民间历史文献的整理出版及其学术意义

Arrangement and Publication as Academic Events: An Introduction to Folk Historical Documents

民间历史文献是生成于民间、使用于民间和保存于民间的反映民间社会经济活动的原始记录,具有原始性、真实性、稀有性和不可再生性等特点。改革开放以来,民间历史文献不断被发掘、整理和出版,积累了丰富的整理经验,形成了民间历史文献整理的基本原则,即原真性原则、完整性原则、系统性原则。学者与出版社通力合作,开发、整理、出版了一系列民间历史文献资料,促进了学术研究的深化与发展,推动了学术研究范式的转型,拓宽了学术研究的领域,实现了研究方法的突破,为学术研究的发展做出了应有的贡献。把民间历史文献置于已有的史实中解读,并将其与传世文献以及其他文献相印证,将发挥更大的价值。

Folk historical documents,being original,authentic,rare and non-renewable,are the original records of social and economic activities of the folk,which are generated,used and preserved among the folk.Since 1978,the documents have been continuously excavated,sorted out and published in China,and rich sorting experience has been accumulated,thus forming the basic principles of arranging the documents,namely,the principles of authenticity,integrity and systematization.Scholars and publishing houses have so far cooperated to develop,sort out and publish a series of relevant documents,which contribute to accelerating the development of academic researches,facilitating the transformation of academic research paradigm,broadening the field of academic researches and realizing the breakthrough of research methods.It is of greater value to interpret folk historical documents in the existing historical facts and confirm them with the transmitted documents and other documents.