Major Forms and Functions of Rural Forest Culture

Being a kind of culture phenomenon based on rural forest, rural forest culture is an important form of forest culture. Rural forest culture and city forest culture are two wings of forest culture. Rural forest culture has the characteristics of originality, nationality, localism, regionalism and diversity. It includes rural habitation forest culture, rural Fengshui(风水) forest culture, ancient and famous tree culture, and rural protection forest culture. Rural forest culture is the main source of ecology culture. It proposes a circular lifestyle complied with nature, defends the ecological ethic of revering forests and nature, and has profound significance of protecting nature. Rural forest culture advocates the harmony between human and nature, which has great practical significance in enhancing the social cohesion and promoting the construction of new socialist countryside.