黄册是明王朝用来记载、管理全国户口、土地、财粮和征收、核对赋税徭役的一种册籍和工具。明初,为了把被豪强地主和旧贵族隐占的劳动力夺回来归由封建国家管理,把游离于田地之外的流民重新引导到农业生产上去,尽快谋求社会秩序的安定,实现“田野辟、户口增”的愿望,调整了户籍管理政策和办法,从洪武十四年(1381年)始,下令在全国范围内大规模地编造黄册。“册面黄纸,故谓之黄 The Yellow Book is a book and tool used by the Ming dynasty to record and manage the nation’s hukou, land, grain, and levies and to verify taxes and corvee. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in order to reclaim the labor hidden by the mighty landlords and the old aristocrats, they should be managed by the feudal state to redirect migrants who are free from the fields to agricultural production and seek the stability of social order as soon as possible so as to realize “ Increase ”the desire to adjust the household registration management policies and methods, from Hongwu fourteen years (1381), ordered the large-scale nationwide preparation of yellow book. Yellow paper album, so that the yellow