A Study On The Tusi In Yunnan Province During The Ming And Qing Dynasties

Chieftain System is the dominant mode of Chinese Ancient Central for a particular situation and the use of minority areas, as well as the central policy of the ruling dynasty embodied in these areas. Chieftain system originated in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty reached complete in the Qing Dynasty began to decline in a few decades and then gradually disappear. Chieftain System in China during the historical development, the development of political, economic, cultural and other aspects of the Minority Regions has played a big role, than before the "Jimi Policy" has been greatly developed. Yunnan Province in the Southwest region, many within the nation, for this type of many nationalities and different languages "special" area, central dynasty which ruled in the process, according to areas of national policy taken toast, how much adapted to the ethnic minority areas development needs. Implement chieftain system also boosted the development of ethnic minority areas, in support of the central dynasty policy, all aspects of toast region will slowly develop. But in the late Ming Dynasty, along with the economic development of ethnic minority areas, chieftain system more suited to the needs of historical development, followed by the Ming and Qing dynasties were gradually change the flow.Yunnan fu chieftain Ming and Qing Dynasties is a typical representative of the local culture and the Central Plains culture interaction, it is because the special nature of the Yunnan fu chieftin geographical location and administrative status, then creating a local chieftain and other border areas in the rule of toast policy differences historical role and degree of localization. After the Ming Dynasty Yunnan flat, House Minority Areas of Yunnan and Yunnan ethnic minorities border areas are also set up as chieftain system, which not only enriched the content of Yunnan Chieftain system, but also to adapt to the development of ethnic minority areas in Yunnan tain, but in the middle there are a lot of sexual difference. After the establishment of the Yunnan fu chieftain, region’s economic, cultural and other aspects of a great development, should be affirmed. On this basis, the organizational form of the Yunnan fu Chieftain, social activities and Chieftain also worth to explore. This article is of historical changes Yunnan fu chieftain system analysis and sort out, come chieftain system is to meet the needs in a given period of historical development, but chieftain system as a central policy of the ruling dynasty an ethnic minority areas, the presence of the late malpractice Yunnan fu Chieftain System with the development of ethnic minority areas and exposed, eventually Yunnan fu chieftain system in the tide of history is also slowly disappear in the course of history.