Frontier Fences: The "Namafan" In The Ming Dynasty

The “Nama Tibetan tribes” was Tibetan who accepted the "ChafamaFu" from the government in the Ming Dynasty,and it belonged to the Hezhou,Xining,Taozhou,Minzhou and other "Xifan Zhu Wei" in the border river,Huang,Tao,Min areas of Shaanxi Province.The Namapan nationality was a tribe of the Fan nationality.The Ming Dynasty granted the tribal chieftain Wei Suo the rank of official and granted the title of monk head of the monastery,all of which were hereditarily inherited,and inherited the Ma Fu which was also remunerated with tea jin.It not only established the "imperial court style" in the frontier society of the Fan nationality,but also showed preferential treatment to the Fan tribe and made it play the role of "fence".The Ming Dynasty also granted the tribal chieftain Wei Suo the rank.However,the Namapan people in nomadic or semi-nomadic state are not fully included in the "edition" of the "household Qimin",Ma Fu Zheng Na is often subjected to the impact and interference of tea smuggling activities.After the middle of Ming Dynasty,the East Mongolia invaded the Northwest Fan Land,and the Namapan Nationality either fled or surrendered to Mongolia as its subordinate,which weakened its role as a frontier fence.In the middle of Ming Dynasty,especially in the Wanli period,the Ming court was presided over successively by Yang Yiqing and Zheng Luo,and carried out the activities of "recruiting and collecting foreign nationals" to reestablish the Namapan nationality and rebuild the frontier fence.