已知清末、民国间常州地区刻印的宝卷有30种,主要是有民间教团背景的经房、善书局刊印的。它们与同期江浙地区数十家经房、善书局刻印的宝卷一样,表明在社会大变革、大动乱时期,这些民间教团以倡导“劝善”、宣扬“因果”的面目出现,求得士绅阶层和清政府的认同和支持,一方面宣传它们的教义和修持方式,扩大影响,同时又极力宣扬儒家的纲常名教、伦理道德,参与重振宗法社会秩序的活动。 It is known that in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there were 30 kinds of precious volumes inscribed in the Changzhou area, which were mainly printed by the Civil Affairs Corps with good background and good books. They were the same as the volumes engraved by dozens of good houses and good bookstores in the same period in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, indicating that during the period of great social changes and great turmoil, these non-governmental ecclesiastical groups advocated “encouraging good people” and promoting the “cause and effect” Emerged and won the approval and support of the gentry class and the Qing government. On the one hand, they propagandized their doctrines and methods of practice and expanded their influence. At the same time, they tried hard to preach Confucian scholarly ethics and ethics and participated in the activity of revitalizing the social order in the patriarchal clan.