关键词: “气”, “气运”, 农民冲突, 行动伦理, 道德情境, 社会心态

Abstract: Conflict refers to all kinds of tensions，divisions and competition for interests among social groups that compete for dominance. The house-building conflicts in Lushan village display the way farmers create moral situations and resolve conflicts，which reflects the basic conceptual structure of contemporary farmers’actions and their psychological characteristics. Qi（face or dignity） is the core of farmers’conflicts. Competing and fighting for qi are the internal and external aspects of farmers’actions in housebuilding conflicts. Competing for qi is a means to maintain face and strive for the possibility of a better life in the future，while fighting for qi is a means to make the conflict public and thereby win the moral capital in the rural society. The combination of regulating qi（psychological massage）and relieving qi（economic compensation） has become an effective approach to resolving conflicts，hence becoming the balancing mechanism of qi. The social mentality of farmers reflects their own emotional experiences and is actually a deep-seated factor that governs their actions.

Key words: qi（dignity）；qi and yun（dignity and fate）, farmers’conflict, ethics of action, moral situation, social mentality