“滇”是我国西南边疆古代少数民族建立的原始王国,主要分布在今云南省中部及东部地区,以滇池水域为中心。据考古数据证实,滇国出现的时间至迟不晚于战国初期,盛于战国末至西汉初,西汉中期以后开始衰落,至东汉初被中原王朝的郡县制代替。当时的滇国古民族尚未使用文字,这使得古滇人原始但丰富的生活及其创造出的灿烂青铜文化被逐渐湮没在了时间的长河中。滇国的历史,在我国古代史研究中几为空白。我国古文 “Dian ” is the primitive kingdom established by the ancient ethnic minorities in the southwestern frontier of our country. It is mainly distributed in the central and eastern parts of Yunnan Province today, with the Dianchi Lake waters as the center. According to the archeological data, the Dian Kingdom appeared no later than the beginning of the Warring States Period and flourished at the end of the Warring States Period to the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. After the mid-Western Han Dynasty began to decline, it was replaced by the system of the Central Plains dynasty in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, the ancient ethnic group in Yunnan Province did not yet use words. This made the primitive but rich life of the ancient Dian people and the splendid bronze culture they created gradually obliterated in time. The history of Dian Kingdom is almost blank in the study of ancient Chinese history. Ancient Chinese