明清土司司所志编纂研究

Tusi Residency Records Compilation and Research in Ming and Qing Dynasty

土司司所志是土司辖区重要文献,明清时期广泛分布于今我国西南、中南以及中南半岛北部区域。上级志书编修需要、展示守土之责、表彰祖先功绩是其编纂的三大动力,纂修人员构成中基本都包含土司家族成员,编纂体例与府州厅县志无异,但拥有“世系”“土兵”“土司家族契约文书”等特色篇目。对照传统府州厅县志,土司司所志具有家族性、民族性、多元性等特点,在西南史地、边疆以及方志研究中具有重要文献价值。

Tusi(appointed hereditary local chieftains in some ethnic minorities)residency records are important literature of tusi's administrative region,which were widely distributed during Ming and Qing Dynasties in the southwest,and central south of our country and the northern regions of the Indo-China Peninsula.The three driving forces behind compilations of such records include upper-level requiring local records compilation,responsibility of defending the territory,and commending ancestors"achievements.The composition of compilers almost invariably include members of the tusi's clan.The compilation style has no difference with fu,zhou,ting,and county records,except that tusi residency records include featured chapters such as"Family Lineage","Local Soldiery",and"The Tusi Family's Documentary Records".In comparison with traditional fu,zhou,ting,county records,tusi's residency records have featured contents in family and clan,in ethnicity and of pluralism,which have important value as historical materials for research in southwest history and geography,border areas,and local records.