The physical features of Japanese, Koreans and Singaporeans are similar to those of Han Chinese. Do they have the same ethnic origin?

There is no conclusion yet on the ethnic origin of the Japanese. Most scholars believe that it was formed by the crossbreeding of people from different origins. The Japanese are currently the only mixed race. As early as the Late Paleolithic Age, when the Japanese archipelago was still connected to the Asian continent, primitive people lived here, and their descendants are today's Ainu people. About 10,000 years ago, the Japanese archipelago began to separate from the Asian continent, and many groups of immigrants immigrated from the sea, becoming the foundation of the Yamato nation. These mainly include the Tungus people from Siberia and Northeast China, the Malays from the Nanyang Islands, the Indo-China people from the Indochina Peninsula, the Wuyue people from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Han and Koreans who immigrated around BC. Due to the different immigration times and settlement locations of each group of immigrants, although a unified nation has been formed after thousands of years of mixing, there are still many local differences in traditional culture, lifestyle and physical characteristics. For thousands of years BC, the residents of the Japanese archipelago made a living by fishing, hunting, gathering or slash-and-burn agriculture, which historically belonged to the Jomon culture era. From the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD, metal tools, kiln-style pottery and rice cultivation techniques from mainland China were introduced to Kyushu, Japan via the Korean Peninsula. This was the era of the Yayoi culture. In the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, the Yamato Kingdom was established with present-day Nara as the center and unified the various tribes in Japan. From then on, it was called the Yamato nation. During the 7th and 8th centuries AD, Japan absorbed agriculture, crafts, architecture, Buddhism and other cultures from China's prosperous Tang Dynasty, as well as Korean and Indian culture, and its social economy developed rapidly. After the Meiji Restoration, it absorbed a large amount of European and American culture, forming a great fusion of Eastern and Western cultures.

Singapore 3,400,000 (2004) 76.8% are Han Chinese.

From about 5000 BC, the Huaxia ethnic group, the main body of the Han nationality today, originated in the Yellow River Basin and began to gradually develop, entering the Neolithic period, and successively experienced the matrilineal and patrilineal clan commune stages. 2700 BC In 1999, there was a tribe named Ji living in central Shaanxi. The leader was Huangdi. There was also a tribe named Jiang headed by Emperor Yan to the south. The two tribes often had frictions. The two tribes finally broke out in the Battle of Banquan, and Huangdi defeated Emperor Yan. , after which the two tribes formed an alliance and conquered the surrounding tribes, and the predecessor of the Huaxia tribe came into being.

According to legends recorded in pre-Qin documents, the ancestors of the Han nationality were within the scope of the Xia, Shang and Zhou capitals. , the ancient ancestors of the Han people generally lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River from Longshan in the west to Mount Tai in the east. The two types of Neolithic cultures, the Yangshao Culture and the Longshan Culture, which are mainly distributed in this area, are generally considered to be the ancient Han people. cultural relics of our ancestors.

Ancient legends also describe the long period of primitive commune system experienced by the Han ancestors. Before the Yellow Emperor, the matrilineal clan tribes (see matrilineal clan system) went through the stage of "knowing their mother but not knowing their father"; the legend about the Yellow Emperor marks the transformation from matrilineal clan tribes to patrilineal clan tribes (see patrilineal clan system), and has Enter the tribal alliance stage. Legend has it that after the Yellow Emperor, Yao, Shun and Yu, who successively abdicated and became the leaders of the large tribal alliance, were considered to be the descendants of the Yellow Emperor

In the 21st century BC, the primitive commune system in the Central Plains came to an end. , class society has appeared in the plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. From the 21st century BC onward, several dynasties emerged one after another: the Xia (approximately 21st century BC to 16th century BC), the Shang (approximately 16th century BC to 11th century BC), and the Western Zhou Dynasty (approximately 11th century BC to 771 BC). First, it is located between the Yellow River and its tributaries Wei, Fen, Yi and Luoxia to Heji and the upper reaches of the Huaihe River tributaries Ru and Ying; then it develops to the vast areas of the Huaihe River, Sishui River, Yangtze River and Hanshui River. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the clan names of Hua, Xia, or Huaxia together appeared to distinguish them from Man, Yi, Rong, and Di. However, at this time, the distinction between Huayi and Huayi was not very strict.

During the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC to 476 BC), the concept of the superiority and inferiority of Chinese and barbarians was already very strong. At that time, race and culture were both valued as the criterion for distinguishing Chinese and barbarians, with culture being the most important factor. Huayi people can often change places with each other due to factors such as etiquette, costumes and other factors. Qin and Chu are not only called "Zhuxia" together with Qi, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei, but they are also the two most powerful Chinese princes. The seven heroes combined vertically, horizontally, merged, and fought, but the clans were the same, forming a unified trend among the Xia. As a result, Huaxia became a stable clan, and its distribution area has reached the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe River in the northeast, the Taohe River Basin in the northwest, Bashu, and central Guizhou in the southwest. Southeast Hunan, Hunan, Wuyue and other vast areas.

Qin Shihuang unified China and established the Qin Dynasty. Later, the Han Dynasty was established and ruled China for more than 400 years. During this period, China’s territory expanded unprecedentedly. At this time, the Han population was still concentrated in the Yellow River and Huaihe River basins. From the Western Jin Dynasty Since the end of the last century, when the Five Husties disrupted China, the Han population gradually migrated to the Yangtze River, Pearl River and southeastern China on a large scale. During the period from the Western Jin Dynasty to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the Han people entered Central Asia and Yunnan. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Han population in the south had exceeded that in the north. Later, the Manchus prohibited Han people from leaving the country and entering the Northeast. In the late Qing Dynasty, in order to enrich the frontiers, the Han people were allowed to enter Northeast China. When Zhang Zuolin ruled the Northeast, a large number of Han people from Shandong were introduced. Since the Ming Dynasty, Han people began to immigrate to Southeast Asia sporadically, and from the 19th century onwards, Han people immigrated to Europe, North America and other places.

Korean people are typical northern Mongolians