乡村社会实行乡里制行政管理,这是古代中国不同于古代欧洲的地方。乡里制度的宗法性与行政性的高度整合,集中反映了中国古代社会结构的一些特殊性。历代乡里制度都是以对全体乡村居民进行什伍编制为起点,以“什伍相保”、“什伍连坐”为基本组织原则的。它是君主专制国家政权结构中最基层的行政单位,拥有按比户口、宣布教化、 Rural society to implement the system of rural administration, which is different from ancient China ancient Europe. The highly integration of the patriarchal system and the administrative system in the township system has concentratedly reflected some particularities of the social structure in ancient China. The system of township dynasties in the past drew on the principle of organizing all the rural residents into groups and using the principle of “guaranteeing mutual benefits by all means” and “taking even the possession of all their own councils” as their basic organizational principles. It is the most basic administrative unit in the constitutional structure of monarchy and autocracy,