What do people call people in China?

Chinese is the abbreviation of "China people". In ancient times, it refers to the Han nationality. In modern times, it refers to people of China descent who have joined or acquired foreign nationality. "Hua" is the ancient name of China. In ancient China, China people living in other places were called "overseas Chinese" and "overseas Chinese", and the appellation of foreign "China people" evolved from "overseas Chinese".

China people have a long history of emigration. Before the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was no fixed title for China people who emigrated abroad. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the development and exchange of economy and culture, the expansion of foreign trade and the development of transportation, the number of people who emigrated abroad increased sharply, and they were often called "Tang people" by the people in the countries where they lived. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some of them were also called "China people" and "China people".

2. descendants of the Chinese people

The descendants of the Chinese people call themselves China people. "Yan" refers to Emperor Yan, the same as Jiang Shuicheng (now Baoji City). "Yellow" refers to the Yellow Emperor, which is made of Jishui (now Wugong Qishui River in Shaanxi Province). Emperor Yanhuang is the ancestor of China. Legend has it that they came from the same tribe and later became the leaders of two rival tribes.

Two tribes started the battle of Hanquan, and the Yellow Emperor defeated Yan Di. The two tribes gradually merged into Huaxia, which was called Han after Han and Tang after Tang. Yan Di and the Yellow Emperor are also the ancestors of China's culture and technology. It is said that they and their courtiers and descendants created almost all the important inventions in ancient times.

3. Children in China

In order to compete for the leader of the tribal alliance, the Yellow Emperor and Yan Di broke out in the Central Plains. Yan Di was defeated and merged into the Yellow Emperor, and China gradually took shape. Huaxia Group is dominated by Yan Di and Huangdi. These two ethnic groups originally lived in Henan, and they constantly expanded their power.

The battle of Zhuolu defeated Chiyou, the leader of Jiuli nationality of Dongyi Group, and its influence extended to Shandong today. From 265438 BC+000 BC to 770 BC, the descendants of the Yellow Emperor in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River successively established the Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty. After the national integration of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Chinese nation was formally formed.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Han nationality is a people who wear colorful clothes and pay attention to etiquette.

China people are mostly descendants of the above, so they call themselves sons and daughters of China.

4. Descendants of dragons

The descendants of the dragon are claimed by China people. The formation of dragons recorded the aggregation process of ancient national development and played a role in maintaining and centripetal. Dragon culture has become an important part of oriental culture and has made great contributions to human civilization, and China people are often proud of it.

5. Tang people

Due to the great influence of the Tang Dynasty on overseas, by the Song Dynasty, "Tang" had already become a synonym for China in southeast overseas countries. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, foreign countries called China or something related to China "Tang". Not only "Tang" is regarded as the land of "China", but China people are also called "Tang people".

Because there are a large number of overseas immigrants in Cantonese, this title of Tang people is especially commonly used in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and their immigrants who use Cantonese. Cantonese is nicknamed Tang dialect overseas; Chinatown, a Cantonese-speaking neighborhood in the Tang Dynasty, is now widely used by overseas Chinese. Some countries, such as Japan, still called China Tang Dynasty until modern times.

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