Database of Chinese Popular Literature is a specialized large-scale database of ancient books. It collects 10,000 kinds of popular literary works and popular documents and materials of successive dynasties from the Qin-Han Dynasties to the early years of the Republic of China, including novel, script for story-telling, theatrical text, story song, storytelling in southern dialects, common saying story, rare books, and treasure volume. Each work is available as searchable full-text, digitized from a reliable version, and as images from the original scan. The database is fitted up with the characteristic retrieve system and the functional platform. The usually concealed materials of lower level society are fully presented now. 中國傳統社會底層流行之文獻, 指千百年來在民間廣泛流傳的俗文學作品與俗文字資料, 諸如小說, 話本, 戲文, 鼓詞, 俗講, 寶卷, 善書, 規約等. 它們作為俗文化的代表, 不但與雅文化共同構成中國傳統文化的兩翼, 而且蘊含著雅文化所缺乏的下層社會生活和基層民眾心理的豐富資訊, 是研究中國社會史, 生活史, 宗教史, 文學史的取之不盡, 用之不竭的寶貴資源. 本資料庫分為初集, 二集, 三集, 四集, 初集收錄小說和話本, 二集收錄戲文和鼓詞, 三集收錄俗講和寶卷, 四集收錄善書和規約, 合共1萬種. 每種皆據善本製成數碼化全文, 附以原版影像, 總計全文8億字, 影像500萬頁, 可從分類檢索, 條目檢索, 全文檢索, 高級檢索4條路徑進行快速大量檢索, 運用版本對照, 圈點眉批, 分類收集, 下載保存, 原文列印等10個輔助功能. 素稱汗漫隱秘之傳統社會底層流行文獻因此得以盡展貌相.