What is the origin of Chuxiong in Yunnan?

Chuxiong Prefecture is one of the cradles of human civilization with a long history and splendid culture. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, the Ramazan Australopithecus fossils from Lufeng, which lived 8 million years ago, were found in Lufeng, and the Yuanmou Bamboo shed Australopithecoidea, which lived 3 million years ago, was found in Yuanmou County. 1965, Yuanmou fossils were found in Yuanmou county 1.7 million years ago, and traces of stone tools and fire were found, which proved that Yuanmou man not only completed the evolution from apes to humans, but also mastered the skills of using fire. 1975, a panoramic view of Chuxiong in the world was unearthed in Wanjiaba, Chuxiong.

The earliest bronze drums proved that as early as 2500 years ago, Chuxiong ancestors created bronze culture characterized by bronze drums. In the pre-Qin period, Chuxiong had three major nationalities: Bianqiang, Baiyue and Baipu. By the mid-Western Han Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty had successively set up counties in the southwest, and the economic and cultural exchanges between various ethnic groups had been strengthened. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, after a long period of ethnic integration, counties and counties formed residential areas dominated by barbarians and white barbarians. The "Thirty-seven Nanzhao Departments" in Tang and Song Dynasties include Bailu Department (Chuxiong), Luobu (Roots), Wuluo Department (Wuding), Zhuhua Department (Yuanmou), Toklie Department (Mouding), Yizhou Department (Guangtong), Medog Department (Shuangbai) and other ethnic minority regimes with Yi ancestors as the main body. After a large number of immigrants settled in the early Ming Dynasty, the Han nationality gradually became the most populous nation in Chuxiong.