元代是中国历史上第一个少数民族统治中原的朝代,相较之前以汉人为君主的王朝,这一时期的民族歧视更显突出。蒙古统治者一开始就设下森严的等级制度:一等自然是蒙古人;次等是援兵蒙古的外邦人,即所谓的色目人;汉人位居下等;再下一等是最后降元的长江以南的汉人,他们被视为下等人中的下等人。元朝还将人以身份高低贵贱排序为“官、吏、僧、道、医、工、匠、娼、儒、 The Yuan Dynasty was the first dynasty to rule the Central Plains in the history of China. Compared with the dynasty previously dominated by the Han, the ethnic discrimination in this period was even more prominent. The Mongol rulers, from the very beginning, set a strict hierarchy: the first nature was Mongolian; the second was the support of Gentiles in Mongolia, the so-called Sejuren; the Han were inferior; the next was the last reduction Han Chinese people to the south of the Yangtze River, they are regarded as inferior people. Yuan Dynasty will also rank high and low as ”officials, officials, monks, Taoism, medicine, engineering, craftsmen, prostitution, Confucianism,