Textual criticism to the name of Huizhou Millennium Contract Documents

The paper corrects some language errors made by former scholars in their collation and research of Huizhou contract documents,and explains the causes for those errors,thus recovering their original visage.

This paper has affirmed Huizhou documents historical data value and academic value,outlined the Huizhou document classification and study situation.

So far the academic circles haven t agreed on a unified measuring standard of Huizhou documents,whereas this is a problem that should be solved first in the collection of Huizhou documents.

The fundamental reason that the studies of Huizhou has become a new sub discipline lies in the discovery of the Huizhou documents.

The historical value of the contracts discovered in Dajue temple in Beijing is discussed in this article on the basis of credible record of economic activity of temples in Beijing in Qing dynasty, epitome of economic activity in Beijing in Qing dynasty and the authentic recordation of history of Beijing Dajue temple.

By reading and classifying the genealogies and contracts in Huizhou,it can help us to know more about complemental authority between clan and government.