1, primary color. This chapter is probably the general introduction of this book. "From the grassroots level, China society is local." In this chapter, Fei Xiaotong defines the grassroots level of China society as the countryside, which has three characteristics: first, "rural people can't live without soil." Rural people take farming as the most common way of making a living, so they know the value of soil best. Second, the liquidity is poor. People who make a living from agriculture "stick to the land" does not mean that the rural population is fixed, but that the relationship between people and space is not flowing. They moved to another place and maintained isolation and separation. Third, the acquaintance society. This slow population movement in rural society makes rural life full of "local" characteristics, living in the countryside and staying in the countryside. Therefore, rural society is a society between acquaintances, which is the freedom of "doing whatever you want". This chapter describes the foundation of China society, which is also the foundation of the whole book. The mode of post-text differences and the root of Geming shafter lie in this "locality".

2, "rural writing" and "rural re-writing". These two chapters illustrate a problem-rural society can never be said to be "stupid" without words. Words are the product of people being blocked in the process of expressing their feelings, but in rural society, "face-to-face communication means direct contact. Why choose words instead of more perfect language?" In fact, there are more "special languages" that can be used as symbolic materials, such as expressions and actions, which are more effective than language. "So in rural society, not only words are redundant, but even words are not the only symbol system to convey family ties." "Rural writing" talks about the spatial gap of expressing feelings and feelings, while "rural writing" talks about the time gap, including the personal gap between the past and the present and the social gap between generations. Because rural society is a very stable society, the range of memory one needs is already very narrow; The repetition of the same lifestyle makes language enough to convey the experience between generations without words.

3, "Differential Sequence Mode". From "difference pattern" to "difference between men and women", it is about the sociological significance of the ethical relationship between family, country and the world. "Differential order pattern" is an extremely important sociological and anthropological viewpoint put forward by Fei Xiaotong, which refers to the differential order relationship determined by blood relationship and geographical relationship. China people's unique "private" personality has created China's unique "differential order pattern". Different from the group pattern of western society like a bundle of firewood, Fei Xiaotong compares the pattern of China in his book to "a stone thrown on the water, and circles are pushed out". Everyone is the center of the circle pushed out by his social influence, and the things pushed out by the ripples of the circle are interlinked. Everyone uses different circles at a specific time and place. Every network is self-centered, and the center of each network is different. This is a homotopy pattern with difference order.