A large-scale "life revolution" has taken place in contemporary China under the background of a nearly 40-year high-speed economic growth,urbanization and great changes of social structure.Common people’s core daily lifestyle has been continuously changing and reconstructing.A new kind of "urban lifestyle" has been preliminarily established,and is being rapidly popularized nationwide.The life revolution is constantly changing the basic form of common people’s daily life,and meanwhile the "daily life" in a new modern society is continuously being shaped and renovated.Based on a preliminary review of revolutionary process of the past,today to future,the author attempts to suggest a clear direction for the modern transformation of Chinese folkloristics:folklorists should directly face the most basic modern life of people in rural and urban China,especially give enough attention to how common people create the meanings of life in their completely new modern daily life practices.