有冤难申终和解——清水江文书所见清代一桩风水纠纷事详解

Injustice Difficult to Apply,but finally Ended Peacefully——A Study about a Geomancy Dispute of QingShui River’s Instruments in the Qing Dynasty

通过对清水江文书中约38份契约文书的分析与解读,论述了清道光年间该地区所发生的一起风水纠纷。原告吴成思等为保护高良山风水在寻求民间调解无果的情况下不断上告,但由于受到被告杨远昌等人的百般阻挠而有冤难申。最终,由于种种原因,加之多方从中调解,吴杨二姓走向和解。案件本身较为完整,有很强的故事性、启发性,可谓是清代民族地区一桩典型的风水纠纷事件。反映了清代中期风水文化对贵州少数民族地区的影响,也说明民间习惯法在处理乡村社会风水纠纷中所具有的特殊价值,值得借鉴。

Based on the analysis and interpretation of about 38 copies of instruments in the QingShui river basin,this paper discusses the geomancy dispute in the area during the Daoguang Qing dynasty.The plaintiff Wu Chengsi to protect the Gao Liangshan’s geomancy in the search for civil mediation without the case of fruitless,due to the Yang Yuanchang’s defendant and other obstruction and injustice.Finally,due to various reasons,coupled with the mediation from the parties,Wu Yang surname to reconciliation.The case itself is more complete,there is a strong story,inspiration,can be described as a typical geomancy disputes in the Qing minority areas.It reflects the influence of the geomancy culture on the minority areas in Guizhou in the middle period of the Qing Dynasty.And also shows that the special value of the folk customary law in dealing with the geomancy disputes in the rural society.