White white-historical record

"People's Book" records: "West, white people are also. Dongpu is also a barbarian. " The so-called "Cuan" here refers to the most popular name of local rulers, namely the cuan clan family. Before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the cuan clan family was the most popular among the Han immigrants who settled in the frontier, and it was a powerful force different from the Han bureaucrats and immigrants. According to Tongdian, "Guan was born in Anyi (now northwest of Xia County, Shanxi Province) on the east side of Yunben River, and his seven ancestors worked in Jin (Wei).

The secretariat of Nanning belongs to the chaos of the Central Plains, hence the name barbarian king ". After cuan clan moved to the southwest Yi area, he replaced the status of "King of Yunnan" with the local Yi Shuai Lv Yong and Meng Huo. During the Jin Dynasty, cuan clan overwhelmed other forces and monopolized one side. Become the master of "barbarians" in South China. The fourth volume of Schumann said: "In Shicheng (now Qujing, Yunnan Province), Kunchuan (now Kunming, Yunnan Province), Qufu (now Malong County, Yunnan Province), Jinning, Yuxian (now Chengjiang and Jiangchuan, Yunnan Province) and Anning to Long he cheng (now Lufeng County, Yunnan Province), it is called Xiyou. Guan Yu said, "There are many flat dams here, which are suitable for farming. It was the center of Bo people's life in Qin and Han dynasties, and also the center of the integration, activities and development of Han immigrants and Bo people. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, these Han immigrants gradually lost contact with the Han people in the mainland. And blend in with local bloggers. Therefore, this area naturally formed a settlement dominated by the "White Man" in cuan clan, that is, the White Man in the West.

It was formed by absorbing Han culture and population on the basis of the original economic and cultural development level of Gelao nationality.

"White, there is a surname. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened a road to southwest Yi, and today Xuzhou (Yibin, Sichuan) is the county. Therefore, Zhongqing (central Yunnan), Wei Chu (Chuxiong, Yunnan), Dali and Yongchang (Baoshan, Yunnan) are all Gelao people, and now they are all white. (1) This part of Bo people refers to the "people in white" represented by surnames such as Yang, Zhao, Li and Dong around Erhai Lake. They belong to the same ethnic group as Xicong Baiman.

After Nanzhao annexed the eastern region, it moved the nobles, their sects and pro-soldiers of the "white people" in eastern cuan clan to Erhai area in western Yunnan to prevent them from rebelling in their original places. In the process of continuous development, western Yunnan ③ The History of the Later Han Dynasty (86), p. 2856.