名称保安族的名称是由地名而来。据青海的《循化志》、甘肃的《河州志》和《甘宁青史略》中的记载,大约是明初,当时的封建王朝为了镇压少数民族,在今青海省同仁县境内设立了保安站、堡(操守所),以后建筑了保安城。到清朝雍正年间,清政府就在保安城设立了“陕西河州镇镇属保安营”。据《循化志》雍正七年(1729年)记载:“保安城土城一座, Name The name of the guardian is from the place name. According to Qinghai’s Xunhua, the records of Gansu’s Hezhouzhi and Gansu Ningqing are about the early Ming period when the feudal dynasty was set up in Tongren County, Qinghai Province to suppress the ethnic minorities Security station, Fort (Ethics), after the construction of the Security City. During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government set up a “Security Camp in Hezhou, Shaanxi Province” in Bao’an City. According to “Xunhua” Yongzheng seven years (1729) records: "Baoan City, a security city,