Modern Two Lakes Clan Land

This article discusses the origin, distribution and development of clan field of modern Hunan and Hubei region base on a large number of genealogy, archives of agrarian reform, local chorography and the investigation data, and combining the historical characteristics of modern Hunan and Hubei region,analyses the effect of the peasant movement to development of clan field, and then discusses the role of clan field to countryside society modernization of Hunan and Hubei region in the great changes of modern China.In the history of long time development, the clan field of Hunan and Hubei region has formed the main sources by purchase and donations, and complementary with other such as heritage, enclosure and fine and so on. Such diversified sources caused the general existence of clan field in modern Hunan and Hubei region. But there were different characteristic of clan field distribution because of the different natural conditions and cultural environment between Hunan and Hubei provinces, the distribution of Hunan clan field in general was descending from the east to west, and the distribution of Hubei was disproportion and lack of regularity. It was an active period for development of clan field in modern Hunan and Hubei region, the peasant movement in the 1920s may be the turning point for clan field, it declined after 1930s.The peasant movement impacted seriously the development of clan field, but there was different development track after peasant movement of Taiping heavenly kingdom and national revolution period, the reason for that was different way to strike clan, the latter striked the clan by breaking patriarchal thoughts and confiscate the clan field, and the former cannot undermine the clan by single pattern. Under the background of modern social change, the clan field appeared some modern factors, and influence positive the modernization process of rural society of Hunan and Hubei region, but the clan field was the economic foundation to maintain their traditional patriarchal society, it hindered the modernization of rural society.