王阳明乡治思想探析

On Wang Yangming's Rural Governance Thought

在阳明的文录、公移、告喻、奏折、诗文中,有诸多乡治思想。阳明在庐陵、南赣、汀漳、上杭、平和、崇义、思田等地平定叛乱、赈济灾民、减免赋税、兴办书院社学、实行保甲制度、制定乡规乡约、推行土官自治、疏通盐法、设立县治等都是其乡治思想的体现,表现为宽猛相济、恩威并重、德法兼施等特点。

Wang Yangming＇ s philosophical theory system is well known and paid great attention and expected while his political achievements especially the rural governance thought are seldom emphasized by academic field. Factually, there is a great deal of rural governance thought in his articles, records, poems and submissions to the emperor, he established village and town schools, formulated village regulations, carried out local government official autonomy pol- icy, established the rural schools, strengthened the Baojia system, relieved the victims of the natural calamity, cut down or excused the tax, dredged the salt regulation and established the county government during in the south of Jian- gxi, Luling, Shanghang, Chongyi, Pinghe, Sizhou and Tianzhou. He made a lot of achievements there, which embodies his rural governance thought. He integrated moral cultivation and force in the process of rural governance, which manifests the characteristic of using lenience and force, affection and power, morality and legality in his rural governance theory and practice.