Gansu Tibetan nationality ancients such as old Qiang people, Tuguhun, tibetan had lived and worked in Gansu Dongxiang county. Tibetan nationality is the important ingredient of Dongxiang nationality.

• 摘要甘肃东乡族生活的东乡地区历史上先后活动过古羌人、吐谷浑、吐蕃等甘肃藏族先民。藏族是东乡族族源的重要成分。