The third chapter of Native China rewrites the word "going to the countryside" and concludes that this chapter is about the time gap, including the personal gap between the past and the present and the intergenerational social gap. 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.

Native China is a sociological work written by Fei Xiaotong, a contemporary sociologist. It was first published on 1948.

Native China is a book written by Fei Xiaotong to study rural areas in China. The book consists of 14 articles, covering the humanistic environment, traditional social structure, power distribution, moral system, legal ceremony, blood relationship and geographical environment of rural society. In Native China, the author summarizes and analyzes the main features of grass-roots society in China with simple and popular language, which fully shows the face of grass-roots society in China. The book mainly discusses the pattern of difference order, the difference between men and women, family, blood relationship and geography. The language of this book is fluent and easy to understand.

Native China is one of the important representative works of China's theoretical research on traditional culture and rural social structure.