今年5月12日四川汶川县发生强烈地震,房屋大面积倒塌、人的伤亡很大。这里是羌族聚居的地区,十年前我在这一带进行过田野调查。高高的碉楼、淳朴的人民给我留下多么美好的印象。想不到一瞬间夺去了那么多人的性命、倒坏了那么多房屋。今年冬天凯里也遭受50年未遇的凝冻灾害,虽然很难过,但毕竟没有这么大的破坏,死那么多的人。震后党和政府及时调动大量人力、物力进行救助,使地震灾害的损失和人民身心痛苦尽量降到最小程度,更说明我们的政府是重视民生的政府。这几天我每天都看灾区的新闻,为灾区揪心。另外笔者想起了10年前调查时写的一篇文章,是根据一份清末羌民控告土司残酷压迫的诉讼文书,反映清朝司法的黑暗和诉讼的艰难,由于该研究难度较大,辅助的资料少,自己觉得对很多问题还未搞准,所以一直未敢拿出去正式发表,在此民族法学会上恳请学者们指正的同时,也通过这一场旷日持久、波澜起伏的羌民控告土司案件了解灾区以前的一段历史,读者也自然会进行今昔的对比。 On May 12 this year, a strong earthquake occurred in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, and large-scale housing collapsed, causing great casualties. Here is the area where Qiang people live. Ten years ago I conducted a field investigation in this area. Tall towers, simple people left me a good impression. Unexpectedly, the lives of so many people have been taken away so many houses have been destroyed. This winter, Carey also suffered freezing floods in 50 years, although sad, but after all, not so much damage, so many people died. After the earthquake, the party and the government promptly mobilized a great deal of manpower and material resources to rescue them, minimizing the losses caused by earthquake disasters and people’s physical and mental suffering, and further illustrating that our government is a government that values ​​people’s livelihood. In the past few days, I read the news of the disaster areas every day, worrying about the disaster areas. In addition, the author remembered an article written about the investigation 10 years ago. It was based on a liturgical document that the late Qiang people complained of brutal oppression in the Qing dynasty. It reflected the darkness of the judiciary and the difficult litigation in the Qing dynasty. Due to the difficulty of the study and the auxiliary materials Few, I think a lot of problems have not been allowed, so I have not dared to formally published in the Institute of Ethnics urged academics at the same time, but also through this protracted, waves of Qiang people sued the chieftain case To understand the history of the disaster area before, readers will naturally compare the past and present.