Abstract:

As an importantpart of cultural tradition,ordeal has a great ordering power in Miao villages,which maintains structural stability,community order and justice in a non-centralized society.However,the constraint force and proto-genetic ordering drive effect of ordeal ordering power has inevitably declined in the modern social transformation,a doomed result when the validity and dignity of ordeal and punishment meet with modern knowledge.

Key words: ordeal, ordering drive, constraint force, declining evolution；the Miao people