20世纪50年代之后,特别是20世纪80年代以来,美籍华人学者何炳棣就中国历代土地数字等问题多次发表论著,对中国史籍中记载的土地数字提出质疑,并得出一系列新结论。其中特别提出了明初全国土地丈量及其编制的鱼鳞图册根本不是史实而是传奇的论断。洪武时期的土地丈量及其攒造的鱼鳞图册,作为明代社会经济史上的一件大事,历来受到人们的关注,学者亦多持肯定观点。那么,它到底是史实还是传奇?其真相究竟如何?这无疑是应该作进一步探究的课题。 Since the 1950s, and especially since the 1980s, the Chinese-American scholar He Bingdi has published numerous articles on land numbers in Chinese history. He questioned the land records recorded in Chinese historical records and came to a series of new conclusions. In particular, it put forward that the measurement of land at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty and the fish scale atlases it compiled were not historical facts at all but the legendary thesis. The survey of land in Hongwu period and its saved scale book, as a major event in the socio-economic history of the Ming Dynasty, have always attracted the attention of people and many scholars still hold affirmative opinions. So, it is the historical facts or the legend? What is the truth? This is undoubtedly the subject that should be further explored.