The Morality Of Traditional Village Regulations And Rules Of The Bai Nationality And Its Modern Value

Traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality are standards of behaviors which keep the village society of the Bai nationality in order, containing rich morality. Morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality played important roles in modulating the relations, relieving the contradictions, purifying social atmosphere of Bai village society, as well as improving morality of Bai village society.With traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality as research object, this paper combs the historical development of morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality systematically, analyzes the forming reasons of morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality, outlines the contents, summarizes the characteristics, excavates its modern value and puts forward to some problems which should be paid attention to when we inherit moral thought in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality reasonably according to the actual conditions of bai region at present stage.Morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality has experienced the breed germination, slow development, the initial formation and mature four stages in the long history of development. Bai geographic environment was the precondition of its formation; farming society was the foundation on which morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality produced. The encouragement from dominators of central plains promoted the rapid development of morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality; Manners and customs, Confucianism and religious thoughts enriched its contents. As special social consciousness, morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality has not only the general characteristics of common morality, but also its distinctive features. As a product of the era, morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality has a distinctive duality. On the one hand, the reasonable content of morality in traditional village regulations and rules has a positive impact on socialist construction in Bai region, which should be inherited and developed; on the other hand, due to the influence of historical limitations and time limitations, the negative content hinders socialist construction in Bai region, which should be abandoned. At the present stage, when inheriting the modern value of morality in traditional village regulations and rules of the Bai nationality reasonably, we need to assess the situation based on the comprehensive development of Bai society, adapt to the actual situation of the villager autonomy in Bai region and maintain its distinctive national characteristics in the course of development.