从十一世纪中叶开始创设了义庄的人们,并不是单纯占有土地的地主,他们是以宋代所确立的科举官僚制度为其存在之重要前提的政治阶层。义庄原本严禁族人租赁族田,族人之利用族田,是义庄解体过程中出现的异常状况。宋代士大夫设立义庄的目的,不是为了救济,而是通过全面保障族人的日常生活,并让他们在义学中学习,培养能够在科举中及第的人材,从而建立一个官僚身份世袭化“母体”的宗族。 The people who founded Yizhuang since the middle of the eleventh century were not the landlords who occupied the land. They were the political class that existed as an important prerequisite for the existence of the imperial civil examinations established by the Song Dynasty. Yi Zhuang originally prohibited the tribe rented clan, the use of tribal clan, is the process of Yi Zhuang disintegration of the abnormal situation. The purpose of the scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty in setting up the righteous cause was not to provide relief but to establish a bureaucratic identity as a hereditary mother by comprehensively guaranteeing the daily life of the tribe and allowing them to learn in righteousness and to cultivate the talents capable of being trained in the imperial examination. "Clan.