Study on Ethnic Distribution in Sichuan during the Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty (960-1279) is an important historical period for the development of ethnic minorities in the Sichuan region .During the Song , the main ethnic minorities in Sichuan included the Tubo , Qiang, Liao, Man, and Southwestern Yi .The Tubo mainly lived in the re-gion of present day Ganzi and Aba; the Qiang lived in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River , especially in Weizhou and Mouzhou , i. e. in present day Lixian, Maoxian, Wenchuan, Song-fan, Heishui of Aba Prefecture , and Beichuan of Mianyang .The Liao mainly lived in various areas of Bashu . They lived in a region extending from the hills in central Sichuan to the edge of the Si-chuan basin , and were especially concentrated in Nanpingjun of southeastern Sichuan ( which in-cludes the present day counties of Qijiang and Nanchuan of Chongqing , and Tongzi county of Guizhou ) .The Man lived in the region of south-ern Sichuan and southwestern Sichuan between the period of the Dali Kingdom and the Song dynasty . The Southwestern Yi , an important origin of the Tujia ethnic group , mainly lived in the frontier ar-ea starting from Qianzhou , Peizhou , and Kuizhou of southeastern Sichuan to Guizhou , i.e.pres-ent day southeastern Chongqing .