Primary Exploration About Some Sales Contract Documents Remaining In Huizhou From Song Dynasty To Qing Dynasty

Huizhou, a place located in the southern part of Anhui province, Therefore, its economy and culture are relatively developed. Meanwhile, some contract documents which refer to land sale, land price, farmland production, tenancy relationship and patriarchal system, become crucial historical materials for us to study local social and economic life. What we have already found is that contract documents remaining in Huizhou from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty have a large quantity and complete type. This paper selects elaborately several typical contract documents, varying about hundreds years, including many details, thus playing a significant role for us to study the land system, agricultural management system, land tax system and legal system from Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. In addition, this paper analyzes primarily the historical significance included in these contract documents from different periods and comes up with my own statement. Based on comprehensive comparison about contract documents which are pertinent to transaction, this paper aims at putting forward a theoretical framework to have a good knowledge of these contract documents’characteristics.