在晚清湖南社会,宗族通过建祠修谱,管理族内民众,维护封建纲常、伦理道德和社会秩序,是与地方政府官员共同管理地方事务的基层力量。通过地方志和族谱可以看到,处在晚清社会中的湖南宗族和团练、保甲等相结合,通过所掌握的宗族权力,对地方社会的稳定发挥着积极作用,很大程度上承担控制地方社会的责任。 In the late Qing dynasty, the clan in Hunan Province, through building temples and repairing spectrum, managing the people in the tribe, safeguarding the feudal ethics, ethics and social order, was the grass-roots force to manage local affairs with local government officials. Through local chronological and genealogical records, it can be seen that the Hunan clans in the late Qing Dynasty combined with the practice of group militia and Baojia and played a positive role in the stability of local society through the clan power at their disposal. To a large extent, they were responsible for controlling the local community Responsibility.