Sustainable cooperation in Village Opera based on the public goods game

Many scholars have devoted to study how to improve the level of cooperation and amount of mechanisms have been presented. However, what makes cooperation sustainable? Village Opera is a kind of public cultural activities in southern China and has been on until now. It is a good example that cooperation can maintain a long time and the pattern of Village Opera is similar to public goods game(PGG). So we investigate Village Opera by PGG. To better understand the process of evolution in Village Opera, we introduce three types of agents into our spatial PGG. Through numerical simulations, we find We find that reputation can promote cooperation and reputation is influenced by habitual preference(β). Moreover, the key is that demand or tradition can maintain the cooperation level when reputation is disappear in Village Opera.