Rebuilding Publicity: A Cultural Path to Building a Community of Rural Social Governance

Abstract

How to build a rural social governance community through the path of rural culture? This article takes the funeral reform policy of S County in southern Anhui as an example to analyze how funeral, a rural public cultural activity, constructs a rural social governance community from the perspective of public reconstruction. Funeral, as a public activity within the village, provides a public space as a field carrier for participation. In this space, public authority maintains order, public resources provide material support, public actions inject vitality, and rural public culture is reaffirmed and strengthened in this process, thus forming a good public order and public spirit. By utilizing the virtual public space provided by modern media, the reputation control mechanism has once again strengthened the value norms and practical norms of rural areas, further spreading the public spirit and order formed within the village. This article suggests that in the formulation and implementation of policy practice, attention should be paid to the power and importance of cultural traditions and localized knowledge, and a reasonable institutional supply should be designed to form a social governance pattern of co construction, co governance, and sharing.