ABSTRACT
Under the workings of the current system and the market economy, there exists a fluid symbolic boundary between rural migrant workers and the urban society. The manifestation of rurality is also the most present at the celebration of these two festivals. Instead they continue to transplant rurality to the urban society. It is hard for them to consider themselves city people, and this ambiguous self-identity motivates them to transplant the familiar rurality to the city to provide them with basic life security and purpose. In fact, most migrant workers are employed in the secondary labor market, which means they generally belong to the low-income group. The primary labor market receives more systematic protection, and migrant workers are faced with various systematic exclusions and discriminations when trying to break into the primary labor market. Under the dual pressure of systematic discrimination and limited human capital, most of the migrant villagers from Nancun work in secondary labor market and receive low wages.
