How to strengthen the work of guiding the culture of rural clans

Rural cultural construction is one of the main aspects of the new rural construction in the process of practice. Because of the big gap between urban and rural areas, the backwardness of cultural infrastructure, to change this situation requires a lot of capital investment, in order to get out of the bottleneck for the construction of rural culture, but also in order to meet the villagers to improve the quality of life of the spirit of the demand. But the real rural cultural supply mechanism is difficult to effectively provide enough quality cultural products. How to excavate, enhance the traditional culture of rural areas and the use of existing facilities and the enthusiasm of the masses in pursuit of culture, in the capital investment and comprehensive facilities, hard and soft environment can not reach the time, we may wish to the new rural cultural construction and the role of the traditional culture of the clan practical combination of the use of existing ancestral halls, family temples, and other hard facilities to the old ancestral halls, the new culture, new ideas, to promote the construction of the new rural culture may receive twice the result with half the effort! The effect.

First, the historical value and practical significance of clan culture

The clan is a unique phenomenon of human society, the clan as a form of social relations, in Chinese history has experienced a long development, and has become an integral part of the Han culture, even in the modern era, there is still a difficult to part with the clan complex and clan activities. In a sense, it can be said that the clan is one of the very important factors in the continuation of China's 5,000 years of civilization. A clan is a kinship group or social group organization formed by a number of families with close blood relations. The "Er Ya - Interpretation of Relatives" refers to the four generations of descendants of the same grandfather as clans. Under certain conditions, family and clan are synonymous, but clan is obviously broader than family.

Clan culture, from the institutional culture level, refers to the clan rules, family law, etiquette, customs and habits formed by clan members for the sake of the production, life, survival and development of the same clan family, as a result of which it becomes the sum of the norms of the clan members' behavior in their daily life, production, education and interaction. According to the characteristics of the structural elements of institutional culture, in the context of our existing institutional culture, this clan culture belongs to the category of informal constraints, which, together with the formal constraints and the implementation mechanisms***, constitute the content of social institutional culture. The nature of blood relations determines the special nature of clan culture, and the phenomenon of "searching for ancestors" in the Han culture circle is the embodiment of the nature of this clan culture.

Historically, clan culture was one of the dominant cultural forms in society, because it was supported by the unique Chinese patriarchal system, which was the fundamental system for maintaining imperial politics in China. It is precisely for this reason that clan culture was once extremely prosperous in China's history. "After the May Fourth Movement, especially after the establishment of New China, the "people's commune" system was implemented, and the "Four Olds" were broken during the Cultural Revolution, which made the traditional clan culture suffer a great impact, so much so that it was almost extinguished. The traditional clan culture was greatly impacted by the "Four Olds" during the Cultural Revolution, so much so that it was almost extinguished. However, after the reform of the rural economic system, especially since the full implementation of reform and opening up, the rural clan culture has been revived and has a tendency to develop further. According to Dr. Qian Hang, director of the Social History Department of the Institute of History of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, in his article "The Development Status and Future Options of Contemporary Rural Clans," the existing phenomenon of clan activities can be roughly divided into two main categories in terms of their performance functions. The first category is destructive to the existing social order; the second category is through the targeted systematic reconstruction, showing active maintenance of the existing order and active participation; and a category of functional performance in a neutral position in the clan activities.

From the clan activities of our Li surname, most of them can be categorized as "in a neutral position". Of course, the first category also occurs occasionally, for example, due to the rural expropriation of land is not properly resolved related to the specific issues, resulting in a group of petitions, and in serious cases, endangering the normal working order of the party and government organs. The second category is the few that arise in specific areas, such as the repair of clan temples, building bridges and paving roads, building clubs and other village public welfare projects. How to use the favorable aspects of clan culture, make the best use of the situation, and further promote the cultural construction in rural areas, is a matter of concern.

Second, the role of clan culture on the construction of rural culture and the use of

From the above, we can see, we in the new rural cultural construction, we should consciously take into account the influence of clan culture, take guidance, guidance, counseling, etc., the group work into the villagers are happy to accept the cultural activities of the clan. This way rural cultural work is more likely to achieve positive performance.

One is to actively participate in guiding clan cultural activities. In the clan culture of traditional festivals, dragon and lion dances, temple fairs and other rural folklore and traditional forms of family performances, is the clan activities to make full use of the assembly to show the important ways of the clan, guide the injection of new times, to get rid of vulgar content, enhance the cultural taste of the activities is a very meaningful attempt to build a new rural culture. Such as some ethnic activities with the participation of tens of thousands of people, the whole activity is not only the process of entertainment, but also the process of cohesion of the clan's hearts and minds, in which the appeal of the clan is obvious. Its significance has exceeded the original scope of clan culture, just to the background of clan culture, and through the carrier of folk art activities, to show the harmony of rural culture.

