明万历后出现的新型综合性日用类书由于其贴近民间、贴近生活之特性，刊刻热潮持续两三百年之久，并为我们保存了当时社会生活的第一手资料。如今此类书籍散落海内外各地，搜求尤为不便，故学界至今缺乏对其源流变迁全貌进行考察的研究成果，对研究者使用该类文献造成了一定困难。本文通过对明清日用类书的版本进行系统梳理，考察其在各个时间段不同的发展特点及内容变化，揭示出自晚明后，日用类书由最初的百花齐放，逐渐统一定型。为控制成本，增加销量，该类书籍内容量呈逐渐减少态势。内容上，日用类书一直根据时代的变迁及需求的变化而不断改变书中具体内容，并在清乾隆、光绪年间及民国初年进行了三次较大的内容修订。
The new type of comprehensive Life Encyclopaedia that appeared in the Ming Wanli years were close to the folks and life, and the enthusiastic publishing lasted for two to three hundred years and preserved the first-hand information on social life at that time. owadays, such books are scattered all over the world, and it is particularly inconvenient to search for them. Therefore, the academic circle lacks research results on the overall investigation of their origin and evolution, which causes some difficulties for researchers to use such literature.By systematically combing the editions of Life Encyclopaedia in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this paper investigates the different development characteristics and content changes of Life Encyclopaedia in different time periods, and reveals that after the late Ming Dynasty, Life Encyclopaedia gradually form a unified form from the initial diversified editions. In order to control the cost and increase the sales volume, the volume of such books is decreasing gradually.In terms of content, the Life Encyclopaedia use has been constantly changing its specific content according to the changes of times and needs, and in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, the content of the book was revised three times.
1. 引言
2. 明清日用类书的版本发展
3. 明清日用类书的内容变迁
4. 结语