The early history of the Chinese people, when was the Chinese nation formed?

It is the descendants of the tribal people of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor who grew up in the Yellow River valley, called the Huaxia famous people, which is now the Han nationality.

In the late Three Emperors era, clans gradually developed into tribes, and finally, the leader of the Yandi, who loosely managed a group of farming tribes, appeared. The seventh generation of Emperor Yan in history is a transitional period from the Three Emperors to the Five Emperors.

At the end of the Yandi era, the Xuanyuan clan rose up in the north, defeated the Yandi, and unified the tribes in the Yellow River valley by force, and established the power of the tribal alliance, called the Yellow Emperor. At this time, ancient Chinese history entered the period of the Five Emperors. The era of the Five Emperors belonged to the late period of primitive society, and by the time of the last emperor, Emperor Yu and Emperor Shun, there was a family name of Hua.

Later, after the development of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese cultural model was gradually finalized. Historically, the ethnic group that represents this cultural pattern is called the Chinese nation.

After Pangu opened the world, there was a Chinese family.

When there are people, the Chinese nation is formed!!

From about 5000 BC, the Huaxia originated and gradually developed in the Central Plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and after entering the Neolithic period, they successively experienced the stages of matrilineal and patrilineal clan communes. In 2700 BC, legend has it that there was a tribe surnamed Ji in the central region of Shaanxi, and the leader was the Yellow Emperor. To the east of it, there is also a tribe surnamed Jiang headed by Emperor Yan.

They all originated from the Shaodian clan, a primitive farming clan, but there was frequent friction between the two sides. The Battle of Hanquan finally broke out between the two tribes in the Central Plains, and the Yellow Emperor defeated the Yan Emperor, after which the two tribes formed an alliance and conquered the surrounding tribes, from which the predecessor of the Huaxia tribe was born.

Ancient legends also describe that the ancestors of the Han people experienced a long era of primitive commune system. Before the Yellow Emperor, it passed through the stage of matrilineal clans and tribes that "knew the mother but did not know the father". The legend of the Yellow Emperor marks the transformation from a matrilineal clan tribe to a patrilineal clan tribe and has entered the stage of tribal alliance.

Yao, Shun, and Yu, who successively became the leaders of the Great Tribal Alliance in the form of Zen after the Yellow Emperor, are considered to be the descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

In the 21st century BC, the era of primitive communes in the Central Plains came to an end of history, and class society had emerged in the land of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Emperor Yan in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the Yellow Emperor in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River had a Hanquan controversy, and the small sect of Emperor Yan was subsumed into the Yellow Emperor Dazong, and the Yellow Emperor became the ancestor of the humanistic and Taoist system. Yan Huang reunited into the Huaxia clan, and the Shaodian clan was reunited.

How did the predecessor of the Huaxia people come about?

The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor formed a tribal alliance, and after a long period of development, the Huaxia tribe was gradually formed.

Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang were famous tribal leaders in the Yellow River Valley of China about four or five thousand years ago. At that time, there were frequent wars between tribes. The Yandi tribe and the Yellow Emperor tribe united and defeated the powerful Chiyou tribe in the east.

Later, the two tribes formed an alliance, and after a long period of development, they formed the main body of the future Huaxia tribe.

The concept of Chinese identity is the idea of the unification of the Chinese region, that is, the Chinese nation, and the formation of a common and consistent concept.

The concept of Chinese identity was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the patriarchal feudal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed, the Zhou royal family declined, and the actual control ability of the Zhou king was weakened, and the concept of Chinese identity was born.

In the history of Chinese civilization, Fuxi, Yandi, Lieshan, Gongpai Wugong, Siyue, Jintian, Dayu and so on are all ancient Qiang people. The mythical and legendary Queen Mother of the West is actually a beautiful interpretation of the struggle between Qiang people and nature in a matriarchal society. The Zhou people are probably a Qiang people from Xirong, and Jiang Taigong Lu Shang is a member of the "Jiang Family's Rong".

The ancient legend of returning to serve also describes that the ancestors of the Han nationality experienced a long era of primitive commune system.

The Huaxia ethnic group is the predecessor of the Han nationality, and Huaxia is also known as Hua, Zhuhua, Xia, Zhuxia, and Zhongxia. It is the self-name of the ancestors of the Han people who lived in the Central Plains in ancient times to distinguish the four Yi (Dongyi, Nanman, Xirong, Beidi), also known as China.

After the Han Dynasty, it was also called Han people, but the title Huaxia did not disappear because of this, but continues to this day. Before the twentieth century, the most commonly used term was Huaxia. For example, the Han Dynasty mostly regarded themselves as Chinese.

The Ming Dynasty regarded itself as both Han and Chinese, and the two words were synonymous. In short, Han and Huaxia as a whole are the most common ethnic names since the Han Dynasty.

Characteristics of the formation of the Chinese nation

1. From the perspective of cohesion, the pluralistic and integrated pattern of the Chinese nation has a core Han nationality that unites other ethnic minorities.

In the dawn period of the development of Chinese civilization, that is, from the new period to the Bronze Age, the Han nationality has formed the predecessor of the Han nationality group in the middle reaches of the Yellow River.

By the time the Qin and Han dynasties formed a unified dynasty, the Han nationality was basically formed, and scholars generally believe that the ethnic name of the Han nationality was only popular during the subsequent period of the great integration of the northern and southern dynasties, and it was the collective name of other ethnic groups for the Central Plains.

