清水江流域系我国南方重要的营林基地之一。历史上,这一地区森林茂密、木材种类丰富、林木买卖频繁,很早就留下了一批官私文献,引起了学界关注。但到目前为止,学界的关注点主要集中在民间林契的整理研究上,对其他相关文献资料系统梳理存在严重不足,为此对清水江流域林业历史文献展开分类系统梳理,并就建国以来的相关研究成果做出全面述评,这对我国西南地区林业史、经济史,民族史研究将大有裨益。
The Qingshui River Basin is one of the important afforestation bases in South China. In history, this region was once lush in dense forest, rich in wood species and busy in wood trade, leaving a large number of early official and private records and arousing concerns in academic circles. But so far, the academic circles are interested only in the collation and research of the existing forestry contracts in this area without sufficient atten- tion to the carding of other relevant documents. Based on this situation, research has been conducted in classi- fied teasing of its historical documents and a comprehensive review of the relevant research findings since the founding of the PRC has been made. This will be of great advantage to the study of the history of forestry, econo- my and nationality in the Southwest of China.