新史料的发现,无疑有助于学术积累的增长和新研究领域之开拓,就中国古文书而言,敦煌文书之于敦煌学,徽州文书之于徽学,即是显著例证。而近年来各地不断涌现的地方档案文书及各类民间文献,藉之展开经济史、历史人类学、地域社会史、社会文化史等领域的研究,无疑是中国历史学界目前最为引人注目的学术亮点之一。清水江文书的发现、整理与研究,正是这一学术亮点的组成部分。清水江文书,是指明代以来遗存于贵州黔东南少数民族地区的民间历史文献之总 The discovery of new historical materials undoubtedly contributes to the growth of academic accumulation and the development of new fields of research. As far as Chinese ancient documents are concerned, the Dunhuang documents are of great evidence in Dunhuang Studies and Huizhou instruments in Huizhou Studies. In recent years, local archives and various kinds of non-governmental documents that are constantly appearing in various places have been used to carry out researches in the fields of economic history, historical anthropology, regional social history, and social culture history. This is undoubtedly the most striking academic study in Chinese history One of the highlights. The discovery, collation and research of Qingshuijiang instruments are precisely part of this academic highlight. Qingshui River documents, refers to the Ming Dynasty since the remains of Guizhou Qiandongnan minority areas of folk historical literature