土司制度历史地位新论

A New Interpretation of the Historical Position of Chieftain System

土司制度在社会发展史上的地位与影响为人类文明的传承与发展提供了一个范本,具体表现在:区域社会管理的新模式、文化包容和管控的新实践、女性社会地位的提高、土司治理地区生态环境的保护,这是土司制度对人类文明承续和发展的重要意义。

Chieftains system has provided a model for inheriting and developing human civilization in terms of position and influences in the history of social development. It is mainly expressed in the new mode of regional social administration, new practice of cultural tolerance and control, the promotion of women's social status, and ecological protection in chieftain administered areas. This is the great significance of chieftain system to the inheritance and development of human civilization.