主编寄语

在古徽州地区的婺源县严田村,有一对兄弟为了在干旱的炎炎夏日里生存下来,经过与大姓家族的协商和交涉,终于在不属于自家的土地上挖出了一眼保命的泉水,拯救了族人。数百年过去,这眼泉水被完好地保留了下来。严田村不仅完整保留了“桃花源”般的理想景观格局,也留存了丰富的多中心社会治理遗产,包括多处家族祠堂和一处难得一见的“巡检司”遗址,以及无处不在的理学家规和家训。正是这些家规、族规、村规,以及代表国法的巡检司等多重制度的约束,造就了这般“水旱从人,不知饥馑”的美丽而充满韧性的景观。

There is a story about a well in Yantian Village of Wuyuan County, part of the ancient Huizhou Region: During a dry summer, after consultation and negotiation with most respectable families in the village, two brothers dug the life-saving well on the land that was not owned by their family. Hundreds of years passed, the well has remained intact. Yantian Village retains an ideal landscape pattern of the Peach Blossom Land, and holds the rich heritage under the polycentric social governance, including ancestral halls, a rare Xunjiansi (an an cient patrol divisi on) site, and family disciplines and exhortations. It is the network of family disciplines, clan rules, and village agreements, as well as the national law conducted by Xunjiansi, that has created such a beautiful and resilient landscape.