The literary documents found in Qingshuijiang Region are the civil contract documents second largest in number to those found in Huizhou. The discovery has not only enriched or developed the materials to enhance our understanding of the civil rights and civil law system in China at that time, but also enriched or ex- panded study domain in the social and economic history from the Ming and the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China; not only provided the evidences as a data source for multidisciplinary research, but also laid down the foundation for the international school of Qingshuijiang Studies. A serious and substantial study of how to catalog and how to understand the Qingshuijiang literary documents will demonstrate new achievements and new materials for the study of Chinese ancient philology but also tell us that there is a need to set up new programs for the fundamental studies of local philology. Scholars should be called for to carry out pioneering work for it.%清水江文书是徽州文书之后，目前所见第二大民间契约文书系统。它不仅充实或完善了中国民事法权体系的认知内容，而且丰富或扩大了明清以迄民国社会经济史的探讨题域，既提供了多学科交叉研究的资料来源凭借，也初步奠定了形成国际性显学——清水江学——的基础。扎实认真地开展清水江文书的整理研究工作，不仅标志着中国古文书学又有了新的资料与成果的积累，而且象征着创建乡土文献学基础学科已势在必行，必须凝聚各方面的力量开展前期性的拓荒工作。
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