Abstract: An all-sided investigation is made of local administration establishments in the areas inhabited by Tujia people during the early period of Tang Dynasty. New findings have been achieved, eg. thousand-household administrative communities were set up in Guizhou. Some doubts which have long remained in history are thus cleared up.

Key words: Tujia Nationality；Tusi；local administration establishmentNote:&ldquo, Tusi”,system of appointing national minority hereditary headmen in the Yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties