徽州文书与徽学

The Huizhou Documents and the Studies of Huizhou

徽学之所以成为一门新学科 ,根本原因是大量徽州文书的发现 ;没有徽州文书 ,就不可能出现徽学。徽州文书现存约 2 0万件 ,内容涉及徽州社会生活的方方面面 ,具有启发性、连续性、具体性、真实性和典型性等特点。正是由于徽州文书的学术价值被发现 ,才出现了以徽州文书研究为中心、综合研究社会实态、探寻中国古代社会后期发展变化规律的新学科———徽学。

The fundamental reason that the studies of Huizhou has become a new sub discipline lies in the discovery of the Huizhou documents. Amounting to about 200 thousand, these documents tell about almost every aspect in the social life of that prefecture in a continuous sequence with realistic, specific and typical details, and are thus very inspiring. It was the discovery of the academic values of these documents that has touched off the emergence of this new sub discipline to explore in a comprehensive mann...