The content of the inscription on the monument of alliance between Duan and the thirty-seven tribes

According to various researches by scholars, the content of the inscription is roughly determined as follows:

In the third year of the Ming Dynasty, at the end of the year, he issued an edict to flatter and lead the army, to obey the benevolence, and to appease the frontier fortress. . Therefore, the three towns including Qizong, the mayor of the town of Gozhong, Dailianong, the leader of Qiuzhou, and Tu Fumo Nai were eliminated, and the town of Gozhong was unified. He returned to the army on February 8th and arrived at Shicheng on March 7th. He also defeated the bandits Lang Yuxi and Afang Tiandong, gathered thirty-seven female members Kao Jianuo, twelve generals Nonglue, etc., and executed them on April 9th. Luo Sha once, and also awarded job rewards. Therefore, we have made an oath to make a covenant, which will last forever. The superiors will be aware of the saints, and the subordinates will practice one virtue and take possession of their blood.

(Text of the stele above)

The commander-in-chief of the three armies, Huangshu Buxie, Duanzi Wang said,

The commander-in-chief of the three armies, the commander-in-chief Buxie Duanyan, Duan Yanzhen,

Bi Yan, Wei Yulan, Yang Lianyong and Yang Qiuyan,

The internal ministers praised Duan Zihui and Li Shan for a long time,

Governor Shuang Wang Qingzhi,

The internal ministers praised Wei Yang Dingcun,

Limo Yang Dingfu of Chao Dao,

Yuan Yongzhi and Su Shengxing of Chao Qi.

(The names of the above officials)

This alliance is not recorded in the historical records. It is important for studying the history of the ethnic minorities in Dali and Yunnan at that time and the official system of Dali. Physical information. This stele was recorded in the Ming Dynasty, but was later buried in the earth. It was unearthed during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and moved to the city for preservation in the 29th year of Daoguang (1849).

The inscriptions on this stele are "very difficult to understand" and "half mixed with Yi language, and mostly incomprehensible". According to "Yuan Shi Geography", the thirty-seven divisions mentioned in the article are mainly distributed in southern Yunnan, eastern Yunnan, Puding and Pu'an in Guizhou, and Yue, Xichang and Huili in Sichuan. The Thirty-seven tribes had a lot of relations with Dali, and they rebelled at times, and there are many records in history. "Oath" may be made more than once.

The "Mingzheng" mentioned at the beginning of the inscription is the reign name of Duan Sushun of Dali Kingdom. Wang Song's "Unofficial History of Nanzhao" contains: "Duan Sushun was established in the second year of Kaibao by Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and changed the government of Yuan Dynasty to Mingzheng." "The third year of Mingzheng" was the fourth year of Kaibao of Emperor Taizu of Song Dynasty (971 AD). It seems that this monument is more than 1,000 years old.