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国内学者有关民间法的研究历来是一个经久不衰的话题，热度不减，但是不同的学者总尝试用不同的方法，从不同的视角进行大量有价值的研究。特别是近年来，国家法在中国法治建设新时期遇到了前所未有的挑战，民间法作为国家法乡土化的障碍使国家法一度陷入了法治建设的“困境”。国家法治建设“要求做到规则的统一和国家强制力的垄断，地方性规则在这一过程中要逐渐丧失其正统性和分散性，国家要以一套建构的理想化标准把民众的生活纳入到国家建设的整体进程中。” 在此过程当中，国家法在进入乡土化的“熟人社会”时遇到的阻力可想而知。特别是在笔者生活的甘肃中部农村地区，周围环境中的乡民个体对国家法的概念依然停留在“刑”与“法”的混淆阶段，运用传统农业社会诸如习惯、民俗等核心的民间行为规则来处理邻里纠纷是首要选择。
从另一个角度来说，笔者生活的甘肃中部农村地区是一个经济发展水平比较落后，民族类型较多，文化形态多样化的边远地区。从小生活在汉、藏、回、东乡、土族等民族杂居的社会环境经历，使笔者耳濡目染地接触到了不同民族在真实生产、生活过程中，矛盾纠纷解决中民族习俗惯例的合理运用过程。由部落、寺院及活佛形成的以“吃咒”为核心藏民矛盾纠纷解决机制和社会威望人士形成回族教义内矛盾的调解机制，都是在国家制定法条件下民族地区习俗惯例的延续。从其产生的方式和发挥的社会效用看，实质上就是一种民间法，使调解的过程和结果具有浓郁的地方特色和民族特色。不同地域内民间法对其成员的言行和社会生活秩序起着一定的维护作用，协调着群体利益，并通过约束个体成员的行为而达到社会群体的稳定与整合，使之与国家制定法在维护社会的稳定与国家大法治建设的新法制体系建设领域中起到重要作用，二者之间具体制度架构互动性，值得商榷研究。本文笔者立意法律多元化的立场，在对甘肃中部农村地区进行走访调研的基础上进行了比对分析，试图从甘肃中部民族地区和基层社会入手，尝试找出民间法与国家法融合互动的可能性方法，并找出其相应转化的路径，对新时期甘肃中部偏远农村地区、民族地区国家法乡土化和熟人社会行为规则国家化提供学术理论上的实用性建议。
 

Studies on folk Law of domestic scholars has always been a prolonged topic, however, various studying methods are used by different scholars, who make amount of valuable studies from different perspectives. Especially for recent years, the state law has met the unprecedented challenges in the new period of law construction in China, and the folk law makes the state law into a “dilemma” of law construction for it is the obstacle of the state law becoming localized. Speaking of the national legitimate constructions, it “requires to make the rules unified and the national coercion engrossing, the local rules are gradually losing their legitimacy and dispersivity，during the process, and the nation should bring the people's lives into the overall process of state construction with a set of idealization standards for construction.” In the process of the national legitimate constructions, the challenges that the state law meet in the localized “Acquaintance Society” is not hard to imagine. Especially the rural areas of longzhong in Gansu that the author lives in, in terms of the concept of state law, the surrounding villagers in such an environment are still in a confused status about “punishment” and “law”, therefore, using the core rules of localized conducts such as the habits and folkways to deal with neighborhood disputation is a first choice.
From another point of view, the northwest region that the author lives in is a remote area that the economic development level is relatively backward, national types are relatively rich and the cultures are diversified. Living in a social environment of ethnic hybrid among the nationalities of Han, Tibetan, Hui, Dongxiang, and Tu, etc. makes the author experience the rational application process of national customs and conventions in solving the disputes in the production and living process. The settlement mechanism of the Tibetan people's contradictions and disputes formed by tribes, monasteries and living Buddhas centering on “eating incantation”, and the mediation mechanism of contradictions in the teachings of the Hui nationality formed by social prestige, which are all the continuation of customs and conventions in ethnic areas under the conditions of national statute law. Based on the ways of formulation and the social functions that it exerts, it is actually a kind of folk law, which makes the process and results of the mediation has the strong characteristics of local places and nationalities. The folk laws in different areas are in the function of maintaining the words and deeds of its members and the order of social life, which coordinates the group interests, and restrains the behaviors of the individuals to reach the stability and integration of the social groups in order to make it is functionalized in maintaining the stability of the society, and the construction of new legal system in the construction of the state laws. Between them, there is the interaction of specific institutional framework, which is deserved to be discussed and studied. Based on the visiting researches, the author balances and analyzes the rural areas of longzhong in Gansu from the standpoint of pluralism legal.
The author tries to start with the rural ethnic areas in longzhong of Gansu and the grass-roots society to find the possibility integration and interaction methods for folk law and state law, and find the ways for corresponding transformation, and put forward the practical suggestions for the localization of state law in the remote rural areas and ethnic areas in northwest China, and the nationalization of the rule of conducts in the  Acquaintance Society.