20世纪初黑水城文献被发现后,学界凭借对黑水城西夏遗存文书的研究,开始对西夏社会有比较全面的认识。关于西夏户籍文书的研究,俄国学者克恰诺夫开始的最早。中国学者史金波也对黑水城出土的西夏社会文书进行了深入研究。近年来,学者也开始通过黑水城发现的汉文献研究西夏乃至元代的户籍制度。 After the discovery of the Heishui City literature in the early 20th century, the academic community began to have a more comprehensive understanding of Xixia society by virtue of the research on the preserved documents in the West Xia of Heishui City. On the Xixia instrument of household registration, the earliest Russian scholar 克坎诺夫. Shi Jinbo, a Chinese scholar, also conducted an in-depth study of the social documents unearthed in the West Lake in Heishui City. In recent years, scholars have also started to study the hukou system in Xixia and Yuan Dynasty through the Han literature discovered in Heishui.