How did the Han nationality come from? Since when is it called Han nationality?

The formation of contemporary Han nationality

. The Yuan Dynasty had sharp ethnic contradictions and did not have the conditions for ethnic integration. After the Yuan Dynasty was succeeded by the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, also pursued a policy of ethnic discrimination against the Mongols who stayed in China, and took revenge by killing them. Manchu is a jurchen descendant who stayed in the native land of Northeast China after the Jin regime entered the Central Plains. By the 20th century, Manchu was basically integrated with Han nationality. This is the second national integration in the history of China after Xianbei people merged into Han nationality. In the south, due to a large number of Han immigrants since the Qin and Han Dynasties, 90% of the Han people are between the Qinling Mountains, Huaihe River and the North-South Cultural Line, and the Han people here undoubtedly belong to the Northern Far East race, so the Han people have basically formed.

Han nationality is the main ethnic group in China. "Han" originally refers to Tianhe and the Milky Way, and the Book of Songs says: "There is Han". Chinese people are called "Han people", which began in the Han Dynasty.

But this title has never been mentioned in ancient history. Until modern times.

The word "Han nationality" first appeared, and there are two views:

There are 1, 1903.

According to Han Jingchun and Li Yifu of the Institute of Ethnic Studies of China Academy of Social Sciences, Huang Zunxian first used the word "Han nationality" and wrote it in 1903 "Refuting the Revolution": "Those who advocate nationality are unwilling to be ruled by Han nationality, Xianbei nationality and Mongolian nationality, and are not exempted from being ruled by Teutonic nationality, Slavic nationality and Latin nationality."

2. The last years of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Some scholars believe that the earliest record of the name of "Han nationality" was written by Li Shixian, a servant of the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in consular letters to various countries. In fact, there is a word "Han".

(All the above are photocopies)