西南民族研究中值得进一步研究的几个问题

西南民族史所涉及民族众多、民族关系错综复杂、历史变迁缤纷多样，因此西南民族史研究中难点颇多，对其进行深入研究的历史与现实价值也很大。全文仅选择秦汉“西南夷”藏缅语族诸民族的族源、滇国与夜郎国民族关系、南诏政权后期对唐用兵原因诸问题进行探讨，以达到抛砖引玉的目的。

Several Issues in History of the Southwestern National Minorities: a Further Study

The history of the southwestern national minorities involves so numerous ethnic groups,with their interwoven relations and different vicissitudes in history,that it poses quite a few hard points in our studies;therefore,a deep probe into these points is historically and realistically significant.The paper is confined to studying: the ethnic origins of the peoples of "Xinan Yi" as called in the Qin and Han dynasties and grouped under the Tibetan-Burmese language branch;the national relationship between the kingdom of Dian and the kingdom of Yelang;the reasons why Nanzhao regime during its later years should have resorted to arms against the Tang.