Many scholars consider that the eldest male children by tribal leader's wife have always been first in line to inherit the office according to Yi ethnic group's custom in northwest Guizhou province, however, this article argues that the primogeniture in r
Many scholars consider that the eldest male children by tribal leader's wife have always been first in line to inherit the office according to Yi ethnic group's custom in northwest Guizhou province, however, this article argues that the primogeniture in r
摘要既往的许多研究采用嫡长子爲大宗、其馀衆子爲小宗，层层分封的宗法制原则来解释贵州水西彝族的政治制度，本文梳理、考辨有关彝、汉文献，认爲水西彝族本来采用的是轮替继承的承袭制度，嫡长子继承是在明代中央王朝的干预下才逐渐形成的。