自专制主义中央集权的秦王朝建立,乡里组织便开始作为郡县制下的基层政权而起作用,以后历代相仍不替。明代为封建社会未期,它的乡里组织既吸取了前朝的有效经验,又根据当时的统治需要加以改造,从而形成了以里甲制为基本组织形式的独具特色的基层乡里组织。研究明代乡里组织,对于认识封建社会晚期基层统治的特点,考察封建社会基层管理组织的发展变化及其对强化专期主义中央政权的作用和对社会经济发展的制约与影响,都具有十分重要的意义。 Since the establishment of the autocratic monarchy of the Qin Dynasty, the township organizations began to function as grass-roots regimes under the system of counties and counties. In the Ming Dynasty, the feudal society was out of date. Its rural organizations not only learned the effective experience of the former dynasty but also rebuilt it according to the needs of the reign of the time, thus forming the unique primary grass-roots village organization with the Liali system as the basic organizational form. To study the organization of the township in the Ming Dynasty is very important for understanding the characteristics of the late grass-roots rule of the feudal society, examining the development and changes of the grass-roots management organizations in the feudal society and their effects on strengthening the central role of the adolescents and restricting the social and economic development significance.