一、引言佤族是中国少数民族之一,现有人口39.66万人(2000年人口普查)。中国的佤族主要聚居在云南省西南部的沧源、西盟、澜沧、孟连、双江、耿马、永德、镇康等县的山区与半山区,即澜沧江和萨尔温江之间、怒山山脉南段的“阿佤山区”。部分散居在西双版纳傣族自治州和德宏傣族景颇族自治州境内,此外普洱、腾冲等县也有少数佤族分布。而境外的佤族主要分布在缅甸,泰国、老挝和柬埔寨等国也有佤族分布。缅甸的佤族居住在金三角缅甸掸邦东北部,与中 I. Introduction The Wa nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in China with an existing population of 396,600 (2000 census). The Wa nationality in China mainly live in the mountainous and semi-mountainous areas of Cangyuan, Ximeng, Lancang, Menglian, Shuangjiang, Gengma, Yongde and Zhenkang counties in southwestern Yunnan Province, that is, between the Lancang and Salween Rivers , Southern section of the Nu Shan Mountains “Awa mountain ”. Some scattered in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, in addition Pu’er, Tengchong counties also have a minority of Wa ethnic distribution. The outside Wa mainly distributed in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia and other Wa ethnic distribution. Myanmar’s Wa people live in the northeast of Myanmar’s Shan State in the Golden Triangle