Local Knowledge Production and Reconstruction:Traditional Ecological Culture of the Ethnic Groups in Southwest China and its Contemporary Significance
Chinese-style modernization is a kind of modernization in which people and nature coexist in harmony,and it is rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture.The traditional ecological culture of the ethnic groups in southwest China,where various eth-nic groups coexist and develop in harmony with nature,is a local knowledge formed through the process of their communication,ex-change,and integration.Tradition and modernity are not a fractured opposition,but a unity of complementarity.From a holistic and systematic perspective,the"local knowledges"in the idea of the community of shared life,livelihood models,and ecological taboos of the ethnic groups in southwest China reflect the endogenous production capacity of each ethnic group in the process of localization,thus guiding the coordinated development of social ecology and natural ecology among all ethnic groups,providing beneficial ideas for the construction of contemporary ecological civilization,cultivating correct ecological value orientation,guiding green ecological transforma-tion in the consumption field,maintaining biodiversity and a healthy cultural ecology,establishing a grand food concept with regional characteristics to ensure food security,promoting the construction of ecological civilization systems and complementary promotion of self-operating cultural mechanisms,and promoting sustainable socio-economic development.