In China today, square dancing is often labeled and stigmatized by public opinion. The existence of square dancing and its wide social influence have shown the "community life" of this group. In examining the daily life of this group, it is important not only to focus on the government's orderly management of square dancing, but also to pay attention to how this particular community life came about, and then to reflect on the significance of community life as a kind of cultural imagination.
In traditional daily life, the leisure time after dinner often belonged to family gatherings. Harmonious and orderly, a cheerful street scene of square dancing now abounds in urban community squares. The author in researching a square dance in Shanghai found that the intersection intersection from the community three to four hundred meters away, is fan-shaped community square. Every night from 18:30 to 20:00 (except when it rains), the 150-member square dance group is divided into 10 columns of diagonal rows of Shan Shan dance, moves in unison, the large speakers on the lawn singing a familiar tune: "There is a girl ah ten ah 178, long hair to the eyes big, lively and lovely, delicate, delicate, delicate, Wulai a flower under the mountain! ......" around the benches, roadside, young and old, watching the dance and listening to the song, you come and go to the mouth is chattering firewood, rice, oil and salt, talking and laughing, become a unique landscape at night. The reasons for square dancing are really puzzling. From the daily life of square dance, the author will square dance groups of basic demands attributed to three points: one is similar collective life habits; two is the individualization of the era of self-emotional dependence; three is the networked era of individual social interaction experience.