- 著者
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牧野 巽
- 出版者
- 日本文化人類学会
- 雑誌
- 民族學研究 (ISSN:00215023)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.14, no.2, pp.115-127, 1949
The paper is one of a series of studies by the author on the languages and peoples of the Nan-chao and Ta-li kingdoms of Yunnan Province, China. The first study, "The Surviving Peoples of the Nan-chao and Ta-li" (to be published in the Toyo Gakuho) deals with the process whereby the main survivor of the Ta-li, called Pe-jen, retained their own characteristics, as distinct from those of the Chinese, after their kingdom was annihilated by the Mongols, until, under the Ming dynasty, they were gradually assimilated to the Chinese people and were called the Min-chia (common people or natives). In the second study, "Legends of the Descent of the Min-Chia in Yunnan" (to be published in the present journal), the author deals with the legend of the descent of the ancestors of the Min-chia from Chinese migrants from Nanching. He assumes that the legend was first prevalent among the Chinese in Yunnan and then diffused among the Min-chia, who had lost their own independent characteristics. The present paper is the third of the series. The author takes up a fragment of the Yunnan-chih by Li-Ching during Yuan period, cited by Ku-jen-wu in his T'ien-hsia-chun-kuo-li-ping-shu (The Book of the Good and Evil in the Provinces and Districts of all the Land), vol. 69. After determining that this fragmental record referred to the Pe-jen, i.e., the surviving descendants of the Ta-li, he states that the vocabulary contained therein coincides with that of the present Min-chia. He further argues that the vocabulary of the Nan-chao, found in the Man-shu by Fan-ch'uo, also coincides in many points with that of the Min-chia of present day and of the Yuan period, and concludes that the languages of the Nan-chao, Ta-li and Min-chia belong to the same group. The author is further preparing two more papers, "Lineage of the Min-chia Language of Yunnan" (No. 4) and "Ethnic Structure of Ta-li Kingdom as it appears in the Yuan-shi, Ti-li-chih" (No. 5). In the former he assumes that the Min-chia language belongs in all likelihood to the Tibeto-Burman family (although it differs considerably from the Lolo group, and probably constitutes a separate Nanchao-Minchia group), and that therefore Nan-chao was not a Thai kingdom as is generally assumed. In the latter article, he would argue that not only the ancestors of Min-chia, but also those of other ethnic groups that constituted the Ta-li kingdom, were mostly Tibeto-Burman, and that the great bulk of the Thai people, who are generally considered to have been driven from Yunnan south and west by the Mongols, are unlikely to have lived in Ta-li even long before the Mongol invasion.