清代至民国时期滇西民间田产的财产属性——镇南县李如松家族契约文书的整理研究

On Property Attributes of Land of Folks in West Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty through the Period of Republic of China——Sorting and Research of Contracts of Family of Li Rusong of Zhennan County

本文通过对今南华县下村原李如松家族的123份契约文书进行解读,重点讨论滇西民间田产的财产属性问题。这是一套非常完整的家族契约,并且是一个乡村社会中典型商户的生活记录,从中可以看出清代至民国时期田产如何转化为现银以及乡村社会结构中民间商户投融资的过程,通过田产转化实现保值增值的记录仍是清晰可见的,这是一套难得的解读滇西乡村社会生活的实物材料。

By interpreting 123 contracts of the family of Li Rusong of Xia Village,Nanhua County,this paper analyzes the property attributes of land of the folks of west Yunnan.These contracts form a complete collection of a family’s contracts that record the life of a typical merchant family in the rural society.They show us how land was exchanged into silver(currency at that time),how folk merchants in the rural social strata invested and raised funds,and how they avoided depreciation or even achieved appreciation by converting land into other forms of property.These contracts are valuable literature to understand rural social life in west Yunnan.