We first recognize that large-scale clan cultural activities reflect the "social harmony, good luck and tranquility" of the cultural information based on a planned and organized to regulate, guide; then send professionals in the traditional props craft and performance to guide; at the same time, the organization of professional troupes to participate in it, in particular Organize the cultural hall for the temple staged traditional opera, reflecting the new rural present construction of modern opera, sketches and operas, etc., so that our mainstream culture and clan culture organic combination, so that the new rural cultural construction has been further healthy and harmonious development.

The second is to establish the old ancestral temple, the concept of new culture. As an external manifestation of clan culture, the ancestral temple has a particularly important position in the clan culture. From a traditional point of view, the ancestral temple is customarily known as the ancestral hall, it is a local family temple. It is a place for enshrining ancestors and gods and conducting ritual activities, and is regarded as a symbol of clan power. The ancestral hall is also a place where clan affairs are handled and clan rules and family laws are enforced. Its significance is: on the one hand, it shows the blood relationship of the clan and the basic behavioral norms of the clan, and on the other hand, it also objectively plays a certain role in indoctrinating the children of the clan. Therefore, the ancestral hall is the center of a clan, symbolizing the ancestors and the unity of the clan. Members of the clan are united through ancestor worship and through patrilineal blood relations. The clan's ethics are manifested through the handling of clan affairs and the enforcement of clan rules and family laws.

First, the function of the ancestral hall should be aligned with the elements of the times. The traditional worship of ancestors and the villagers nowadays gather for recreation, cultural entertainment, and assembly and deliberation are dissolved into this specific place. Some major activities in the village, such as weddings, celebrations, etc., are also put into the ancestral temple to carry out. Or the ancestral temple as a base for education, training and performance.

Secondly, we should protect the cultural monuments of the ancestral temple, and highlight the cultural charm of the traditional clan culture and contemporary culture combined. The age of the ancestral temple to mobilize the family's strength to repair, as far as possible to maintain the original style. In particular, the hanging plaque plaque, monumental sculpture to do a good job of registration and protection, can be repaired as far as possible repair.

Third, we must conduct a comprehensive census of the ancestral temple, and strengthen the effective protection of this cultural heritage and rational use. At present, some parts of China's rural economy is still relatively backward, in the construction of new countryside, many villages in mountainous areas can not afford to specialize in the construction of new houses for villagers to carry out cultural activities, but most of the villages have ancestral temples. Therefore, we should do a good job of excavating and protecting the cultural elements of the clan temples, and at the same time, make use of the existing resources of the clan temples to establish clubs and other places for cultural activities according to local conditions, so as to rejuvenate the historical and cultural heritage of the ancient clan temples, and to make an organic combination of the traditional clan culture and modern culture and entertainment. The government, while increasing efforts to protect and study cultural heritage, should also increase investment in rural cultural construction, increase library materials, especially practical rural science and technology books, and add the necessary cultural, fitness and leisure equipment. We just need to rationalize the use of ancient ancestral shrines, so that it will be easy to solve the bottleneck constraints on the funding of cultural activities venues and the contradiction between the supply and demand of rural cultural products, so that the rural culture is well developed.

In short, in today's new rural construction process, how to use the favorable aspects of clan culture, make the best use of the situation, so as to further promote the cultural construction of rural areas. Clan culture can reflect the role of cohesion and performance of the spirit of selfless dedication, especially in major cultural and religious activities and public **** cause can be united, righteousness, a strong fighting force. So that they are engaged in production activities are bound to fight against these harmful to their own survival of the environment, so that they must choose to live in the way of life to enhance the cohesion of the clan. With the clan blood***same body as the carrier of cultural transmission, a series of ways of life and living norms such as religion, culture, family rules, family law, etiquette, customs, habits and so on. Although these ways and norms have been somewhat diluted with the development of society, their clan activities are still a major event in the lives of rural people because of their historical continuity. The most basic reason for farmers to identify with the clan as a form of bloodline organization is the cultural character of the clan culture that can largely satisfy the deep needs of farmers for their own sense of history and belonging. This is also the starting point for us to think about the rural cultural work, but also the entry point for our specific work, only if we find this entry point, the rural cultural work will be carried out in a colorful way, in order to maintain the ontological needs of the clan culture, at the same time, will be as fully as possible into the functional objectives of the social norms of public **** life in the orbit of the new countryside, the cultural construction of the new countryside is bound to make the The new rural cultural construction is bound to be effective.