A Study on the Personnel Exchanges between Tusi-governed Regions of Huguang and the Central Plains in the Ming and Qing Dynasties——From the Perspective of Ethnic Exchanges and Integration
In the Ming and Qing dynasties,there were extensive and frequent unofficial personnel exchanges between Tusi-governed regions of Huguang and the Central Plains.Together with the literati,scholar-bureaucrats,military officials,and other representatives of the Dynastic state,Tusi often maintained the relationship through literary exchange and correspondence,and they even intermarried with each other.The Tusi-governed regions also maintained close exchanges with the people of the Central Plains,such as accepting immigrants from the Central Plains,trading,and unofficial activities of pursuing Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.The reasons for these personnel exchanges are not only the Tusi's political demands and economic considerations,but also their admiration for the material and spiritual culture of the Central Plains.Through the personnel exchanges,the local people's sense of state identity is ultimately strengthened.These exchanges not only promoted the economic and cultural development of Tusi-governed regions,but also promoted the relations among various ethnic groups,which is a precious historical fragment of exchanges and integration among various ethnic groups in China.
Tusi in Huguangethnic exchanges and integrationa community for the Chinese nation
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