藏族是一个很晚才形成的民族。藏人的祖先是秦汉时期开始向高原迁徙的羌族中的两支——发羌和唐旄。在进入高原后,与当地的土著发生了混血。藏族起源的神话传说中,土著被描绘成丑陋的猕猴,羌人则是仙女,两者婚配繁衍出了藏族。这些传说不仅在布达拉宫的壁画中有所体现,在《玛 Tibetans are a very late-forming nation. The ancestors of Tibetans are two of the Qiang ethnic groups that began to migrate to the plateau in the Qin and Han dynasties - the Fa-Qiang and the Tang Dynasty. After entering the plateau, a mixed race occurred with indigenous people. Among the myths and legends of the Tibetan origin, the aborigines were portrayed as ugly macaques, Qiangs as fairies, and the marriage and cooperation between the two were out of Tibet. These legends not only reflected in the Potala Palace murals, in "Mary