在进入全球化时代的今天,有人断言中国的乡村文明行将终结。这些批评家持有这样的观点,是因为他们把视野局限在中原农耕文明受到城镇化建设和经济市场化双重冲击的表象,而没有对中国乡村的立体布局以及乡村价值体系的隐形存在投入足够的关注。就中国的地理而言,大地阶梯从东南部海洋到青藏高原拾级而上,在苍茫的山地、丘陵和平原之上,当下仍然分布着数以万计的村落,并且将长期存在。这些村 Today, as we enter the era of globalization, some people have asserted that the rural civilization in China is coming to an end. These critics hold the view that because they have limited their vision to the appearance that the farming civilization in the Central Plains was hit by both urbanization and economic marketization, they have not invested enough in the three-dimensional layout of Chinese villages and the invisible existence of rural value systems attention. As far as China’s geography is concerned, the earth ladder, rising from the southeastern sea to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, still has tens of thousands of villages now scattered over the vast mountains, hills and plains and will exist for a long time. These villages