What does Chinese mean? What does Chinese mean?

Lead: Nationality refers to the identity that an individual belongs to a certain country. Some friends often hear people say Chinese, overseas Chinese and Chinese, but many people don't know the meaning of these three. So, what I want to talk about today is, what does Chinese mean? What does Chinese mean? The following is the relevant content I have compiled, I hope it will help you!

What does Chinese mean?

China people are foreigners with China descent (generally speaking, only those who have at least China paternal descent are considered as China people, while those whose mothers are from China and their fathers are not China people are not considered as China people). China people do not have China nationality.

Most people in China can speak Chinese. In East Asia, Chinese (or China people) in countries influenced by China culture can generally speak Chinese (including Chinese dialects) and read Chinese. Outside Asia, except for the first generation of Chinese immigrants, most of the second and third generation Chinese (including mixed-race Chinese) rarely read Chinese, or can only speak spoken Chinese, or even don't know Chinese at all, and can only communicate in the local language.

The language life in China society is generally dominated by dialects, and Mandarin and local national languages are used together, gradually forming a multilingual situation. Among overseas Chinese, there are not many people who speak Mandarin as their mother tongue, and the Chinese community uses Minnan dialect, Cantonese and Hakka dialect more.

What's the difference between Chinese and overseas Chinese and China people?

1. Different nationalities: Overseas Chinese are China people with China nationality living abroad; China people, on the other hand, do not have the nationality of China people, but have acquired the nationality of their country of residence.

2. The laws to be observed are different: overseas Chinese are China people living abroad, and they are bound and governed by the laws of China. Whether they live in China or not, they must respect the laws of China; China people are not bound and governed by the laws of China, but only by the laws of the host country.

3. The time to acquire foreign nationality is different: overseas Chinese have no foreign nationality, but Chinese have lived abroad for a period of time and joined the nationality of the host country, so the time to acquire foreign nationality is after their birth.

Chinese descent

The term "China people" mainly refers to the Han nationality. Until the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the term "overseas Chinese" was used to refer to people of China origin living abroad. Three old China nationality laws, namely, the Qing Nationality Law (1909), the Amendment to the Nationality Law of the Northern Warlords Government (19 14) and the Nationality Law of the National Government (1929), all stipulate that overseas Chinese who "never return from generation to generation" will continue to be retained. Therefore, anyone with China descent and living abroad is regarded as an overseas Chinese.

According to the statistics before and after 20 15, overseas Chinese accounted for 7.7% of the total number of overseas Chinese, and Chinese accounted for 92.3%. That is to say, more than 90% of the absolute majority are Chinese, not overseas Chinese. Although the number of new overseas Chinese is increasing day by day, compared with Chinese, the number is still very small. This change has led to major changes in overseas Chinese society. With the gradual decrease of the first generation of immigrants who were born in China and can speak Chinese (including dialects) and hold China nationality, the population born in the country of residence, who can speak the language of the country of residence (as well as Chinese) and hold the nationality of the country of residence is increasing. The former is called "overseas Chinese", while the latter is called "China people" when it is different from it. More localized people are called "China people", while others call those who have the nationality of their country of residence "China people" and those who were born in their country of residence "China people".

This appellation of Tang people is especially commonly used in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, where Cantonese is used, and Fuzhou, where Fuzhou dialect is used, and its immigrants. Chinatown is a block where Tang people live in Cantonese and Min languages, and this title is widely used by overseas Chinese. Some countries, such as Japan, still called China Tang Dynasty until modern times. It is precisely because the Tang Dynasty is a powerful and representative dynasty in the history of China that it is actually related to the cultural opening and frequent foreign exchanges in the Tang Dynasty. This Tang appellation became popular after the middle of19th century. After the 20th century, although it is not as commonly used as China people and China people, it still exists in the place names of various countries, such as China Town. In addition, overseas Chinese are used to being called Tang.