| Census register is one of the important special archives in ancient China, the yellow register documents of Ming Dynasty is typical in the history of register records. Our archival community has many gaps in research field of Chinese Archival history, study on the Ming Dynasty census register system can enrich theoretical results of Ancient specialized field of archives, with the value of academic research and practical significance. This article on the census register system background, establishment principle and the content of the system were described in detail. The Ming Dynasty census register system is formed by the serial demand. The census register system to centralized and unified management for the establishment of principles, but in the centralized and unified management background, the file management system of Ming Dynasty census register is double parallel policy. This paper made from saving life, collection, record, process flow, identification--big check and barge volumes, statistical, warehouse--yellow book library, management personnel, financial, legal, the Treasury security protection, classification, daily maintenance, use the system in the yellow book system preparation, collection system and the yellow book library management system two aspects made a comprehensive, systematic introduction. Through the study of all aspects of the census register system, evaluation of the Ming Dynasty census register system, that the census register system is huge, is rich in resources; strict, scientific management, and work hard to maintain the integrity and security of a huge number of census register personnel archives work; census register with census function and strong deterrent., played an important role in the maintenance of household stability and the security of government departments run; census register system in the implementation of human factors and the discount. At the end, compared the Ming Dynasty and the new Chinese census register archives management, to explore the effect of the census register system to the modern household registration archives. |
