维吾尔族的族源及其发祥地问题研究

Ethnic Origins of the Uygurs and Their Birthplace

文章利用历史资料,考古成果、民族学、语言学、体质人类学的指示,尤其是维吾尔族古代的历史记载,论述维吾尔族的族源为十姓回纥(袁纥)和九姓乌古斯(护骨)。早在东晋十六国时期,这两大部族即游牧于蒙古高原的北部和中部。维吾尔族的发祥地也应当是蒙古高原,不是新疆的塔里木盆地。

Based on historic data, archaeological achievement, ethnological, linguistic as well as physical anthropological studies, especially ancient Uygur historical records, this article argues that the Uygurs were derived from the Shixing (10 clans) Huihe (Yuanhe or Uyghur) and Toquz-Oguz (Hu Gu). As early as the Eastern Jin and 16 Kingdoms period, these two big tribes led a nomadic life wandering around the north and middle of the Mongolian Plateau. So the birthplace of the Uygurs should be the Mongolian Plateau, not the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.