One of the huge impacts globalization has brought to Chinese people is the impact on
farmers' customs for grain,or rather,on the
national self-sufficiency model.This model has three features:(1) Laying stress on eco-seasonal production.Farmers can easily adapt to the geographic and climatic conditions.They strictly follow
natural law in farming,and assign a special cultural meaning to those completely in-season grain products in order to offer sacrifices to the ancestors,worship gods and deities,or test happiness.(2) Making a balance of the diversity of grains that are mutually beneficial.Farmers make the best economic use of land to meet the daily needs by developing grain,which can somehow withstand natural disasters.(3) Respecting the right of the grain's place of origin.Symbolic management in the said place is usually conducted by myths,legends and festival celebrations to establish social order of grain
sovereignty,and co-ordinate the relations between national agriculture and family agriculture. In Chinese agricultural society of natural economy,grain has become the standard of the formation of population,the scale of a society and moral disciplines.It has thus formed a non-material culture that cherishes grain and respects land and water,as well as a noble economic awareness.Chinese cuisine has long been world-famous,reaching across the national boundary and becoming a successful carrier of communications with other countries.An industrial agriculture model has emerged in modernization and globalization.Under the market economy,many grain productions have been separated from the rights of land and water,and become part of commercial serial.Some grain productions,which are international-grain-project-investment oriented,hi-tech guided, and developed by intensive farming,have upset the balance between national self-sufficiency model and regional natural resources,and disintegrated the value system based on national grain management and farmers'
Customs for
Grain.While they gain the grain projects,farmers unconsciously give up their sovereignty over grain.To safeguard farmers' customs for grain is a long-term solemn battle in the present world.The so-called grain customs in the past is naturally passed on within a nation,but now require conscious efforts of each member of the nation to preserve.In this connection,therefore,to obtain a correct understanding of the grain customs is important to safeguarding national sovereignty over grain and build a conservation-oriented and sustainable-development society.It is required that contemporary higher education should be involved in this work.
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