Understanding the Accompanying Culture of College Entrance Examination: on the Hermes Dilemma in Ethnography Research

Ethnographic research emphasizes understanding culture through solid fieldwork and interpreting culture through text writing. In this process, ethnographic research encountered the dilemma of Cultural Interpretation: researchers, like Hermes, can only guarantee that what he said is true, but cannot guarantee to tell the whole truth. In the process of ethnographic research on accompanying study of Maozhen, as researcher, I also continue to encounter the dilemma of Hermes, the contradiction between field observation and participation, the specialization of deep research perspective, and the limitations of the established academic writing framework, which make it difficult for the ethnographic text to reflect all the facts of the field. Of course, researchers are not completely at a loss. They can ensure the authenticity of ethnographic research to a certain extent by taking reflective measures such as proper self presentation, obtaining feedback from field members, and examining the research value orientation. For the Hermes dilemma of ethnographic research, researchers do not want to eliminate it, but to warn their own ethnographic research.