今天,“土司研究”专栏的开设已进入第三个年头,两年来,它在推动土司研究上起了重要作用,在土司学界产生了积极的影响,得到了专家学者的充分肯定与支持。我们希望在新的一年里,“土司研究”专栏办得更加出色,为土司研究的快速发展做出应有的贡献,本期刊登的两篇文章,均探讨土司的祖源问题。我们知道,元明清中央政府任命土司,是以当地少数民族的首领为世袭地方官,即《元史》所谓“土人为之”者。但是,许多地方 Today, the “Toast Research” column has been in its third year of operation. For two years, it has played an important role in promoting the study of toasters. It has had a positive impact on toasters and received full recognition and support from experts and scholars. . We hope that in the new year, the column “T’u-ssu research” will do even better and make due contributions to the rapid development of toad research. The two articles published in this issue all discuss the chief source of Tusi. We know that the Central Government of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties appointed toast chiefs as hereditary local officials based on the heads of local ethnic minorities, that is, the so-called “natives of the Yuan Dynasty”. However, many places