【作者简介】萧放，北京师范大学社会学院人类学民俗学系教授、博士生导师。

【文章来源】《西北民族研究》2023年第3期发表，《新华文摘》2023年第22期转载。

【内容提要】中国是具有悠久农业文明历史的大国，乡土文化深厚。乡土不是乡愁寄居地，它具有实在的文化价值。在国家乡村振兴战略的背景下，在城乡融合发展政策的激励下，乡土正成为人们向往的热土，乡土价值被重新发现、激活。乡土作为特定空间，具有物质生产、社会生活、精神生活的三重价值。活化传承乡土价值以促进乡村振兴，可以通过如下途径实现：充分发掘利用乡土的物质价值，激活乡土物质资源与技艺传统，振兴乡村经济，提升乡土的生活质量；保持与增强乡土的社会生活价值；以村落信仰资源与乡土艺术资源丰富乡民的精神生活；激活乡村生态文明传统，服务当代生态文明建设等。

【关 键 词】乡土，价值，认识，乡村振兴

【基金项目】本文为研究阐释党的十九届五中全会精神国家社会科学基金重大项目“拓展新时代文明实践中心建设研究”的阶段性成果。

Returning to the Countryside：Rethinking the Value of Rural China

XIAO Fang

Abstract：China is a big country with a prolonged agricultural civilization where rural culture has been rooteddeeply during the history. The countryside is not the home base of nostalgia but still has its useful culturalvalues. Encouraged by the policies of rural revitalization and urban-rural integration and development，therural area is becoming a hot spot for people to yearn for， while the local value has been reactivated anddiscovered. As a special space，rural area has the triple values of material production，social life and spirituallife. The activation and inheritance of rural values in order to promote rural revitalization can be achievedthrough the following ways. Fully exploring and utilizing the value of material resources and technical traditionsto revitalize the rural economy，and improve the local quality of life. Enriching the spiritual life of the villagerswith local belief resources and art resources. Activating the tradition of rural ecological civilization to serve theconstruction of contemporary ecological civilization.

Keywords：Rural China；Values；Recognition；Rural Vitalization