十多年前謝正光發表〈清初所見「遺民錄」之編撰與流傳〉一文，曾經受到學術界較? 廣泛的關注，引發新一波有關清初明遺民的研究熱潮。但這一話題本身當時其實遠未得到全面、系統、深入的研探。本文追溯「遺民錄」編撰的歷史近源，詳盡考證清初「遺民錄」編撰的興盛狀況和突出個案，考問藉以傳播的遺民價值觀精義：朱子素等的《歷代遺民錄》，雖鮮明表現遺民角色和價值觀的理論自覺，但仍受明代程敏政《宋遺民錄》「天理民彝」觀的影響甚深；李長科等的《廣宋遺民錄》，提出「存宋者，遺民也」，「宋存則中國存，宋亡則中國亡」的重大命題，把遺民替一姓王朝的守節義舉變成對祖國的莊嚴責任和神聖使命；朱明德等的《廣宋遺民錄》，陳宏緒的《南宋遺民錄》，以及黃宗羲的有關遺民論述，意在「存人類於天下」，更將遺民人生意義提升到? 整個人類保存人類特有之屬性和尊嚴的價值極點；許楚等等則由對前代遺民的訪? 尋蹤，轉到對當代遺民同仁的深情眷注，把他們從南宋遺民那裏「發現」的種種神聖歷史責任統統擔到了自己的肩上。「遺民錄」編撰及遺民價值觀傳播，不僅昭示了清初明遺民用血和淚來書寫歷史冊頁、從事中華文化傳承和創造的心理動力，也成? 此後反清民族鬥爭和其他民族鬥爭的不滅薪火。

Although the compilation of and the spread of the biographies of the Ming loyalists written by Zhengguang xie more than ten years ago had been acquiring appreciation from other scholars, this topic had not been studied authentically from then. This paper traces the compilation of the biographies of loyalists back to its historical sources, checking the flourishing of the compilation of the biographies of loyalists in the Qing dynasty, demonstrating correlative examples, looking for essentials of value-ideology of the Ming loyalists. The compilation of the biographies of the Ming loyalists and the spread of value-ideology concerning loyalists, not only drove the Ming loyalists to inherit and to develop Chinese culture, to create history with their blood and tears, but also became factually the flame lightening the road to counteracting the Qing and other national enemies.