Introduction

Professor Fei Xiaotong says, in his famous work From the Soil, that “Chinese society is fundamentally rural.” According to the French anthropologist Marcel Granet, “the countryside is the foundation of Chinese civilization. However, studies on rural migrant workers focus more on modernity, and treat tradition as either a background or a point of reference. For example, anthropologists have studied the revival of festivals and clan culture, political scientists have studied rurality for the purpose of rural governance, and sociologists have addressed the necessity of abandoning rurality for the farmers to assimilate in the city. This project is based on the research materials gathered in a village where migrant work is the main income source, and illustrates the changes taking place in the rurality of the villagers' life. Sociology methodology is often divided into three parts: methodology, research method, and specific research plan and technique.