The origin of the Han nationality?

The Han nationality is not a nation that has existed since ancient times, but developed and formed in the long-term historical development and the mutual integration of various ethnic groups.

In the primitive society more than 5,000 years ago, the state had not yet appeared, and people were divided according to tribes. At that time, many tribes lived in the Yellow River valley of China. Later, these tribes were unified into a big tribe by a leader named Huangdi. This tribe began to take root in the Yellow River basin, and gradually developed animal husbandry and handicrafts based on agriculture. This tribe is the Chinese nation, the predecessor of the Han nationality.

After Qin Shihuang unified China, a huge Qin Empire was established. However, the rule of the Qin Empire was short-lived. After the death of Qin Shihuang, his son Hu Hai succeeded to the throne. Hu Hai's incompetence and fatuity soon ruined the inheritance of the Qin Empire. Qin was replaced by the Han Empire.

The Han empire learned the lesson of the demise of Qin and began to work hard to govern the country. During the Han dynasty, the rulers encouraged the people to develop agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts, and soon the people's living standards improved. At the same time, the Han empire also made efforts to strengthen relations with ethnic minorities.

Due to political clarity and social stability, the Han empire gradually became strong. At this time, the distant ethnic minorities had great respect for the prosperity, development and prosperity of the Han Dynasty, and the people of the Han Empire proudly called themselves Han people and Han people.

It was during this period that the Han nationality was gradually formed. The civilization achievements of the Han nationality are very high, such as the four great inventions, cultural concepts, porcelain, smelting technology, silk and so on. They are all advanced and have made great contributions to the progress of world civilization. Han people attach great importance to relations with ethnic minorities. They exchange needed goods and learn from each other. Together, they created the glorious history of China.

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Han ancestors

According to the legends recorded in the pre-Qin literature and the scope of the capital of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the ancestors of the Han nationality generally lived in the Central Plains. Yangshao culture and Longshan culture are two Neolithic cultures mainly distributed in this area, which are generally considered as the cultural remains of Han ancestors.

Ancient legends also describe that Han ancestors experienced a long era of primitive commune system. Before the Yellow Emperor, there was a matriarchal clan tribe stage of "Anemarrhena asphodeloides doesn't know his father". The legend of the Yellow Emperor marks the change from matriarchal clan tribe to paternal clan tribe and enters the stage of tribal alliance.

Legend has it that Yao, Shun and Yu, who successively served as leaders of the big tribal alliance after the Yellow Emperor, are all considered descendants of the Yellow Emperor. However, historical legends show that the ancient ancestors of the Han nationality actually included people from Qiang, Yi, Miao and Li tribes.

Therefore, Yu Shun came from Dongyi, under the account of Qiang and Rong. There are also some legendary figures, which can be interpreted as Yi Qiang, Jackson Yee and Miao Li according to different accounts. This contradictory phenomenon of historical legends reflects the historical process that clans and tribal groups from different sources gradually merged into the same clan and created the same ancestor.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Han nationality