Call, Seal And Tribute

The shanxi province in the Ming dynasty was located in the northwest frontier,which had extensive jurisdictionand its location was very important.As a "flow" of shanxi,it is border area farming-pastoral and hua-yi clans,which has complex ethnic composition diversity,social organization form,production and living ways,ethnic and religious and cultural beliefs in its internal,and presents a diversification characteristic.From the point of geography,the Shanxi side-area of Chinese border area is mainly including the area of Hezhou?Taozhou?Minzhou and the area of Hexi.Because of its edge area,the border area of shanxi in Ming dynasty are the architecture function and the frontier bridge of the communication,especially during China's He-Huang-Tao-Min,more highlights the important strategic significance.Due to the particularity of shanxi side area,since the occupation of hehuang and hexi area,the Ming dynasty not only established the system of Wei-suo,pacified minority tribes to strengthen the management of the region's rule in politics,but also vigorously supported the upper,carried out special religious policy,the specific performance of the from top to bottom,sealing the tributary of activities and bottom-up activities.This paper focuses on dynasty respectively on Ming dynasty shaanxi lama sangha conscript border area,conferment and lama sangha tributary activities investigation and research from State and the flow of social relations,a detailed discussion on shaanxi rimland lama sangha as local social forces between the national and local society in dynasty play an important role.