What is the origin of Han people's names?

The origin of the name of the Han nationality was named after the Han Dynasty with "Han" as the national title, because its founding emperor Liu Bang was once named Hanwang. In this civilized, prosperous and populous land, the idea of reunifying the country has gradually taken root in people's hearts and eventually became the mainstream of China's historical development. ?

The original meaning of "Han" is the name of water, which refers to overflowing water. According to records, there were two famous people who overflowed water in the Qin and Han Dynasties: one was that "the water overflowed from Longxi, and Soochow was Han" (the overflow chapter in Shuo Wen Shui Bu), also known as the water of the Western Han Dynasty, flowed into Jialing River and merged into the Yangtze River; Second, "Fan Zhong guided Yang Dong to the Han Dynasty" (Shang Shu, Fan Zhongshan was in ningqiang county, Shaanxi Province today), also known as the water of the Eastern Han Dynasty, also known as Mianshui, which is now the Han River, also flowed into the Yangtze River.

Just because the Han nationality is called "Han" does not mean that the cultural center of the Han nationality is in the ancient Han Dynasty or the Hanshui River Basin. It is true that Bashu culture and Chu culture are two extremely important ancient cultures that constitute Chinese culture, but the cultural center of the Han nationality has long been in the Guanzhong Plain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Plain. Taking this as the main source, it integrated the local cultures of the Yangtze River basin, the Pearl River basin and the southeast coast, and formed a unified Chinese culture in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

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Population:

The population of Han nationality is about1300 million, accounting for 19% of the world's total population. It is also the most populous nation in the world, distributed all over the world. Han nationality is the main ethnic group in several modern countries or regions. It accounts for 92% of the population in mainland China, 74% in Singapore, 24.5% in Malaysia and 98% in China and Taiwan.

Many Han groups can be divided from the genetic, linguistic, cultural and social diversity within the Han nationality. According to the records of genetic research and historical migration of Fudan University, the main reason for the expansion of the Han nationality is the population movement from north to south in history: before the Jin Dynasty, the Han nationality mainly distributed in the north of China, and moved south on a large scale after the Yongjia Rebellion, while the Han nationality who moved south mixed with the aborigines in southern China, including the Dai nationality, South Asian language family and Miao and Yao language family, and their genes and languages were different from those of the Han nationality. This large-scale migration from north to south in history has also changed the population distribution density between north and south.

Quantity:

If the population of Han nationality starts from Xia nationality, it is about 2 million. After Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the peak period of the Warring States Period reached about 20 million. When the Han Dynasty was formed, the population of the Han nationality had reached more than 50 million, between 80 million and 90 million in the early Tang Dynasty and over1044100 million in the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the Yuan Dynasty, under the general trend of China's reunification, the snowball of the Han population grew bigger and bigger. In the twenty-eight years of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (160 1), the population reached1.50 billion. ? [38] In the thirty years of Qing Daoguang (185 1), it has reached more than 400 million. When People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, the population was about 600 million. By the end of the 20th century, the population had exceeded 1 100 million. Geographically, it develops from the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins to the south to the Pearl River basin to Taiwan Province Island and Hainan Island, to the northeast to the Heilongjiang River basin, to the northwest to the north and south of Tianshan Mountain, and to the southwest to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

References:

China Net-The Origin of Han People's Names