乡约的诸属性及其文化原理认识  

Village Convenance:Its Nature and Cultural Principle

作　　者：张中秋[1] 

机构地区：[1]中国政法大学法律史学研究中心,北京100088

出　　处：《南京大学学报（哲学．人文科学．社会科学）》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)

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.

关 键 词：乡约 属性 文化原理 时空性 价值性 法律性 社会结构 

分 类 号：D921[政治法律—宪法学与行政法学]