Historical Changes Of The Qinghai Arou Tribe Probe

Qinghai is one of the five Tibetan areas in China. Delimiting with Tibetan three dialects, it belongs to Amdo dialect.Since ancient times, the various ethnic groups in this piece of fertile land had cultivated crops and pastured, and created a unique and great civilization. Of course, the special natural and geographical environment of plateau determines the specific form of society, especially as the general organization of nomadic form of "tribal" in Tibetan areas in Qinghai has shown its great vitality and a high degree of adaptability. "Tribal" as the basic form of social organization in Tibetan areas of Qinghai, which extend for thousands of years, is based on the specific social organization, such as the Tibetan nomadic way of life, and the belief of Buddha and Bon. so "Tribal" life is one of necessary chapters in history. Tibetan areas in Qinghai have more than thousand tribes. Because of the social change and tribe division, differentiation and migration in the process, the resident tribes always changed themselves title. Therefore, it is quiet difficult to comparative study the name and residents between ancient and modern tribe.The A-rig tribe in this paper is just a branch of thousands nomads tribe in Tibetan areas in Qinghai, which members are known of bravery, and in which geographical location is known. A-rig tribe in history, is mainly engaged in animal husbandry, the production approach is a typical Tibetan nomadic door by the form of plants. In order to obtain more resources within a large range of plants, tribe is the most efficient production methods. Because of this specificity of production and the way of life, nomadic tribes are in a relatively unstable. Therefore, in different historical periods, group number, population, the resident often used to show volatility and the overall development of the tribe is also a tortuous and difficult process.Qinghai A-rig tribe is one of eight tribes from Kokonor Lake. It is composed of small different eleven tribes. Before the Yuan Dynasty, there was few records about A-rig tribe. Since the Yuan Dynasty, with the tribe's development and expansion of tribal forces and the local influence is gradually increasing, then about the A-rig tribe's information started to appear in the historical literature. Historically, A-rig tribe under the leadership of the successive leaders of excellence was once solid ground forces, affecting one of the larger tribes.Since the Qing Dynasty, due to the infiltration of outside forces and Mongolia and neighboring Tibetan tribes intrusion A-rig tribe experienced a hundred years the difficult migration process, the main tribes migrated to the north bank of the Qilian area, therefore A-rig tribe was lived there ever after. A-rig tribe in the development process to demonstrate four important features as follows:Firstly, the tribe had been through a lot turbulence, but always maintained the complete structure of tribal.Secondly, tribal always maintain and strengthen a good relationship with local governments in the past.Thirdly, many talent monks and tribal members have been fostered.Fourthly, tribe had a strong self-identify at the process of tribal development and change.In short, the development and changes of A-rig tribe is the process of integration of a nation, the process to enjoy multi-culture, and also is the process to maintain self-identity in the development process.