A Study On The Migration And The Ethno-National Relation Of Tai-Dai Ethnic Groups In The Tri-border Of China,Myanmar And Iindia

The Tai-Dai ethnic group is one of the important ethnic groups in the Tri-Border of China,Myanmar and India.It has experienced a long history of evolution,gradually exchanged and merged with surrounding ethnic group in the long history.Subsequently,it also gradually differentiated and evolved,and formed a cross-border ethnic group,which is the most widely distributed in this area.The Tai-dai once established a powerful tribal alliance or independent kingdom,which had an important impact on the history of this district.Afterwards,due to the competition and management of China,Myanmar and India dynasties,the original integrated ethnic groups gradually developed towards the direction of “Chinesization”,“Myanmarization” and “Indianization”,and formed the cross-border ethnic groups of the same origin and different currents in today's sense.Since modern times,along with the colonial invasion and domination of the Western Powers in northeastern India,Myanmar and China,the Tai-Dai ethnic group has undergone drastic changes in its economic structure,political system,ethnic relations and social culture.Its inter-ethnic relation have shown the characteristics of differentiation,acculturation and convergence.This paper attempts to take the Tai-Dai ethnic group in this area into a long-term and small-scale regional space to study the historical process of migration,differentiation and evolution of the Tai-Dai group in the Tri-Border of China,Myanmar and India.This thesis mainly focuses on three aspects:Firstly,on the basis of the local literature,folklore and historical records of the Dai-Shan ethnic group,this part focuses on the migration and inter-ethnic relation of the Dai and Shan ethnic group in the Tri-border of China and Burma between the 6th and 18 th centuries A.D.And mainly expounds the rise and fall of the state and local power of China and Burma dynasties in the Dai-Shan ethnic group settlement area in ancient history.The Dai-Shan ethnic group,which belonged to the same local forces or the central dynasties,gradually differentiated into a cross-border ethnic group under the control of the central dynasties in China and Myanmar.Secondly,tarting from the multiaspect of long period and small scale region space,this thesis mainly expounds the historical process of the ahoms who moved westward from Dehong area of Yunnan Province to Brahmaputra Valley in northeast India in the 13 th century and established the Ahom Kingdom.Through combing and analyzing the relevant historical facts and materials,it gives a brief account of the historical change about the ahoms' alienation and differentiation from the Dai-Shan ethnic group in the Tri-border of China and Myanmar after a long period of communication and interaction with surrounding ethnic groups.Thirdly,this article elaborate the influence of the national conscious awakening of the Tai-Dai ethnic group on the ethnic cohesion driven by the modern frontier crisis and national crisis.Simultaneously,the article also aim at discussing the formation of national state boundary in modern sense and the strong influx of foreign ethnic groups into the corner area of Yunnan,Tibet,Myanmar and India has led to the gradual differentiation and assimilation of the Tai-Dai ethnic group,and eventually forms the evolution of cross-border ethnic derivatives across China,Myanmar and India.On this basis,the overall characteristics of the interaction between the Tai-Dai ethnic group in the Tri-border of China,Myanmar and India are sorted out and summarized.Afterwards,to analyze the impetus and hindrance of the common cultural genes accumulated in the long-term communication and interaction to the construction of the “cordial and reciprocal”relationship between China,Myanmar and India.