古代哀牢国的疆域范围和民族构成再探

Further Study on the Border and Constitute of Ancient Ailao Country

古代哀牢国存在明显的狭义、广义之分,狭义哀牢国指哀牢本部及其有效控制下的几个小邦,即公元51年归附东汉的近一万八千人及其分布地域;而广义哀牢国则包含了哀牢本部和名义上隶属于哀牢部的众多小邦,即公元69年随哀牢王一起归附的七十七个小王、五十五万多人口及其分布地域。广义哀牢国的范围非常辽阔,包含了今滇西南大部分和今缅甸大部分,应已延伸到印度洋沿岸地带。广义哀牢国境内有多种民族,包含了孟—高棉语族、壮侗语族和藏缅语族的先民。

There are two distinct definitions of Ancient Ailao Country, narrow sense and broad sense. The previous one means the headquarter of Ailao Country and several little counties, namely, the region where its 18, 000 people submired to the authority of Dung Han in 51 AD; while the broad sense refers to the headquarter of Ailao Country and many other little counties, where their 77 kings and 55, 00 submitted to the authority of Ailao Coutry. In this case, Ailao Country in broad sense is very large, including the majority of Southwest Yunnan and Burma, and the seacoast of Indian ocean. In addition, there are many nationalities in Ailao country, including Meng-Cambodia Nationality, Zhuang-Dong Nationality and Zang Burma Nationality.