每个人都有一个现实中的故乡,这个故乡有名字,在大地上可以找到。大地域的故乡是省,然后具体到县、乡、村。为什么叫故乡,而没有叫“故省”“故县”呢?那是因为自古以来人们就认定乡是自己的,省和县都跟自己没关系,那是国家的。乡村从古代开始,就是国家政权之外的自然自由空间,国家政权到县就终止了。县以下的乡村是亘古不变的民间。正是这个广大的民间使中华文化几千年来保持稳定,朝代更替只是县以上的事,乡村依旧是乡村,就像山河依旧一样,乡村文化可以不受政权更替地代代传承。 Everyone has a real hometown, this hometown has a name, can be found on the earth. The homeland of a large area is the province, and then specific to the county, township and village. Why is it called the hometown, but not called “so the province”, “so the county?” That is because since ancient times people have decided that the township is their own, provincial and county have nothing to do with their own, that is the country. Since ancient times, the village was the natural free space outside the state power, and the state power ended in the county. The countryside below the county is an immutable folk. It is this vast number of people who have kept Chinese culture stable for thousands of years. The replacement of dynasties is only a matter of counties and above. The rural areas are still rural areas, just as mountainous rivers and lakes are, and the rural cultures can be inherited without replacement by political power.