摘要：Since it was suggested at the end of the 19th century that Thai people originally came from Southern China,“Dali and sukhothai”has become one of the most controversial topics of Southeast Asian *** paper aims at showing the existence of a transcultural phenomenon between the arts and cultures of Dali and *** order to exam in this,this paper confronts two propositions:early Tai people establishing the Nanzhao Kingdom in Dali,and the move to the South of the Tai *** paper focuses on three causes of the transcultural art of Dali and sukhothai:(1)South East Asia as a cultural entity,(2)the geo-civilisational influence,(3)the trans-border ethnic migrations.