清水江文书最大特征之一就是它在当前中国各地发现的契约文书中存量最多,又由于其中土地买卖及相关契约文书占多数,在研究中国土地制度史方面有特别的意义。赵世瑜先生针对利用清水江土地文书研究贵州黔东南民族地区的土地制度是"五朵金花的余绪"、是受"国家为历史主体或出发点的历史叙述影响"的两点指责,前者是在观念上混淆了历史的真实与研究方法教条间的关系作出的误断或强加;后者则是在不具备实证的清水江流域明代以来社会历史发展知识下,作出的主观臆测。如果赵先生在没有对清水江文书及产生清水江文书的背景有真正了解情况下,就用"我们的史学"的要求给予指导,可能对清水江文书研究没有多大的实际意义。
One of the biggest features of Qingshuijiang documents is that it accounts for the majority among the entire contract document found in China. In the Qingshuijiang documents,there are more contents referring to the land transaction and related land contracts than other documents; therefore,it has important significance for research on history of land system in China. In terms of the Qingshuijiang land documents,Professor Zhao Shiyu gave his comments on the current researches of land system in Qiandongnan prefecture of Guizhou province,that is,the relic of"five golden flowers",and historical narrative influence of the country as historical subject or starting point. This paper thinks that in the first comment,Professor Zhao Shiyu confused the truth of history and the relationship between research methods. As for the second comment,Professor Zhao gave his conjecture without verifying the social historical development of Qingshuijiang region since Ming Dynasty. Just taking the historical knowledge as guidance without enough background information about Qingshuijiang documents,the research cannot explore the historical connotation of Qingshuijiang documents.