A Study Of The Township Regulations And Civil Agreements In The Qingshui River Valley In The Qing Dynasty And The Republic Of China

For a long time,rural social governance has been one of the contents of national governance,covering many aspects,among which township regulations and civil agreements are an important part of it.The township regulations and folk treaties have an indispensable role in social development,and their research is undoubtedly of great significance.The Qingshui River Basin is located in the southeast of Guizhou,and it involves part of Hunan Province to the east,where the township regulations and folk treaties are cherished.Under the laws of the country and the township regulations and civil covenants,the region gradually formed a unique contract mechanism.Township regulations and civil agreements are not legal norms,but an autonomous treaty.They are "quasi-legal" norms between law and morality.They have autonomy,self-discipline,rationality,contractuality,regionality and certain compulsory Is the raw material picked by the national Dafa.The feudal society reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,and the problem of "laws cannot go to the countryside" was highlighted.The township regulations and folk treaties played a large positive role in restricting the moral cultivation of villagers,maintaining the production and life of grassroots people,and stabilizing grassroots social order.Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties,it was the Pledge Treaty that stabilized the normal life of the Miao and Dong ethnic groups in the Qingshui River Basin.The Dong called the "section" and the Miao called the "Yilang".Both have strong regional ethnic characteristics,that is,maintaining the social order according to the alliance.Since the opening of the Miao Frontier,the Ming and Qing dynasties gradually included the Qingshui River Basin into their ethnic characteristics,and their national political power and legal institutions were also established in their territory.However,the township regulations and civil covenants still play a role in the grassroots society in a silent way,and must be To a certain extent,as a customary law and national law,the rural social order is jointly maintained.This article believes that the carriers of the township regulations and folk treatiesin the Qingshui River basin are mainly inscriptions and documents.Its content involves marriage customs,forest economy,land sales,environmental protection,civil disputes,public management,etc.Township regulations and civil agreements can be divided into types of marriage customs,timber land transactions,civil disputes,burial prohibition feng shui,environmental protection,and other comprehensive social governance.The role of the township rules and regulations is that,first,it restricts the behavior of managers.How to effectively use the land by restricting the behavior of the operator,adjusting the operator ’s ideas,and accumulating traditional production methods,creatively adopting forest and grain intercropping,recruiting tenant grain,afforesting tenant hills,planting grain in tenant fields,and building fengshui forest The second is the management of township regulations and public agreements in public utilities.The third is the mediation of civil disputes.The fourth is the role of local governance in rural society to maintain local social order and educate the public.There are clear boundaries between the definition of rural regulations in national law and customary law,but in the handling of grassroots civil affairs,the two are complementary to each other;Fifth,it is conducive to ecological environmental protection.The role of the township regulations in promoting the green utilization of resources in the region.Under the pressure of the rapid population increase and the influx of immigrants,the limited resources in the basin have been adopted without restraint.At this time,Yu’s rural regulations played a key role in environmental protection and resource recycling.Unrestrained production behavior is regulated.The Township Regulations not only reflect the living conditions of the local people,but also reflect the changes in the state ’s management of the rural society in the changing times,that is,the state ’s governance of the rural society is gradually scientific and standardized.At the same time,with the operation of the township regulations and civil covenants in the grassroots society,the state,local grassroots organizations,and farmers influence each other and contain each other.Township regulations and civil agreements have always played an important role in grassroots social governance.In short,the township regulations and folk treaties in the QingshuiRiver Basin have an important normative role in production,life,trade,social order,ecological environmental protection and social governance.They have shaped the traditional ethics and contract spirit of villagers cherishing nature and harmonious coexistence.Promote social progress in the basin.