As the Han nationality with the largest population base in the Chinese nation, its history can be described as long.dal. From the time of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Han nationality has been initially formed, with the development of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, coupled with the integration and transformation of the nationalities in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the name Han appeared for the first time in the land of China.
If you count the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Han nationality has a history of more than 8,000 years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most historically rich nation in the world.
However, from the perspective of development history, the Han nationality cannot be regarded as a pure-bred single ethnic group. It is the result of the fusion of multiple ethnic groups, which means that every Han Chinese who calls himself Han may now have multi-ethnic blood in his body.
To define modern Han Chinese and pure-bred Han Chinese, archaeologists have divided a timeline. The Han people who had not been nationally integrated before the Qin and Han Dynasties were defined as pure-bred Han People, and the Han people after the Qin and Han Dynasties, especially after the Yuan Dynasty, which was greatly integrated, were all classified as the current Han People.
Here, some readers may wonder, aren't they all modern Han Chinese today? According to the history of intermarriage Chinese, there are still pure-bred Han Chinese. In fact, they have maintained the custom of intermarriage within the clan for thousands of years, and their bloodline has rarely been interfered with by foreign nationalities. And now in order to distinguish the modern Han people, they have deliberately changed their names, but few people know about it.
Moreover, everyone thinks that Mandarin is Chinese, but it is not. The truly authentic Chinese language, spoken by these pure-bred Han Chinese, is difficult for modern Han Chinese to understand.
After going around in such a big circle, what is the name of this pure-bred Han Chinese? They are the Hakka people who live in Fujian and Guangdong today. The number of people is not small, about 100 million.
It turned out that those ancient Han people who developed from the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in those years deliberately migrated to the south of China in order to escape the war and chaos during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Due to the mountains in Lingnan and Fujian, these settled Han Chinese are reclusive and rarely communicate with the outside world, let alone intermarry. Therefore, their traditional language and customs, and even their bloodline, are well preserved. Even in the Yuan Dynasty, where the great ethnic integration was great, they did not receive much influence.
For thousands of years, Hakka dialect has only circulated among these ancient Han ethnic groups, and has not spread and transmitted to the outside world, so it is reasonable that modern Han people cannot understand Hakka dialect. However, interested readers can go to listen to it, Hakka dialect is still quite ancient charm, very good.
So when did this group of ancient Han People start calling themselves Hakka? Although the historians understand the origins of the Hakka, they do not know anything about their subsequent development and migration process, and the Hakka records of their own history are also quite rare, how they evolved from the ancient Han to today's Hakka, the historians are still divided.
Moreover, there is growing evidence that the Hakka did not experience more than one migration during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. Instead, it was moved to the south many times, like the Jingkang Difficulty of the Song Dynasty, which may also be an important reason for the large number of Hakka people moving south.
Whatever the reason for moving south, now the Hakka family finally has their own safe place to live. Although historians will say that the Han people will have modern Han and ancient Han people, in real life, everyone is a unified Chinese nation, and no one deliberately pays attention to purity and impurity.
Excessive emphasis on blood has become the Nazi racism of that year, and the reason why the Chinese Han people can continue for 8,000 years and become the most historically rich nation in the world is inseparable from its strong inclusiveness. Both the Hakka and the Han chinese are now coexisting in harmony, and there is a unified name, that is, the sons and daughters of China.