社会中的家族组织是从事生产和其它各类社会活动的最基本的群体,因而家族便对社会经济、政治制度的发展,具有着促进或制约作用。历史上国家民族的盛衰与家族组织形态的善否,息息相关。古人有谓,“家齐而后国治”,又曰:“欲治其国者,先齐其家”。这些话,今天看来仍是中肯的。所以,家族形态的研究是史学界重要的研究课题之一。但是,多年来这方面的著作不多见,尤其在先秦史研究中,全面系统的有关 Family organization in society is the most basic group engaged in production and other types of social activities, so the family has a promoting or restricting role in the development of social economy and political system. The rise and fall of the nation in history has nothing to do with the good or not of the family organization. The ancients said, “Qi and then rule the country,” said: “For those who want to rule their country, first Qi their home.” These words seem to be fair today. Therefore, the study of family morphology is one of the important research topics in history. However, many works in this area have not been seen for many years, especially in the study of pre-Qin history, which was comprehensively and systematically related