清代民国时期徽州地区冥契文书探析——以中国人民大学博物馆藏徽州冥契为例

A Study of the Mingqi Documents in Huizhou during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China:Based on the Case of Documents Stored in the Museum of Renmin University of China

在徽州社会生活中,丧葬活动占据重要地位。在以往研究中,往往以方志、族谱、时人文集等史料为基本材料,存在资料不够完整、清晰、具体等问题。卷帙浩繁的徽州文书档案遗存为徽州世俗生活研究提供了大量翔实的实例资料,弥补了传世史籍文献的不足。中国人民大学博物馆藏徽州文书中的纸质冥契是一种特殊丧葬文书档案.对其进行著录分析,为考察清末民国时期徽州地区丧葬习俗提供了新的史料依据。作为买地券的一种重要形式,徽州地区纸质冥契的发现.说明从清代开始这一地区买地券的使用方式发生了变化,在文本和内涵上都反映出强烈的世俗化倾向。

In Huizhou social life,funeral activities occupy an important position.In the past studies,local chronicles,genealogy,time anthology and other historical materials were often used as the basic materials,but the data were not complete,clear and specific.The voluminous remains of Huizhou documents and archives provide a large number of detailed examples for the study of Huizhou secular life and make up for the lack of handed down historical documents.The paper inscriptions in the Huizhou Documents collected in the Museum of Renmin University of China are a kind of special funeral documents.The description and analysis of these documents provide a new historical basis for investigating the funeral customs in Huizhou area in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.As an important form of the Land Purchase Certificate,the discovery of paper deed in Huizhou area shows that the use of the Land Purchase Certificate in this area has changed since the Qing Dynasty,reflecting a strong secularization tendency in both text and connotation.