土司或称土官制度,是我国历史上的封建王朝在某些边疆少数民族地区利用民族首领统治本地区的一种政治制度,是我国封建政治制度的一个组成部分,已有上千年的历史。这一制度始于宋元,完备于明代,清代因袭沿用。土司土官制度曾广泛地实施于中南、西南及西北等少数民族地区,对于这些地区的社会政治、经济、军事、文化,以及这些民族地区同中央王朝的关系等方面,都产生过深远而重大的影响。这种影响有积极的一面,也有消极的一面。一般说来,其积极影响表现于初创期和完备期,消极因素主要表现于晚期,即没落期。土司制度渊源于怀柔政策,或称“羁縻制”,是历代封建王朝推行 Chieftain or local officials system is a political system by which the feudal dynasties in our history in the ethnic minority areas of some frontier regions dominated the region with national leaders. It is an integral part of our feudal political system and has a history of thousands of years. This system began in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, complete in the Ming Dynasty, followed by the Qing Dynasty. The Tusi-dwelling organ system was widely implemented in ethnic minority areas such as Central South, Southwest and Northwest China, and had far-reaching and significant consequences for the social, political, economic, military, and cultural areas in these areas and the relations between these ethnic areas and the Central Government. Impact. This kind of influence has both positive and negative aspects. In general, its positive impact is manifested in the initial period and the complete period, the negative factors mainly in the late, that is, the decline. Tusi system originated in Huairou policy, or “Jimo system” is the implementation of the feudal dynasties