搜集第一手文献资料是历史研究的基础工作,从事社会史的研究,莫不希望能从新出土之史料来重构地方社会的历史。十几年来,笔者在云南大理地区进行历史考察,偶在乡村耆老家中访谈,或在地方图书馆,文管所借阅地方档案,若有族谱几份、零星契纸,便顿觉欣喜。然而,地方档案与民间文书的可贵之处,在于它们使研究者得以贴近地方社会的脉络与民间氛围,来思考历史并进行历史解释,但同时也往往因为材料零散民间各处,使得史料收集的工作旷日费时。这几年来,大理地区契约文书典藏的情形仅止于传闻,除偶见之零星片纸外,难有整批完整的古契见世,这批称为“鹤庆契约文书”的收录与整理,算是一个开 Collecting first-hand literature and information is the basic work of historical research, engaged in the study of social history, do not want to be able to reconstruct the history of local society from the newly unearthed historical data. For more than a decade, I conducted historical investigations in Dali, Yunnan Province. I even interviewed elderly people in rural areas or borrowed local archives from local libraries. However, the valuable features of local archives and folklore are that they allow researchers to think about history and make historical explanations close to the context and civil atmosphere of local society, but at the same time they tend to collect data collected by historical sources Time-consuming and time-consuming work. In recent years, the collection of contract documents in the Dali district has been limited to rumors. It is difficult to find a complete set of ancient lends except for sporadic pieces of paper even occasionally, which are collectively referred to as “Heqing Contract Documents” And finishing, regarded as an open