"Kunming" as place names, very difficult to be ascertained at the Tang Dynasty ago. About "Kunming" was the origin, there is a variety that most scholars think, "Kunming" was originally an ancient southwest China said the nation's family. "Kunming" in ancient Chinese literature, writing, "Queensland", "Queensland indemnity" or "Kun Lin." Early is not a town name, but living in China's southwestern region that is today the western region of Yunnan, Sichuan, southwest of an ancient tribe called the nation.
Found records, "Kunming" was the emergence can be traced back to the Han Emperor Wu period. At that time, the famous historian Sima Qian in the "Records of the Historian Biography西南夷" wrote: "West from the same division (now the Baoshan) to the east, north to elm leaf called嶲, Kunming, are distributed, with the animal movement, not often, the not-jun long, can place thousands of miles. "Clearly," Kunming "is an ancient Yunnan's ethnic minorities, said.
"Kunming" as the names appear, it is at the Tang Dynasty. "Wude two years, in the town of Kunming County home, built in the south of Kunming, so the name." Click here to dispose of Kunming Prefecture, non-current of Kunming, is scheduled to large town in Sichuan (this Yanyuan County). Why put the Tang Dynasty set large town named "Kunming", records of those who have been written very clearly that it is close to the Kunming Department of the company. Here still refers to Kunming Kunming tribe, the cap before the Han and Tang Dynasties, Kunming, Yunnan tribe to settle most of the western region. Until Nanzhao, Dali States period, the Ukrainian man, white man rise, Kunming tribe living place for Wu Man, White Man, according to HAS, Kunming Yunnan东迁only tribe, live in around the Dianchi Lake. Song Woo-year (1254), metadata out of Dali, located at Shan illustrates
"Kunming by 1000", "Kunming" as the names appeared in the beginning, continues to this day.
"Kunming" the meaning of the word, Jin Ju Chang explained: "夷人big day Queensland species, small species of day old gentleman." This phrase could be interpreted as a large population of ethnic Kunming.
As some local history records: "Mrs Elisa Kunming North Kunlun mountain ... ... the name of Kunming in Yunnan get justice in addition to flood back, the Kunlun Mountains to the south there is from the (Lebanese) prescribed scene among the non-virtual Natori ... ... Kunming Yunnan logo no more than justice scenes of civilization ... the sun ... that phase can be pushed and Ming-sheng烛照everything, cover the remote Yunnan Province boundary edge and open up later to the provincial capital of Kunming, said that since, when comparable with the abdominal provinces, or its more bright, and can illuminate the advanced province. more on the characters words and Queensland for the day than by the word fusion, the same day compared to the intended date, the words of their civilization than the day to day progress; prescribed by combining the word for the sun, that sun combination of Italy, a statement of its future will be developed such as the sun or the Constant also, Kunming's check just so ... ... "This one said, is for reference only.