清水江文书以遗存量大、归户性极强及丰富的少数民族地区经济社会史信息,成为中国文书的突出特征。同样,清水江文书又为观察中国古代契约文书在少数民族地区使用分布提供了新素材:从文书原生性看,明代清水江契约契式是国内成熟文书契式的翻版,因而清水江文书是中国文书契式演变过程的特殊形态;清水江文书存在着多重命名,是其"文书生态多因子性"的表现,尤其是其显示的传统产生形态与民族政治地理分布格局在中国文书分布上独具一格;清水江文书学术史上的各种称谓,都有其合理性,但"清水江文书"由于涵盖了"文书生态多因子性"而是最佳命名。
Without any doubt, Qingshui River documents have been outstanding in China" s various documents for its huge quantities, strong household classifying character, and the abundant economic and social history information about minority ethnic groups areas. Meanwhile, Qingshui River docu- ments provide new materials for observing the use and distribution of ancient China' s Contract Docu- ments in minority ethnic groups areas. From the originality of the documents, the Qingshui River con- tract pattern in Ming Dynasty was the copy of the country' s mature contract pattern; therefore, the Qingshui River documents were the special form of Chinese document pattern' s transformation. There were multiple names for Qingshui River documents, which were the manifestation of "multi - factors of document ecology". Especially the traditional production model and ethnic political and geographical distribution pattern were unique in the distribution of China' s documents. The various titles of Qing- shui River documents in academic history all had their reasonability, while for covering "multi -fac- tors of document ecology", the title "Qingshui River documents" could be called the best.