In the Ming-Qing period, numerous literatures on intercourse and engagement for daily engagement guidance were carved mainly by folk workshops with rough craft and editions. Those books were usually discarded when used, so few of them got preserved. Now we can sort out at least three types from these literatures, including “tips on intercourse and engagement”, “selected collections of intercourse and engagement”, and “engagement among townsmen”, and the mother editions could be traced back to encyclopedias of daily life in early Qing and even the Yuan-Ming period. Neo-Confucians especially Wang Yangming advocated that engagement is just etiquette as well as investigation of things, laying a theoretical foundation for the ritualization of social interaction and the compilation of literatures on intercourse and engagement. As an etiquette manual, this kind of literature extended and refined rural etiquettes since the Song Dynasty, breaking the limitation that commoners having no intercourse. The ritual system recorded in these literatures are main resources for oral expression, written contact, and communication between God and man in folk ritual activities since the Ming-Qing period. Polite formula, epigram and couplet therein are convenient for people to imitate and practice, and promote the application of ritual texts in civil society. Masters of ceremonies and squires were disseminators and users of those literatures. The popularity of such literatures had promoted the popularization of traditional rites and formation of the “state of ceremonies”.