Abstract:Road, with characteristics of materiality, space, sociality and connectivity, is is not only a tangible material culture of a physical entity, but also an intangible immaterial culture. Road , which can be regarded as one of the important cultural communication media, as well as means of the embedding of the state's power and material, is an important carrier of the transformation of Yi society in Liangshan. The connectivity of roads makes the connection between the Yi area and the outside world , and extesion to the political, economic and cultural context.The development of Liangshan Yi area has been integrated into the process of globalization and its own modernity has been constructed in this process.The anthropological perspective and framework of road research in Liangshan is drawn from three aspects: road construction and nation-state construction, road construction and national modernization, road construction and stable poverty alleviation and sustainable development.