This kind of crude and backward system naturally cannot talk about centralization or any sense of identity.
And in the entire southwest region, this tribal nation's way of playing, tribal and ethnic recognition, is in full swing.
Therefore, although there are three major barbarian countries in the southwest, Nanzhao, Dali, and Da Changhe, the core tribes of these three countries each hold only half of a county's territory.
With this half-county territory, they radiate outwards, treating those large and small tribes as vassal states or dependent regions, forming their own governance system.
So the position of these three countries is probably similar to that of Lu Yuan's former Heavenly Son of the Zhou Dynasty. In name, it is the common master of the world, with various princes underneath, and these princes are the bosses of their own areas.