近年来对于中古宗族的历史学研究,普遍陷入了一种不可解脱的范式,即选题的断代化取向和研究内容的模式化论述。然而,中国历史上的宗族问题,并不是有局限性的个案研究所能够彻底解决的。一个宗族能够延续上百上千年的历史,自然与其自身所具有的伸缩性有关,但更重要的是宗族内部的及时转型。笔者认为,若从时段的长短来考察,转型 In recent years, historians of the Middle Patriarchal clan have generally fallen into an irreversible paradigm, that is, the substitutive orientation of the topics and the stylized discourse of the research content. However, the clan question in Chinese history is not solved completely by the limited case studies. A clan can continue for hundreds of thousands of years of history, naturally, with its own scalability, but more important is the clan within the timely transformation. The author believes that if the length of time to examine the transition