YOUxia And Rural Order Of The West Han Dynasty

Youxia came into being in the period of The Warring States. At that time, hundreds of school of thought was contending. Youxia inherided some characteristics of ru and mo and formed the spirit of xiayi of their own. At the early days of west Han dynasty, social management system was not perfect, and the socienty was just be destroied by wars. So the governor did not had the ability to keep the order of rural, evenmore the governor carried out the policy of inaction. As a result, the rural order was kept by local authority. Both of the local sanlao and fulao played important roles at the keeping of the rural order because they were vulnerable. At the same time, Youxia who was engendered in the period of Warring States and was prosperous in the period of the early days of West Han dynasty also had a great influence on the rural socienty and their roles was can not be replaced. The civilian was poor because of wars, when they had difficulties in their lives, Youxia would help them to solve the problems. So Youxia was respect by civilian at rural. What Youxia did was the government did not want to do. It can be said that Youxia was a indispensable party at that time. Both the authority of Youxia and government were complimentary to some extent. But Youxia often committed crime, sometimes they were harm to the rural order. Youxia could not escaped the destiny of being struck by the government when the social management system was perfect, even if they had great relationship to many aristocrats. After migrating and striking Youxia by harsh officials, governor put an end to the phenomenon of renxia which filled in all the socienty of West Han dynasty.