Han Chinese Person
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A Han Chinese Person is a Chinese person who traces back to The Han Chinese (an Asian people native to the Yellow River Basin) of 3,000 years ago.
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- They can range from being a Northern Han to being a Southern Han.
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- See: Han Dynasty, Chinese Language, Chinese Written Language.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese Retrieved:2020-10-6.
- The Han Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group and nation, historically native to the Yellow River Basin region of modern China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population and consisting of various subgroups speaking distinctive varieties of Chinese languages. ... The estimated 1.4 billion Han Chinese people world-wide are mostly concentrated in mainland China, where they make up about 92% of the total population.[2] In Taiwan, they make up about 97% of the population.[58][59] People of Han Chinese descent also make up around 75% of the total population of Singapore.[60] ... The Han Chinese trace a common ancestry to the Huaxia, a name for the initial confederation of agricultural tribes living along the Yellow River. The term Huaxia represents the collective Neolithic confederation of agricultural tribes Hua and Xia who settled along the Central Plains around the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in Northern China. The tribes were the ancestors of the modern Han Chinese people that gave birth to Chinese civilization. In addition, the term Huaxia (literally "the civilized Xia people") was distinctively used to represent a 'civilized' ethnic group in contrast to what was perceived as 'barbaric' foreigners around them. In many overseas Chinese communities, the term Hua Ren, Hua Qiao or Hua Zu, may be used for people of Han Chinese ethnicity as distinct from Zhongguo Ren which also refers to citizens of China, including people of non-Han ethnicity. Han people () may also be used for people of ethnic Chinese descent around the world. The Han Chinese are bound together with a shared history inhabiting an ancient ancestral territory for over four thousand years, deeply rooted with many different cultural traditions and customs. The Huaxia tribes in northern China experienced a continuous expansion into Southern China over the past two millennia. Huaxia culture spread southward from its heartland in the Yellow River Basin, absorbing various non-Chinese ethnic groups that became sinicised over the centuries at various points in China's history. The Han dynasty is considered to be one of the first great eras in Chinese history, as it made China the major regional power in East Asia and projected much of its influence on its neighbours, comparable to the contemporary Roman Empire in population size, geographical and cultural reach. The Han dynasty's prestige and prominence influenced many of the ancient Huaxia to begin identifying themselves as "The People of Han". To this day, the Han Chinese have since taken their ethnic name from this dynasty and the Chinese script is referred to as “Han characters".
2016
- (Liu et al., 2016) ⇒ Chixiang Liu, Piao Lv, Yinze Zhang, Xiaojuan Li, Jinqing Shang, Shuoxian Zhao, Hui Li, and Huayou Zhou. (2016). “Intron 4 of the RH Gene in Han Chinese, Tibetan, and Mongol Populations.” Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers 20, no. 1
- QUOTE: ... The RHCE gene intron 4 of Han Chinese, Tibetans, and Mongols differs from the RHD gene intron 4 in the presence of a 652-bp fragment. The RHCE gene intron 4 in Chinese has its own structural characteristics and differs among various ethnicities and regions. …
2015
- (Zhao et al., 2015) ⇒ Yong-Bin Zhao, Ye Zhang, Quan-Chao Zhang, Hong-Jie Li, Ying-Qiu Cui, Zhi Xu, Li Jin, Hui Zhou, and Hong Zhu. (2015). “Ancient DNA Reveals That the Genetic Structure of the Northern Han Chinese Was Shaped Prior to 3,000 Years Ago.” PLoS One, 10(5).
- ABSTRACT: ... The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in the world, and their origins, development, and expansion are complex. Many genetic studies have shown that Han Chinese can be divided into two distinct groups: northern Han Chinese and southern Han Chinese. The genetic history of the southern Han Chinese has been well studied. However, the genetic history of the northern Han Chinese is still obscure. In order to gain insight into the genetic history of the northern Han Chinese, 89 human remains were sampled from the Hengbei site which is located in the Central Plain and dates back to a key transitional period during the rise of the Han Chinese (approximately 3,000 years ago). We used 64 authentic mtDNA data obtained in this study, 27 Y chromosome SNP data profiles from previously studied Hengbei samples, and genetic datasets of the current Chinese populations and two ancient northern Chinese populations to analyze the relationship between the ancient people of Hengbei and present-day northern Han Chinese. We used a wide range of population genetic analyses, including principal component analyses, shared mtDNA haplotype analyses, and geographic mapping of maternal genetic distances. The results show that the ancient people of Hengbei bore a strong genetic resemblance to present-day northern Han Chinese and were genetically distinct from other present-day Chinese populations and two ancient populations. These findings suggest that the genetic structure of northern Han Chinese was already shaped 3,000 years ago in the Central Plain area. …