Study of Peng Yuting’s Thought of Self-cultivation

In the first half of the 20th century, the rural construction movement was one of the major social trends in China. The Wanxi autonomous leader headed by Peng Yuting carried out a vigorous rural self-government campaign in the Wanxi region of China, forming a local self-government theory centered on the “Three-Self”, which includes self-support (self-enrichment), autonomy, and self-defense. Aspects. Peng Yuting’s self-sustaining ideology takes Sun Yat-sen's “people’s livelihood” as his theoretical source. In the process of Wanxi’s self-government, he implemented a series of rural economic developments such as tree planting, water conservancy, improvement of agro-industrial skills, and management of rivers, and improvement of the rural economy. Production conditions. Although it has also been praised by reporters as "a model for the rural self-government movement," it has not fundamentally touched the foundation of the ruling order - feudal landlord land ownership. Therefore, it ultimately ended in failure.