畲族是散布在我国东南山区的少数民族,据1990年统计,约有六十三万人,主要分布在福建省宁德地区、浙江省丽水、温州、金华三个地区,江西、广东、安徽三省也有分布。畲族历史悠久,公元七世纪初,畲族人民就已经劳动、生息、繁衍于闽、粤、赣三省交界的地区,被泛称为“蛮”、“蛮僚”、“峒蛮”、“峒僚”。南宋末年,史书中正式出现 According to the 1990 statistics, there are about 630,000 ethnic people, mainly in Ningde, Fujian Province, Lishui, Wenzhou and Jinhua in Zhejiang Province. There are also three provinces in Jiangxi, Guangdong and Anhui provinces distributed. The She ethnic group has a long history. At the beginning of the seventh century, the She people had already worked, lived and multiplied in areas bordering Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces and were commonly called “barbarous”, “barbarous”, “barbarous” and “bureaucratic” . Southern Song Dynasty, the official history book appeared