The Research Of Grass-root Security System During Qin And Han Dynasty

Rural public security in our country has always been a long-existing andremarkably difficulty issue. It has marked characteristics different from urban areas.Although rural community nowadays is not a acquaintance one, it is still gathered bythe ties of kin. The basis of this community is clan rather than individual. It resemblesthe whole China’s social status in the past2000years. No matter how times changeand politics alternates, rural community in our country still has deeply-embeddedfeatures of the thousand-year long history. In that way, to solve the rural publicsecurity issue, we need to look back and go back to the initial times of thefeatures—Qin and Han dynasty. We can apply the experience of setting up ruralpavilions during this period to the construction of police work nowadays to settle therural public security issue. With this starting point, the author researched the theoryand ideology of public security during Qin and Han dynasty, traced the roots ofChina’s public security ideology and got to know the foundation for the formation ofrural community to find out ways for references of modern rural public security and toestablish a prevention and control system of rural grass-roots public securityaccording to the Qin and Han history.The whole thesis consists of four parts and has almost25000words. The thesiselaborates the origins and evolution of the public security ideology during Qin andHan period, i.e. from governing a country by law to mixture of force of dictators andbenevolent government, and at last to worship for Confucianism. Then it introducesthe rural pavilions which constitute the basis of public grass-root security system andtheir responsibilities for public security respectively. Finally, the thesis goes back topresent state of rural public security and introduces briefly a number of presentprimary issues of public security. It then uses the public security system as referenceand take the real situation into consideration to construct the public securityprevention and control system suitable for the present rural community.The first part is the origin and evolution of the public security ideology. To startwith public security ideology of Legalists during the Pre-Qin Period, this partintroduces Guan Zhong and Shang Yang who influenced the administration of Qin.Legalism, presented afterwards, nearly continued all the decrees and spirits ofReforms of Shang Yang and utilize the thought of implementing reward and punishment. Current of worship for Confucianism comes at last. Although the idea ofpublic security changes quickly in this period, it in essence is still mixed up withbullying and benevolent government. Legalists, Taoists and the Confucianistsconverged in Han dynasty and together represented the Chinese culture which wenton for over1000years.The second part is grass-roots rural public security system. This part mainlyintroduces the rural pavilions which constitute the grass-roots rural public securitysystem. It can be understood from a whole picture that how grass-roots public securitysystem works by the installation of the rural pavilions and disposure of the personnel.The third part is the function of the rural pavilion during Qin and Han. This partexplains the main responsibilities of rural pavilions from four aspects namelyhousehold registration, arresting criminals, assisting province and county to deal withcriminal cases and maitaince of social order of area under jurisdiction. These fourbasic responsibilities cover the major needs for public security of grass-rootscommunity.The fourth part is the revelation of rural pavilion system during Qin and Han forthe construction of rural public security system nowadays. This part goes back to thepresent rural community and firstly elaborates the main public securities issues in thepresent rural community. Then it uses rural pavilion system as reference to deliverauthor’s own opinions about how to construct the rural public security prevention andcontrol system.