先秦至唐宋时期武陵地区民族关系简论

Brief Discussion on National Relations of Wuling Area from Pre-Qin to Tang and Song Dynasties

早在先秦时期,巴人和三苗的一支即已在武陵地区生存繁衍,发展成为现今武陵地区的两大主体民族:土家族和苗族。自汉代起,汉人就以相当的规模进入本地区。持续的人口流动奠定了现今武陵地区以土家族、苗族、汉族为主体,各民族大杂居、小聚居的分布格局。在长期的历史进程中,各民族间形成了共生共存、博弈互惠的密切关系。

As early as pre-Qin dynasty, a branch of Ba people and San-miao people had lived and multiplied in the Wuling area, and developed into the Tujia and the Miao two main nationalities in the Wuling area nowadays. Han people have entered into this area with quite scope from Han dynasty. Continuous movement of population settled the distribution pattern that the Tujia, the miao and the Han are main nationalities and all nationalities are in the state of big dispersion, small communities in the Wuling Area these days. In the long history progress, these nationalities have formed intimate connection of intergrowth, coexisting, gaming and reciprocal.