在上世纪90年代以来的史学发展中,国家制度史向基层社会史的延伸,传统典藏文献和民间文献的并重,日益成为中国史研究的新趋势。在这种发展趋势中,“眼光向下”、“走向历史现场”成为研究者崇尚的理念,“区域”也成为一种实践性的分析工具。本文拟对区域社会史视野下的契约研究进行简要的回顾与评估。关于民间契约文书的研究,在国内学者中,对于契约文书关注的发端应起于傅衣凌先生对于福建文书的研究,1此后杨国桢的《明清土地 In the development of historiography since the 1990s, the extension of the history of the state system to the grass-roots social history, the equalization of the traditional archival literature and the folk literature have increasingly become the new trend in the study of Chinese history. In this trend of development, “look down ”, “to the scene of history ” has become the concept advocated by researchers, “area ” has also become a practical analytical tools. This article intends to make a brief review and appraisal of the contractual research from the perspective of social history in the region. In the study of civil contract documents, among the domestic scholars, the origin of the contract documents should start from the study of Mr. Fu Yiling on the documents of Fujian Province. 1 Since then, Yang Guozhen’s "Land of Ming and Qing Dynasties