Abstract: the enlistment and deployment of Green Standards, the distribution and changes of xun and tang , as w ell as the Qing government s increasing control over frontiers, deter mined the inevitable connection between Green Standards and migration problem in the Qing Dynasty the soldiers of Green Standards and their dependents not only shaped three types of mig ration in Yunnan, resulting in 380, 000 mig rants entering Yunnan, but also played a very important and influential role in popular migration during the Qing Dynasty