两湖地区是一个典型的移民社会。明清时期以江西籍为主的移民进入两湖，完成迁移与定居，在农业开发中从冲突走向融合，构建起稳定的多中心互嵌的秩序形态。这种秩序形态，是在以北方政权为中心的大共同体形态和以南方血亲为纽带的宗族小共同体形态之外的又一种乡村秩序形态类型。

The society located in the area of Hubei and Hunan is typically immigrant. The people mostly came from Jiangxi province and completed their migration and settlement during the Ming and Qing period. In the process of agricultural development they came from conflict to integration and rebuilding of a stable, polycentric mutual embedded order. This form was another village type of order compared with north China and south China. In north China, it was political power as the center of a large community, and in south China, it was small communities oriented along blood lines as a link to clans.