Book Review of Native China

The Book Review of Rural China is a work by Mr. Fei Xiaotong on the study of rural areas in China, and it is also one of the important representative works on the theoretical study of traditional culture and social structure of rural society in China. The book consists of twelve chapters, and the language is easy to understand, citing a large number of western famous sayings and theoretical reports.

"From the grassroots level, China society is local." The opening sentence of Mr. Fei Xiaotong shows that this book is an exploration of the true colors of local China. "respectively, we have had a glorious history from the soil, and naturally we will be bound by the soil. Now it seems that we can't fly to heaven. " Just as "born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Sri Lanka and died in Sri Lanka", the homeland has created countless glorious history of China for thousands of years, and at the same time it has bound our wings to fly upwards.

"When I first went abroad, the wet nurse secretly stuffed a bag of things wrapped in red paper under my box. Later, she avoided people's eyes and ears and told me that if she was acclimatized and always homesick, she could cook some soup wrapped in red paper. This is a bag of dust on the stove. -I saw in the movie Song of Missing that Poland, an agricultural country in Eastern Europe, has similar customs, which made me more aware of the position that "soil" occupies and should occupy in our culture. "

From Mr. Fei Xiaotong's memory, we can see the unshakable position of local culture. This kind of culture is alluded to in our ordinary and trivial life, permeates and influences each other with daily life, and is a unique culture for everyone.

"The God who occupies the highest position in quantity is undoubtedly the' land'." Land ",the god closest to human nature, is a couple who grow old together and are in charge of all business in the countryside." They symbolize precious soil. Mr. Fei Xiaotong hopes that by clarifying the importance and sacredness of soil, we can awaken our thinking about the most initial and simple existence of life.

Soil is the most common and neglected, but it is also the most important. Whether born in reinforced concrete or rural soil, we should not forget the original local color of China people in previous generations.

Because society is changing rapidly, we are also experiencing various changes in the process of entering modern society from rural society. "These surnames have been used in the village for hundreds of years. I reconstructed the genealogy of each family from the tombstone, which is very clear. Until now, it is still those people. The rural population seems to be attached to the soil, and there has not been much change from generation to generation. "

However, whether we are away from home for various reasons such as work or study, our native place remains unchanged, our family name and genealogy remain unchanged, and our love for travel remains unchanged. As Mr. Fei Xiaotong said, "It is normal for people who make a living from agriculture to settle down for generations, but it is abnormal to migrate." We can believe that relatively independent and free individuals wander and settle down because of geography.

Then, Mr Fei Xiaotong analyzed in detail the difference between Geming shafter and the legal society. Before that, he explained that what existed before we existed were parents, villagers, environment and history, but we had no choice.

He said, "Villagers who are trapped by land in their lives are always in contact with natural people, just like our parents and brothers, not because of the relationship we chose, but because of a living environment that we don't have to choose, even before me."

Then, Mr. Fei Xiaotong also clarified the difference between rural society and modern society. He said, "the credit of rural society is not the emphasis on contract, but the reliability when the rules of a behavior are familiar without thinking." As for modern society, the power used to maintain order is different from that used in rural society. The answer can be found in modern jurisprudence. Therefore, I come to the conclusion that the spirit of contract in rural society is stronger than that in modern society. The former is endogenous and the latter is imported.

"Time is a long time from the pedigree, and it is so repetitive from the experience that everyone may get. There is the same drama on the same stage, and all the actors in this team need to remember only one opera. Their personal experience is equal to the experience of generations. Experience doesn't need to be accumulated, just keep it. "

This is what Mr. Fei Xiaotong showed in the chapter "Writing to the Countryside". The experience of several generations, repeated practice, and the normality of interpersonal relationships are all inherent and unchangeable results, and they are also used to it. They have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the continuation of generations.