Study On The Land Purchase Certificatein Ming Dynasty

Buying land coupons is a kind of burial utensil in ancient China.Among them,the research of buying land voucher in Ming Dynasty is of great academic significance in promoting the research of the mortuary culture,religious belief,social status,contract change and so on.Therefore,this paper takes the unearthed Ming Dynasty land purchase certificates as the research object,on the basis of persisting in the positive history,drawing lessons from the method of mathematical statistics,systematically combs the space-time distribution,the shape and quality,the writing format,the content and the type of the certificates,then summed up the Ming Dynasty to buy land voucher significance.First of all,in terms of spatial distribution,the unearthed Ming Dynasty land purchase certificates reflect the popularity of this custom in the areas directly under the central government of the Ming Dynasty,especially in the areas of Sichuan,Hubei,Jiangsu and Jiangxi,and in direct proportion to the socio-economic development.There is no uniform requirement on form and quality and writing style,which is mostly influenced by the contract and Stele style.The content of the paper mainly includes the funeral director,the Gods and ghosts,and the rituals and functions of buying land coupons.Among them,according to the identity of the voucher owners,it was found that the custom was generally accepted by all classes in the Ming Dynasty;It also reflects that Buddhism,Taoism and Chinese ancient folk beliefs had "confluence" in the Ming Dynasty.Secondly,there are various types of land purchase certificates in the Ming Dynasty.Including: According to the three types of books written template for buying land coupons,they can be divided into "geography new book" type,"the original notes of the grave" type and "three yuan notes" type;According to the number of documents,the paper divided into single-coupon type and double-coupon type,according to the number of land purchase money type and the virtual money type and the current money type,and according to the death of the owner of the tomb type and hidden.Finally,buying land coupons in the Ming Dynasty is of great significance in sociology,folklore,contract history and religious history.The purchase of land coupons in the Ming Dynasty reveals the declining status of the social customs in the middle and late Ming Dynasty,reflects the cognition of filial piety among the people in the Ming Dynasty,and is also a new explanation of the ancient people's thought of "everything is as good as life" and a direct embodiment of the phenomenon of the folk worship of Feng Shui in the Ming Dynasty.In addition,the evolution of the types of land purchase certificates in the Ming Dynasty indirectly reflects the evolution of the modern contract,and at the same time witnesses the stable inheritance and integration of religions.