秦汉时期 ,彝族先民被称为“昆明”、“叟”和“A”等。《华阳志·南中志》说 :“夷人大种曰‘昆’ ,小种曰‘叟’”。昆明当时主要分布在东起滇池一带 ,西至澜沧江流域的广泛地区。“昆明”是西南夷中势力强盛人数众多的族体 ,因而被称为“大种” ,乃是包括今彝语支诸民族的共 During the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancestors of the Yi people were called “Kunming”, “Xi” and “A”. “Huayang Zhi Nanzhongzhi” said: “The big variety is called” Kun “, the small species is called” 叟 “. At that time, Kunming was mainly distributed in the Dianchi Lake area in the east and the extensive area in the Lancang River basin in the west. ”Kunming“ is a group of people with a large number of powerful and prosperous people in the southwest baroque, and is therefore known as the ”great species," but a total of all ethnic groups including this Yi language