浙江明清契约文书研究综述

A Summary of the Research of the Contracts in the Ming and Qing Dynasties of Zhejiang

自20世纪80年代以来,明清土地契约文书越来越被学者所关注,逐渐成为显学,其中以傅衣凌、杨国祯等为代表。当时他们的目光主要集中在徽州、福建等地的契约文书上,浙江的契约文书仅被零星提到。随着研究的不断深入,一批浙江地方契约文书的专辑、图录及相关论述纷纷面世,如宁波、绍兴、松阳等地契约整理研究的成果。民间契约文书的整理研究,是相当辛苦的一项工作,但意义重大。浙江省博物馆藏有大量的契约文书,目前正在整理当中。在此,对近年来浙江明清契约文书的搜集、整理和研究情况作一梳理回顾,以便为将来进一步的研究提供参考与借鉴。

Since the 80s of last century, more and more scholars have been paying attention to the contracts in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Amongst those scholars, Fu Yiling and Yang Guozhen are the most famous ones.In the 80s, those scholars mainly focused on the contracts found in Huizhou, Fujian and other places.Seldom contracts found in Zhejiang were mentioned in their research.However, with the deepening of their research, they gradually released some collections, catalogs and dissertations of land contracts found in Zhejiang, including some research results from collecting and sorting contracts found in Ningbo, Shaoxing, Songyang and etc.The collecting and sorting of contracts is a very tiring job, but it has significant meanings.Zhejiang Provincial Museum has a collection of lots of contracts of ancient times and their staff are currently busy with sorting them.Considering this situation, it is necessary for us to look back the history of collecting, sorting the contracts of Ming and Qing Dynasties which will be helpful for further research and references.