What is the difference between the Huaxia people and the Han people?

There is no difference between the Huaxia nationality and the Han nationality. They are the same names in different periods.

Huaxia is the earliest ethnic title recognized by all walks of life of the Chinese nation. Huaxia is also called "Xia" and "Zhuxia". Huaxia is also called Zhongxia. Hua and Xia used to be interchangeable, and "Zhongxia" was also called "Zhonghua".

The Han Dynasty mostly regarded itself as "Chinese". The Ming Dynasty regarded itself as both Han and Huaxia, and the two terms were synonymous. In short, Han and Huaxia as a whole are the most common ethnic names since the Han Dynasty to the present.

In ancient times, when the Han people immigrated overseas, they called themselves Chinese, hence the term "Chinese". The term "Chinese" originally referred to the Han people. However, as Chinese civilization expanded to all parts of the country, the concept of "Chinese" gradually expanded from referring only to the Han people to the ethnic minorities affected by Chinese civilization in China, and became a synonym for the entire Chinese nation. .

The Han nationality is the main ethnic group in China. They are the descendants of the tribes of Huangdi and Yandi in ancient times, and are descendants of Yan and Huang. "Han" originally refers to the Tianhe and the Milky Way in the universe. "The Book of Songs" says: "There is Han in the sky, and there is light in the prison." The Han nationality was formerly called Han people after the Han Dynasty in China. The Han Dynasty was previously called "Huaxia" or "Zhu". summer".

Extended information

The ethnic name of the Han nationality was established during the formation and development of China's unified multi-ethnic country. In 206 BC, the Han Dynasty succeeded the Qin Dynasty. It lasted for more than 400 years. The economy, culture and national unification had new developments. The residents of the Central Plains who were originally called Huaxia were called Han people. In the subsequent historical development, the Han people became the ethnic name of China's main ethnic group, accounting for the vast majority of China's population in the past dynasties, and playing a dominant role in all aspects of development.

The Han people have experienced integration, migration and integration with other ethnic groups, forming a concentrated distribution in agriculturally developed areas and cities such as the Songliao Plain and the Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River, Pearl River, etc., and in the border areas and local areas. Distribution characteristics of mixed ethnic groups. In addition, during the course of historical development, a considerable number of Han people immigrated overseas, forming local ethnic Chinese or overseas Chinese.

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