河西地区是西夏重要的组成区域,西夏的统治政策和方式、河西的历史和现实,使河西地区的基层社会表现出一些特征:政治上乡里制度的实行并辅之以部落制度,经济发展中农牧业、手工业的不同表现,使乡里基层管理人员、部落的中小首领等成为官府与民户之间的中介,并且形成一定的地方力量。佛教的兴盛,也使基层社会深深地打上宗教的印迹。 Hexi Corridor is an important part of Xixia. The policies and ways of reign of Xixia and the history and reality of Hexi Corridor showed that the grassroots society in Hexi Corridor showed some characteristics: the implementation of the system of politics in the township, supplemented by the tribal system and the economic development of the middle peasants Animal husbandry, handicrafts, different performance, so that the township grass-roots management personnel, tribal leaders and other small and medium-sized government and households as an intermediary, and the formation of certain local forces. The prosperity of Buddhism has also deeply impressed the grassroots society with religious impressions.