The Research of common law about the Miao minority of Guizhou—the example of Fanpai in Taijiang
Abstract
Taijiang has 95% above inhabitants is the Miao national minority, because of special history and geographical environment, with keeping traditional common law culture. In the common law standard's criminal system, the civil system as well as the marriage system and so on has the national characteristics extremely. Fanpai is the stockaded village which in a Miao national minority lives together of southeast Taijiang County. The Fanpai common law's criminal system is substituted for completely by the state law, after the state power entering the national minority area and the unification national legal system unprecedently denied the national common law explicitly. The Fanpai common law’s civil system obtains the new life by the local rule form, but the marriage system is retained sublately because it has not touched the state power. How is the situation of the Fanpai common law now? How is State law and customary law of the relationship? Whether it is necessary to forcefully push forward in ethnic minority areas law? Based on this typical example of Taijiang's Fanpai County of Miao village and practice of the national survey data, we can analyse the Miao village in the main customary law and solve the problem involved in article.
Keywords: the Miao national of Guizhou Province, the Miao national in Fanpai, Common law, State law.