乡土社会民事纠纷调解的乡规习惯适用——以潮汕地区“乡规习惯”为例.pdfVIP

Abstract In the vast rural area of Chaoshan district, folk regulations have been widely used in tackling countryside issues, such as folk disputes, education and economy development, welfare construction, cultural continuity and custom development. Local people also tend to avoid lawsuit but prefer folk regulations like religion, consanguinity, folk organizations to protect the legitimate interest of the two parties. Should this traditional way of self-protection be taken seriously? How to exert its procedural effects to the largest extent during lawsuit with the use of the local resources? These are all the questions that deserve further exploration. This paper objectively and comprehensively presents the use of folk regulations in countryside disputes with the help of interview and questionnaires. It explores the folk disputes management mechanism commonly seen in the rural area and proposes certain measures which enable this mechanism to effectively reflect the interest of local people, properly handle social problems and promote social equity. This paper consists of introduction, main body and conclusion, in which the main body consists of five sections. The first section gives an introduction of the folk regulations in Chanshan district. It is divided into three parts: firstly the definition of folk regulations, secondly the characteristics which enable readers a brief understanding of the folk regulations in Chaoshan district, and thirdly the development of folk regulations over time, which aims to present the potential of folk regulations and proves the good result of the connection of sense and