Abstract: Green Crop Societies in North China can be dated to at least the early nineteenth century .The earliest ones were loose temporary crop- watching organizations. Bu t from the middle o f 19th century, G reen Crop Societies gradually evolved in to integrated autonomous organizations of villages which undertook all kinds o f public affairs and had the capacity of levying corvee .This transformation reflected the new trend between state and rural society during the reign of Xianfeng and Tong zhi: the state continuously penetrated into the local society in order to seize revenues, while rural society achieved a certain degree of autonomy through the transformation o G reen Crop Societies.

摘要： 华北青苗会组织的历史至少可追溯至19世纪初。早期的青苗会只是结构松散的临时看青组织。19世纪中期以降,以征派差徭为契机,青苗会逐渐演变为担负村庄各项公务且结构严密的村落自治组织。这一演变折射出咸同年间国家与乡村社会之间的新动向国家不断深入地方以攫取财源,乡村社会则在改造青苗会加以应对的同时实现了一定的自治。