Abstract: For a long time,there has always been controversy about the ethnic origin ofPeng Family in Xiangxi.Currently,there exist two counter views in the academic circles.One is that the Peng Family in Xiangxi,many of whom were the minority hereditary headmen,came from Jiangxi Province (Hereinafter referred to as “the Jiangxi View”);another is that they were not the Hans from Jiangxi but the natives (Hereinafter referred to as “the Native View”).The author consulted a large amount of historical data,local chronicles,Pengs’ genealogy,and especially Record of the Xizhou Copper Pillar written by Li Honggao,an official and scholar of Chu in the later Jin Dynasty (Hereinafter referred to as “Record of the Copper Pillar”) and the introduction of the official title of Peng Shichou behind “Record of the Copper Pillar”,finding that the two should support both “the Native View” and “the Jiangxi View” respectively.Based on this,the author thinks that we can not arbitrarily deny any kind of point of view.The conclusion as to the ethnic origin of Peng Family in Xiangxi can not be simply made in favor of either “the Native View” or “the Jiangxi View”.There may be a deeper historical mystery in it.

Key words: Xizhou copper pillar；inscriptions；the Peng Family in Xiangxi, information of ethnic origin