春秋时期乡里的地域设置及其关系考

Research on Administrative Division of Township and Li and Their Relationship in the Spring and Autumn Period

春秋时期承西周而继续存在的地域性居民组织“里”,主要分布于列国都城内外和其他城邑,又新出现了地域性居民组织“乡”,主要分布于都城内和城外之郊,并且形成以乡统里、一乡辖若干里的基层政权格局。

In the Spring and Autumn Period,besides“Li”(the primary administrative unit including 25 households)inherited from the Western Zhou Dynasty,a new administrative unit“township”appeared.Different from Li which mainly distributed inside and outside the capital cities of different states and some other cities,township mainly was arranged inside the capital cities and the suburbs.Thus,a new primary administrative pattern formed that Li was under the control of township and a township may govern many Lis.