云南少数民族碑谱资料探析

Exploration of the Stone-carved Genealogy of Yunnan Ethnic Minorities

碑谱是云南少数民族谱牒的一种重要形式,这种镌刻在石质载体上的家谱具有墓祭和聚族的功能。明清以来,碑谱在云南的一些少数民族中有一定的传承,碑谱文字除以汉字为主外,也有少量少数民族文字的书写,还具有姓氏源流、父子连名制等鲜明的民族特色。云南少数民族碑谱承载着民族悠久的历史和文化,为云南少数民族的姓氏源流、宗族文化变迁、民族交往交融、西南边疆治理等的研究提供了史料,具有重要的研究价值。

The stone-carved genealogy is an important form of Yunnan ethnic minority genealogy.This kind of genealogy carved on the stones has the functions of tomb sacrifice and clan gathering.Since the Ming and Qing dynasties,it has been inherited among some ethnic minorities in Yunnan.Most of the stone-carved genealogies were written in Chinese characters,but a small number of them were written in ethnic minority characters with distinctive minority features such as the origin of surnames and the father-son consecutive name system.The stone-carved genealogies in Yunnan ethnic minorities are of important research value in that they carry a long history and culture,and provide historical materials for researches on the origin of surnames,clan cultural changes,ethnic blending,frontier governance etc.in southwest of Yunnan ethnic minorities.