revolution of the rice-farming activities in the era of globalization.In the new time,the protection and the development of the rice-farming customs become the new rhythm.Based on the ancient books,connect with the historiography and folklore,the article will briefly introduce the development history of the rice-farming activities and then focus on the content of customs in Taihu area like food?festival?belief and the value of the activity itself.What's more,this article also pay attention to the strategy of how we protect and utilize the rice-farming customs.Firstly,this paper introduces the development history of the rice-farming activities in Taihu area.The great environment gives Taihu area natural advantages of cultivating rice.And the population?transportation?handcraft?commerce?culture stimulate the development of rice-farming agriculture.And with the development of the rice-farming in different stages,it cultivates many special characteristics like intensive cultivation?collective work.Secondly,this paper focus on the content and the value of the rice-farming customs in Taihu area.The content of the rice-farming customs includes the production?life and farmer's proverb which covers rice-farming producting?food?costume?festival?worship?taboo and farmer's proverb.All these aspects influenced by rice-farming production and reflect the living situation of people in Taihu area.As the collective activity,the value of the history?culture?economy promotes the current situation of the rice-farming customs'protection and utilization.Finally,although custom culture has been changing over time,it can promote the culture reconstruction to adjust to the modern society by enhancing cultural identity and confidence in cultural subjects.The last chapter analyzes the current situation of the rice-farming customs' protection and utilization and its problems.And base on that,this article tries to discuss how to improve the protection and utilization.Diging cultural connotation and characteriseics,improve people's participation,develop multiple methods,all this methods can be used as the hints about how we protect and utilize the rice-farming customs.