When did the Rural Convention become binding and integrated with the law?

During the Song Dynasty, from the Song Dynasty onwards, Confucian scholars initiated rural conventions to educate the people, which were used and promoted by the government and became binding and integrated with the law. After the Song Dynasty, Confucian scholars devoted themselves to grass-roots education and educated the countryside with rural conventions.

Performance:

1. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Lu Dajun's brothers were the creators of rural conventions, and Lu Dajun's rural conventions were a model for Confucian scholars to educate their village.

2. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, we changed the township agreement and preached the "six letters" of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Sixth, the main persuasion, but there are also elements of prohibition, gradually making the rural contract mandatory. Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty often quoted Daming Law to explain the six laws. Those who did not abide by the rural conventions would be punished or even deported to the government for punishment.

3. The rural conventions in the Qing Dynasty basically continued the model of the Ming Dynasty, but the content of preaching became the extensive training of the sixteen imperial edicts of Emperor Kangxi and the imperial edicts of Yong Zhengdi, and the statutes of the Qing Dynasty were often cited when preaching.

Main contents of rural contract system

From the beginning of the development of the Song Dynasty, the class gap between countries was very large. Among the elite, there is a poor gentry class that has just developed since the end of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, a group called the gentry class appeared in the grass-roots areas. It is precisely because of the emergence of this class that the system of rural conventions was put forward in the Song Dynasty.

Running rural foundation with rural contract system. The rural contract system in Song Dynasty is a kind of social grass-roots management system with extremely perfect history. When it was first developed, it was just a mutual agreement to deal with neighborhood disputes. However, with the development of time and the further expansion of the team, it has developed into a rural grassroots management organization composed of gentry and elderly residents.