What are the main characteristics of the Han Chinese?

(1) The Han people's lineage basically belongs to the Asian Mongolians, and the main influence on the Han people's lineage is the four major ethnic groups:

1. Ancient Han people, i.e., the Han people of the Qin-Han era, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family; Tatars, mainly including Huns and Khitans, belonging to the Altaic language family; Eastern Hu, mainly Xianbei people, belonging to the Tungusic language family;

2. Ancient Yue people. In terms of appearance and physique, the ancient Han people had a square face and a neutral appearance;

3, the Tartars had a round face, which was larger and more rugged; the Eastern Hu people had a long face or a melon face, with a large forehead, narrow gills and chin, and small eyes;

4, the ancient Yue people had a slightly darker complexion, with protruding eyeballs and less body hair.

(2) As the Han people now have gone through thousands of years of multi-ethnic integration, there are no very obvious mono-ethnic features in their physique. However, the Han Chinese belong to the Mongolian race, so the Mongolian race is characterized by distinctive features.

The physical characteristics of the Mongolian race is: skin color in the world in the middle of all races, hair straight and hard, body hair and beard less, nose width medium, lower nose, face flat, lip thickness moderate, eyelids more canthus folds; skull on the performance of the characteristics of the tip of the nose point of the index of the medium, higher orbital, flat facial bones, zygomatic bone prominent.

The Amerindian face is not as flat as that of the Mongolian race in Asia, and the prominence of the nose is slightly larger. The spade-shaped structure of the lingual surface of the upper incisors is also one of the distinctive features of the yellow race.

Expanded Information:

Characteristics:

1, Physical Shape: Broad shoulders, long torso, shorter limbs.

2, Body height: average over 1. 67 meters.

3, Teeth: often have skip-shaped incisors. (That is, the shape of the teeth is spade-shaped. Characterized by the outer edge of the incisors like the direction of the oral cavity rolled up, cross-section such as "on the map" shape. (The frequency of occurrence in Han Chinese is more than 98%)

4, Mongolian spots: the so-called "birthmarks", often appearing in infancy to the age of 5. (It is a black or greenish color on the body. (It is a black or green colored mole spot on the body. It is the newborn's sacral and buttock skin pigment aggregation, showing gray-blue patches. In Han Chinese, the frequency of this feature reaches 94%. (It usually disappears naturally, but some individuals preserve it for life).

The distribution of Han Chinese in China is characterized by a dense east and a sparse west. According to 1990 statistics, China's 1.039 billion Han Chinese population accounted for about 91.92% of the country's total population, with the proportion of Han Chinese to the total local population standing at 99.77% in Jiangsu and 99.49% in Zhejiang, while in Xinjiang and Tibet, it was 37.58% and 2.05%, respectively.

The population of the Han people, if counted from its ethnic origin, the Xia nationality, began to be about 2 million people, through the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and by the time of the Warring States period there were already about 20 million people. At the time of the formation of the Han Dynasty, the Han population has reached more than 50 million people, to the pre-Tang Dynasty reached between 80 million and 90 million people, to the Northern Song Dynasty reached more than 104.41 million people during the Da Guan?

After the Yuan Dynasty, under the general trend of China's unification, the snowball that is the Han population got bigger and bigger. The population reached 150 million in the twenty-eighth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1601). By the 30th year of the Qing Daoguang period (1851), it reached more than 400 million, and by the time the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, it had a population of about 600 million, and by the end of the 20th century it had reached more than 1 billion.

Geographically, it developed from the Yellow River and Yangtze River Basin southward to the Pearl River Basin to Taiwan Island and Hainan Island, northeastward to the Heilongjiang Basin, northwestward to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and southwestward to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

Folk

Generally speaking, people of the same folk lineage live in the same or similar regions and share the same regional identity. The regional identity often becomes the name of the folk lineage, a typical example being the Chaozhou folk lineage. Among the Han folk systems, the Hakka folk system is the only Han folk system that is not named after a region.

For Han Chinese, Yanhuang identity is one of the signifiers and representatives of the spiritual tradition of the nation. Similarly, for the folk lineages under the nation, people in the same folk lineage often have a strong sense of identification with a particular thing, believing that this thing represents certain characteristics and spiritual traditions of the folk lineage to which they belong.

The Han people, the main ethnic group in China, are the descendants of the Huangdi and Yandi tribes in the ancient times, the children of the Yellow Emperor. Han" originally referred to the heavenly river, the cosmic Milky Way, and the "Book of Songs" says: "There is a Han in the sky, and there is a light on the monitor." The Han people were named after the Han Dynasty of China, and before the Han Dynasty, they were called "Huaxia" or "Zhuxia".

Whether in politics, military, philosophy, literature, history, art and many other aspects, or in the field of natural sciences, the Han people have created a lot of brilliant performance.

Since ancient times, the Han people have adopted an eclectic attitude toward various religious beliefs. The worship of providence and ancestor worship are the main traditional concepts of Han religion. For thousands of years, the promotion of benevolence as the center and the emphasis on ethical education, and the Confucian doctrine formed by the thought system of Confucius and Mencius have had a profound influence on the Han people.

The Han people have traditionally been known for their industriousness and creative spirit. Historically, the Han economy has been based on agriculture, with family sideline businesses, a typical natural economy of men plowing and women weaving. The agricultural production of the Han people has always been developed in history, especially with water irrigation and fine plowing is famous in the world, the Han handicraft industry also has a fairly high level of development.

And with the changes in China's history, as well as factors such as foreign invasions and escaping from wars, the Han Chinese have also undergone large-scale migrations, and have been moving southward from the Central Plains. The Hakka people inherited the cultural traditions of the Han people in the Central Plains at that time, such as the ancient language, and the customs have historical traces.

The Han Chinese are also an ethnic group with an unbroken and long history, and the most populous ethnic group in the world. As of 2009, the Han population was about 1.3 billion, or about 19% of the world's total population, distributed all over the world.

In mainland China, Han Chinese make up 92% of the total population; in Taiwan, Han Chinese make up 98% of the total population; and in Hong Kong and Macau, Han Chinese make up 95% and 97% of the total population, respectively. ? In addition to the three places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in China, the Han Chinese are also more widely distributed in Southeast Asia, North America and Western Europe.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Han Chinese