The main content of farmers' consciousness

China has been a big agricultural country for thousands of years. Today, farmers are still the first social group, and other social groups have been separated from farmers for less than a hundred years. Most people's grandfathers are usually farmers. Farmers' consciousness is the main carrier and manifestation of China's traditional morality and values. The farmers' consciousness in contemporary China has two sides. Farmers' consciousness has both essence and dross. Farmers' consciousness under the current national conditions in China is not only detrimental to the realization of the essence of a harmonious society in Scientific Outlook on Development, but also to the construction of civilization and social stability! While praising the essence of farmers' consciousness, we should also see its dross. (1) A small fortune means security. Under the pressure of the environment, people living on land pursue the goal of having food, clothing and shelter. As long as these three goals are achieved, there will be a sense of abundance. The basis of ensuring rural stability is to solve the problem of food and clothing for farmers first, and then gradually improve the quality of life of farmers, but this requires a process. After 30 years of reform and opening up, China has basically achieved this goal, which has laid the foundation for the political and economic stability of our society.

Sympathize with the weak. In the long-term struggle against the harsh natural environment, people realize that as a concrete person, it is impossible to forever strong, and helping others means helping themselves. Therefore, it has become a traditional virtue for people living on land to sympathize with and help the weak. This kind of assistance is completely selfless, not based on the size of interests.

③ Mutual assistance and mutual benefit. In a society dominated by agricultural economy, it is essential for people to help each other. This concept continues to this day and continues to be carried forward as a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.

4 persevere. Australopithecus gradually evolved into human beings in the struggle against the evil natural environment, and this perseverance has been integrated into human blood. Especially in areas with harsh environment, without this spirit and perseverance, people can hardly survive. The more poor and backward areas, the stronger people's willpower.

5 hard-working. Without hard sweat, there can be no fruitful results, which is deeply rooted in the hearts of farmers. It is a typical portrayal of the spirit of hard struggle of farmers to work at sunrise and rest at sunset.

⑥ Diligence and thrift. When the harvest is good, you can also be diligent and frugal, helping the country to survive year after year. ① Land consciousness. Farmers live on land, and they have a special complex about the land they own. In the process of rural construction, with the development of economy and the improvement of urbanization, some farmers will inevitably lose their land on which to live. For farmers, losing land means losing livelihood security. Whether the land problem is solved well or not has a very important impact on social stability. On the one hand, relocation is not conducive to liberating productive forces, and the household contract responsibility system is not conducive to using large machinery to improve labor productivity.

② Family consanguinity consciousness of village community. The consanguinity linked by family plays an important role in rural areas. No matter how profound the contradictions within the clan are, once they encounter things that infringe on the interests of the clan, the clan will give up internal disputes and turn to the outside world. The family concept among farmers will gradually fade and disappear with the process of agricultural industrialization and rural modernization and the improvement of farmers' cultural quality.

(3) the local concept that is difficult to give up. This is determined by their production and lifestyle. Farmers have always regarded land as their life. If you leave the land, you will lose the conditions for survival. If you leave your hometown, you will lose the social foundation you have established. Since the reform and opening up, there has been a trend of non-agriculture in rural areas, but this is only a reflection of the differentiation of farmers. Only a few people have really left their homes, villages and farmers. Even if the population is urbanized in the future, "farmer" is only a professional meaning, and the concept of rural land will naturally exist.

4 closed and conservative. The long-term self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy has made farmers form closed and conservative ideas, and it is difficult to accept new ideas. Only by showing them the actual benefits can they change their understanding. For example, scientific farming is difficult to popularize without demonstration.

⑤ Strive for profit. Selfishness is the worst aspect of farmers' consciousness. For their own interests, they can turn their brothers against each other and their neighbors against each other, regardless of their friendship. Even the land separated by a wall can lead to this result. In the way of thinking, most of them take their own interests as the starting point. Spears and shields, conflicts in rural areas and most public security incidents originated from this.

⑥ Calculation. Because of the need of survival, they have to calculate everything, including themselves and others. This calculation is both ignorance and self-protection. It is precisely because of this that rural cooperatives are fragmented and it is difficult to implement collective things.

⑦ Self-sufficiency in the face of challenges. Work at sunrise, rest at sunset, and be self-sufficient. This production and lifestyle that has lasted for thousands of years has made farmers' self-sufficiency deeply rooted. Under the control of this idea, the highest living goal of farmers is the level of food and clothing. After the reform and opening up, the rapid development of rural economy and the attraction and guidance of the well-off living standard policy have made the self-sufficient production, lifestyle and concept face severe challenges. However, the dilution and disappearance of this consciousness will be accompanied by the atrophy and disintegration of this production and lifestyle, and even lag behind for a period of time.