The character and the poem might be the upper-class thing, that originally modified from worship in the temple. The substratum is rooted earthbound. Fei (2012) concluded the aggregation would benefit farmers?Firstly, the land requires a close distance to the plant. Secondly, the plant needs water, gathering would help farmers seek water supplements. Thirdly, more people meaning more security. Fourthly, it is convenient to inherit from generation to generation. People born here and die here. Their whole life needs could be supplied in this solitary landscape.
Imagine a situation like this, you were born and raised the same way as other kids in your village, all your knowing never go beyond the village, the rules and principles apply from your great grandfather to your grandfather and to your father. All you have to do is trust and follow those basic rules of life, to farm and never ask why, to get married because your parents told you to and because each and every person are like this in your village. The experiences can be passed on to your children, your grandchildren, and so on. People may never have ‘conflicts’ of being, as they do not need to question their being as long as they live in the same system.
However, this self-consistent system had a huge challenge. The reform and Opening-up. This change in economic policy was founded in and introduced by ideology, by way of reformulating the Principal Contradiction in Chinese society during 1978’s third plenary session of the eleventh central committee of China, the contradiction between the growing material and cultural needs of the people and backward social production. The socialist market economy was manifested in the new Constitution of the CCP (18 October 1992) and its four modernizations: agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. No reform was initiated for the purpose of introducing a market economy or democratic system in the western sense.
The massive group of people moved from the countryside to the cities, the solitary principle faced unprecedented challenges, the rules and morals do not fit in this marketing-oriented stage anymore. These 40 years of revolutionary change had influenced people’s ideas on self, marriage, family, and the world. The conflict between inner and outer is stronger. Chinese nowadays may have high moral standard as Confucianism, but the primitive drive that desire pleasure, luxury, material stimulation, and freedom for choice.
