摘要
乡约是传统社会乡民基于一定的地缘和血缘关系,为某种共同目的而设立的生活规则及组织。乡约最初形成于中国,后传播至朝鲜半岛、日本和越南,成为东亚社会共同的法律文化传统。传统中国的乡约有其时空性、价值性和法律性。乡约不是国法,但在乡民的实际生活中发挥着法的作用,是中国传统社会秩序构造链中的重要一环,其内贯一极二元主从式多样化的文化原理,与传统中国社会的结构和文化理念相契合。近代以来,乡约总体上呈现出消解的趋势,但至今仍有各种流变形式,认真对待,合理改造,必有益于中国类型法治社会的建立。
Village Convenance is the embodiment of life rules and the social body set up by vil-
lagers of a traditional society on the basis of geographical closeness and blood tie. It originated in Chi-
na, and later appeared in Korean Peninsula, Japan and Vietnam as a common legal legacy of the East
Asian community. The traditional village convenance in China is characteristic of its own dimensions:
time, space, value and law. Conventionalities play a role of law in villagers'daily life though they are
not laws in legal sense. Its cultural principle——one entity with bifurcation and diversification——
corresponds to the structure and cultural ideal of the traditional Chinese society. Though the modern
times has witnessed a fade-out of the traditional village convenance, yet still exist the variants, proper
treatment and rational modification of which will be greatly beneficial to the becoming of a society of
law with Chinese charateristics.
出处
《南京大学学报（哲学．人文科学．社会科学）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2004年第5期51-57,共7页
Journal of Nanjing University(Philosophy,Humanities and Social Sciences)
基金
教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目(01JAZJD820001)
