面对明代政治生态恶化与南赣流民危机，王阳明巡抚南赣时制定《南赣乡约》,实现从“得君行道”到“觉民行道”的转向。《南赣乡约》以唤醒民众内在道德重建基层秩序，具体路径包括：政治层面践行“以民为本”,奠定治理合法性基础；德治层面，以德为重“致良知”;自治层面，借助“官督民办”,实现对官府权力的制衡；法治层面，坚持“以法为纲”,维系基层社会的稳定。《南赣乡约》的实践智慧，通过“以民为本”落实以人民为中心的发展思想、“以德化民”铸就社会文明新风尚、“多元共治”激活基层自治动力、“以法为纲”维护基层秩序，为完善当代基层治理提供了宝贵的历史经验，也有利于中华优秀传统文化在当代的创造性转化与创新性发展。

Faced with the deteriorating political ecology of the Ming dynasty and the crisis of displaced populations in southern Jiangxi, Wang Yangming, during his tenure as Governor of Southern Jiangxi, formulated Nangan Community Compact, marking a strategic turn from “realizing the Way through the sovereign”(dejun xingdao) to “realizing the Way through awakening the people”(juemin xingdao). Nangan Community Compact sought to rebuild grassroots order by awakening the people's inner morality. Its specific approaches include: at the political level, practicing “people-oriented governance” to establish the legitimacy of governance; at the moral level, prioritizing virtue and “extending innate knowledge”; at the self-governance level, employing a model of “official supervision and civil operation” to counterbalance governmental authority; and at the legal level, adhering to “law as the framework” to maintain stability at the grassroots. The practical wisdom of Nangan Community Compact offers valuable historical lessons for contemporary grassroots governance, by “implementing people-oriented governance” to actualize the people-centered development philosophy, by “transforming the people through virtue” to foster new trends in social civility, by “pluralistic co-governance” to invigorate grassroots self-governance, and by “law as the framework” to uphold grassroots order. These insights also facilitate the creative transformation and innovative development of China's outstanding traditional culture in the present era.