| As an important participant in rural revitalization, the "five elders" play their value functions in boosting industrial prosperity, promoting ecological livability, optimizing rural civilization,helping effective governance and promoting affluent life, which is the proper meaning of promoting rural revitalization in the new era. However, in the concrete practice of the "five elders" participating in rural revitalization, there are widespread problems such as confusion of identity, low recognition of authority,weakening of cultural feelings, lack of local cultural soil, imperfect rural mechanism, lack of participation norms and basic guarantees, aging knowledge and skills, and divorced education for the elderly from reality. In the new era, to give full play to the value function of the "five elders" in empowering rural revitalization, it is necessary to strengthen identity as the breakthrough point, reshape cultural selfconfidence as the support point, strengthen mechanism construction as the foothold, and pay attention to educational promotion as the breakthrough point, so as to fully stimulate the vitality and motivation of the"five elders" to participate in rural revitalization. |