清水江流域系云贵高原向湘西丘陵的过渡地带,这一地区气候温暖湿润,为我国南方重要的人工林产区。宋代就有了林木贸易的记载,明代中期后,当地居民就开始了植树造林,清雍正年间,随着苗疆的开辟,当地林木贸易大盛,留下了大批立足于地方习惯法签署的契约文书。这些文书系统反映了该区域民族、经济、社会发展及林木生产的社会规约等问题,是民族文化遗产的重要组成部分。本文即以清水江流域保存下来的林业契约文书为研究对象,并参阅清代至民国时期的地方志书,以揭示其林木生产的社会规约,冀以为我国当前的生态建设、经济建设服务。
As the transition zone between the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Western Hunan Hills,the Qingshuijiang River Basin is an important forestry plantation area in South China with a warm and humid climate.Timber trade in this area was recorded as early as from the Song Dynasty.From the middle age of the Ming Dynasty,local residents began planting trees.To the reign of Emperor Yongzheng during the Qing Dynasty,local timber trade flourished with the exploitation of the region,leaving a large number of signed contract documents based on the local customary laws.As Inseparable ingredient of the local cultural heritages,the documents reflect a series of phenomena in terms of ethnic,economic,and social development in the region as well as social conventions about forest production.In order to reveal such social conventions,the study,based on the preserved forestry contract documents in the Qingshuijiang River Basin and the local chronicles from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China,is to provide valuable recommendations for the current ecological and economic construction in China.