Politics And Customs: The Grass-roots Party Organization And Common Law In A Ethnic Minority Village’s Governance

Yunnan Honghe, is the main settlements of Hani as Chinese frontier minority, which reveals its mysterious and colorful for all unique and splendid national culture. Hani customary law is an important part in the Hani ethnic culture, is representative carrier of the Hani culture. It has played an indispensable role since ancient times, and effectively maintained the generations of Hani villagers’ labor and life.With the progress of era, the country needs to be grown and the ethnic also need to be developed. The diversity of Chinese ethnic minorities brings about the challenge to the further development of whole country, which requires our political party and nation take the appropriate measures and behaviors for the entire national community in order to govern scientifically and effectively. After the founding of New China, the grass-roots party organizations play an important and positive role in the governance of the minority rural community, which help the rural community growth rational and standardized. So far, discussing the connotation and meaning of the grass-roots party organizations and Hani customary law, clarifying the differences and relations between the grass-roots party organizations and Hani customary law, is not just for enriching scientific theory, more importantly is to promote the practice of sense.Firstly, the paper take a doctrinal interpretation for the connotation and extension of the customary law, demonstrate the function of the customary law from a historical perspective and then explore the unique role and important meaning of the customary law in the minority rural governance. Secondly, incorporation with Q village’s specific circumstances, exploring the relationship between grass-roots party organizations and Hani customary law in different periods. The three periods are:first, after the founding of New China and before the completion of three major transformations, which is 1949 to 1956; second, the period of planned economy, which is 1956 to 1978; third, since the reform and opening up, which is 1978 years later. As the demarcation point of these three periods, discussing the political backgrounds of different times, comparing the transition of customary law’s form and content during different periods, then finding the relationship and characteristics between minority rural grassroots party organizations and customary law through observation and analysis of the case.After the eighteen of the Communist Party of China, the minority rural social governance faces new opportunities and challenges in the country’s fiery wave of social governance, while the form and content of minority customary law are also changing constantly. Based on analysis of historical experience, the characteristics and needs of the reality of rural social administer, finding the new feature between customary law and grass-roots party organizations in the new era. It effectively promotes customary law scientific and modern, finds countermeasures on how to apply customary law to govern the rural society better for the grassroots party organizations in the context of social management, sequentially achieve healthily symbiotic development of grassroots party organizations and ethnic minority customary law.