The Appointment of Officials by the Central Government and Its Influence on Zhuang Society

改土归流之后,壮族核心居住区逐渐朝着多民族聚居的特点发展;壮族地区的政治、经济、文化开始与中原地区划一;壮、汉民族之间既有融合,也有同化,但是壮融入汉是主流;大约从明代起,壮族逐渐对壮、汉文化抱等距认同的态度,并在族际交流中维持自己的族群边界。改土归流的结果是使壮族看起来与汉族无异,但却实在又是一个特点突出的民族。After the officials began to be appointed by the central government , the Zhuang-inhabited area has gradually taken on the characteristic of being shared by various ethnic groups , and it s politics , economy and culture become one with that of the Central Plains. While the two ethnic groups are infiltrating and assimilating each other , the mainstream is the conformity of Zhuang into Han. Eve r since the Ming Dynasty , the Zhuang people has taken an impartial attitude toward the Zhuang and Han cultures , and maintained its own ethnic boundary in inter-ethnic communication. T he outcome of the conformity of Zhuang into Han is the physical similarity between the two ethnic groups ,whereas the Zhuang is still a group with its own prominent features