编者按:最近20年来,学术界在明清民间宗教文书的发掘抢救与公布或出版方面,取得了长足进展。这一领域长期以来以私藏文献为主的“史料学”格局已被打破,海内外越来越多的学者开始关注和研究这方面的问题。但总的来说,由于民间文献一向没有所谓的官方定本,又缺乏系统的整理,因此研究者在如何认识新发现民间文献上,尚存在不少争议。为了让学界更多地了解这方面的新发现史料及新议题,本刊选编 Editor’s note: In the recent 20 years, the academic community has made great strides in the excavation, publication and publication of folk religious documents in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The historical data pattern, which has long been dominated by private collections, has been broken. More and more scholars at home and abroad have begun to pay attention to and study the problems in this field. However, in general, there is still a lot of controversy over how to recognize the newly discovered folk literature because of the fact that there is no so-called official version of the non-governmental literature and a lack of systematic collation. In order to let the academic community know more about the newly discovered historical materials and new topics in this field, we selected the editors