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Three Characteristics of Social Locality in China

People in grass-roots society can't do without soil, mobility of grass-roots society and acquaintance society. In terms of customs, rural people have a strong tradition with the village where they live, which is difficult to change. In other words, people living in rural areas have "roots" in their bodies. This "root", this tradition, comes from people dealing with soil from generation to generation. Farmers, on the other hand, take farming as their profession and deal with soil every day, which naturally produces feelings. Rural people take farming as the most common way to make a living, and I don't know how many generations it has been passed down. So they understand the value of soil best, so they can't live without it.