晚明的历史一向为史家所重视,而崇祯史以及明亡的原因,作为其中的组成部分和突出问题,得到了广泛的关注,从政治、经济、军事等多个方面进行考察,为人们揭示了一个王朝的衰亡及其原因。但既往的研究较少关注到明清易代之际人们对灾异的重视——这一时期的野史笔记几乎没有不涉及灾异的。这种现象,其思想背景可能有非理性成分,却是当时人们的另一种对现实和历史的解读,真切地反应了人们对“天意”的追寻和将其作为变革原因的实情。为此,本文拟以明清之际野史笔记中对崇祯时期灾异的记录为研究重点,探讨其如何记录和解读这些灾异,进而为观察明亡的原因提供另一个视角。一灾异是古人对自然界和社会异常现象的统称,这些现象在后世看来或许只是反映了一种变 The history of the late Ming Dynasty has always been valued by the historians, and the history of Chongzhen and the reasons for the death of Ming Dynasty have been widely concerned as an integral part and prominent issue in the history of the Ming dynasty. The investigation has been conducted from the aspects of politics, economy and military affairs so as to reveal the people The decline of a dynasty and its causes. However, previous studies have paid little attention to the importance people attach to disasters during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This kind of phenomenon may have irrational elements in its ideological background, but it is another interpretation of reality and history of people at that time, which truly reflects the people’s pursuit of “God’s Will” and the fact that they are the reasons for the change. Therefore, this article intends to focus on the records of the disaster records in the Chongzhen Period in the notes of the Unofficial History in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and discusses how to record and interpret these disasters so as to provide another perspective for observing the causes of death. A disaster is the ancients on the natural world and social anomalies collectively, these phenomena may seem only later in life to reflect a change