2. From the perspective of the primary and secondary reasons for promoting national integration, the need for social and economic development is the main reason, and the political factor is the secondary factor.

Throughout the history of the development of the Chinese nation over several thousand years, the policies of national oppression, ethnic discrimination, and ethnic assimilation carried out by political grand nationalism have often exacerbated the national resistance of the dominated ethnic groups, intensified the prevalence of narrow-minded local nationalism, and instead widened the psychological distance between ethnic groups.

An important reason why the Han nationality has always been able to serve as the cohesive core of the Chinese nation is that the Han nationality has an advanced agricultural economy, and although the areas inhabited by ethnic minorities occupy more than half of China's land area, they are mainly plateaus, mountains and grasslands.

From the perspective of field archaeology, there were different types of civilizations in the southeast, northwest and northwest of China throughout the Neo-Stoneware Age, which influenced each other and developed in a staggered manner. For example, the civilization represented by Dawenkou in the east, the Hemudu culture and Liangzhu culture in the southeast, the Qujialing culture in the south, the Hongshan culture in the north, the Yangshao culture in the Central Plains and the west, and so on.

In prehistory, the Central Plains culture was not always the most advanced type of culture, such as the painted pottery and bronze in the Ganqing region, which seem to be slightly earlier than the Central Plains. Zhejiang's Liangzhu culture, compared with the Yangshao culture of the same era, has many advanced places, especially the class nature of jade sacrifices and tombs.

The demise of the Liangzhu culture is an interesting topic, from 2200 to 1300 BC, there seems to be a fault for hundreds of years, after the fault, it completely lagged behind the Central Plains and was deeply influenced by the Shang culture. I always suspect that it was a big natural disaster, such as a flood, that destroyed the Liangzhu culture. It can also be a reference to the common mythological motif of all mankind – the Great Flood.

The cultures of different regions blended with each other to form the Chinese civilization, which is also carefully and elaborately expressed in Chinese historical texts and myths. The Yellow Emperor arose in the West, Xia Yu was the Qiang people in the West, Emperor Yan was the god of fire from the south, and the leader of the three Miao Jiuli in the south, Chi You, after the defeat, a large part of its tribe was also integrated into the ancient Huaxia tribe. Dongyi in the East is also an important branch of China, and their tribal leaders Taihao, Shaohao, and Houyi occupy an important position in ancient Chinese mythology.

It is always suspected that Yan Huangquan is a legendary figure, not a real tribal leader, and the truly certain clan leader in China should be counted from Tang Yao and Yu Shun. Because many stories of the Yellow Emperor Yan are too similar to Yao Shun, I always feel that the Yellow Emperor is the deified Yao.

In the southeast, northwest, and northwest, the various ethnic groups of nomadic farming and hunting, migrated and fought, exchanged and integrated, and finally formed a Chinese tribe in the Xia and Shang eras. The totem of the Chinese people, the dragon, is also a hybrid of the totems of various ethnic groups, such as snakes, lizards, birds, tigers, and so on. In this, no one or any kind of culture was dominant from the beginning, and it was only in the Yao Shunyu era that the emerging Chinese people began to form a certain advantage over the surrounding ethnic groups.

In the historical era, the Chinese nation has been constantly absorbing new ingredients and new blood. The nomadic peoples of the north, in particular, are always repeating the interesting process of rising, invading south, accepting civilization, assimilating and dissolving. It is undeniable that the steppe nomads are more combative than the Huaxia people, and the iron horsemen of the steppe have crossed the Great Wall again and again, invading the heartland of the Huaxia people, except for the Han Wu Tang Sect, the Huaxia people seem to be being invaded in defense most of the time.

In fact, the Li Tang Dynasty was also a half-Hu and half-Chinese dynasty. However, as a result, the steppe peoples who invaded the Central Plains and were more affected by the influence of Chinese civilization were basically assimilated (the Mongols were an exception), such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic and later Khitan Jurchens. Moreover, the assimilated grassland peoples, without exception, began to decline and began to weaken, lost the spirit of the grassland eagle, and finally became authentic Chinese people.

The Huaxia nationality is the earliest and most recognized ethnic title of the Chinese nation, and Huaxia is also known as "Xia" and "Zhuxia". Huaxia is also known as Zhongxia. Hua and Xia Zeng are common to each other, and "Zhongxia" is also known as "China". Confucius regarded "Xia" and "Hua" as synonymous.

The Xia tribe, the leader is the Yellow Emperor, and there is also a Jiang surnamed Hua tribe headed by Emperor Yan to the south, and there are often frictions between the two sides. The two major tribes finally broke out in the Hanquan Controversy, the Yellow Emperor defeated the Yan Emperor, and the Huaxia tribe was born.

There is a part of the Chinese civilization that is itself a civilization created by the laws of nature. Then, with the birth of the fire civilization, the Yanhuang He people created the Chinese civilization, and these two parts are the real creators of the Chinese civilization, that is, nature and Chinese ancestors. The source of civilization in these regions is still the same, and you can see the jade of each new era, which is square outside and round inside.

In the prehistoric regional culture, there is no concept of closing the potato and the materialized display of the outer square and inner circle of the ritual utensils, so it is necessary to carefully identify their ethnic groups. Since the Yanhuang He tribe, the Huaxia people have begun to rule the Asian world.