贵州省黔东南州锦屏县河口乡加池寨、南路寨、岩湾寨所保存的清代以来的契约文书及其碑刻,展示了清水江流域因木材繁荣而带来的外来移民和族群互动关系的大致情形,从中可以了解区域社会以木材种植和采运为中心的经济生活之外,本地乡民在村落生活的其他方面是如何与沿清水江下游逆流而上的外来移民进行交流、互动和博弈的,外来移民是如何取得当地入住权、并与当地乡民共同经营开发这一区域,在这一过程中当地乡民又是如何与国家王朝力量互动,形成一种互相利用的关系,进而促进并保持了区域社会的和谐稳定。
Contract documents and inscriptions in Jiachi, Nanlu and Yanwan villages, Qindongnan, Guizhou, reveals the rough interaction situation of migrations and local inhabitants during the prosperous time of wood trade. Local residents, on the one hand, lives social economic life of cultivating, cutting, transporting, and trading of China fir, on the other hand, they have to cope with these people from the town down the river. During this process, the residents and the migrations demonstrate a picture of how different groups communicate, interact, and compete with each other. In the same time, the migrations use their wisdom to get the inhabitation right and the right to develop this hills and fields to survive in this new land. In this complicated process, what the relation between the official power and the residents is like.? How both of them interleave in order to come to an agreement to keep the society harmonious.