| The contracted rules of villagers as a kind of a public community rules which is super the household norm existed in our ancient times. It comes from the hometown society, matches the actual life of hometown society, regulates the people's behaviors in a norm of soft, adjusts living order of hometown society reasonably, and is important means of the hometown society integration. In contemporary China, along with the fulfillment of the grass-roots democratic institution, the contracted rules becomes the important carrier of the villagers autonomy, is a kind of rules that the villagers use to manage themselves, to educate themselves, to restrain themselves, and is an important system arrangement which the nation afford for the adjournment of most common villagers. Placed in the modernization, contracted rules of villagers within progress of modern realization is not only the embody of the villagers' daily life logic, but also combined with the factors of national will, become a kind of important society integrating mechanism blending the hometown character to modernity character, and has special function of itself to the villages development. |