The identification of rural college students with local culture is an important factor affecting the return of rural talents, and plays a decisive role in the implementation of China's rural revitalization and the process of urban-rural integration and development. Consumer behavior, as a means of realizing self-worth and establishing social network, contains symbolic values that become the main dimension of rural college students’ cultural identity. Based on symbolic consumption theory, this work analyzes that current rural college students are exposed to difficulties in rural cultural identity, such as conflicts between rational and emotional values, clashes between precise codes and cultural blindness, collisions between individual behavior and conservative ideas. Deconstruction strategies are proposed from guiding the main body to return and cultivate consumer rationality, promoting heterogeneous integration and melting symbol boundaries, shaping action fields and cultivating collective memory. |