听说地处滇南的通海县有一支蒙古族后裔,是30年前我做学生的时候。很快就实地去看了,几个同学到那里一住十多天,从生活习俗到故事小调,挨家挨户刨了个遍。那次调查,留下几点够深的印象,感觉这是一个有意思的个案。后来又往来匆匆地去过几次,想探询的仍然还是当年那些有趣的话题:一个似乎只应该与“天苍苍,野茫茫,风吹草低见牛羊”连在一起的民族,数百年间,如何在远离本民族生存环境和文化背景的异地他乡坚持 Heard that there is a Mongolian descendants in Tonghai County in southern Yunnan, when I was a student 30 years ago. Soon to see the field, a few students to live there for more than a dozen days, from the customs of life to the story of the minor, from house to house planing times. That survey left a few deep impression and felt that this was an interesting case. Later came and rushed to several times, would like to inquire is still those interesting topics that year: one seems to be only with the “days of gray, wild vast expanse of wind and grass” In the past century, how to persist in the remote areas far away from the living environment and cultural background of the nation?