What is the difference between the Huaxia and Han Chinese?

There is no difference between the Huaxia and the Han Chinese, they are the same name at different times.

The Huaxia people are the first and most recognized ethnic group in the Chinese nation, also known as "Xia" and "Zhu Xia". The Chinese are also known as the Chinese summer. Hua and Xia were once used interchangeably, and "Zhongxia" was also known as "Zhonghua".

The Han Dynasty was known as the "People of Huaxia". And the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Han Dynasty, also known as Huaxia, the two words are synonymous. In short, Han and Huaxia as a whole are the most common names since the Han Dynasty until now.

In ancient times, when the Han Chinese emigrated overseas, they called themselves Huaxia people, which gave rise to the term "Chinese". The term "Chinese" initially referred to the Han Chinese, but as the Chinese civilization spread throughout the country, the concept of "Chinese" gradually expanded from referring to the Han Chinese alone, to include the ethnic minorities in China who were influenced by the Chinese civilization, and became a synonym for the entire Chinese nation.

The Han Chinese are the main ethnic group in China, the descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Di tribes in the ancient times, the children of the Yellow Emperor. "Han" originally refers to the heavenly river, the cosmic Milky Way, the "Poetry Classic" cloud: "Vital sky has Han, the monitor also has light." The Han people were named after the Han Dynasty of China, and before the Han Dynasty, they were called "Huaxia" or "Zhuxia".

Expanded Information

The ethnic name of Han was established during the formation and development of China's unified multi-ethnic state. In 206 B.C. the Han Dynasty succeeded the Qin and the rise, before and after more than 400 years, the economy, culture and the unification of the country had a new development, the original name of the Huaxia residents of the Central Plains known as the Han people. In the subsequent historical development, the Han people became the ethnic name of the main ethnic group in China, and accounted for the vast majority of China's population in successive generations, and dominated in all aspects of the development of the Han people.

The Han people through the **** with the various ethnic groups, migration, integration, the formation of the Songliao Plain and the Yellow River, Huaihe River, the Yangtze River, the Pearl River and other agriculturally developed areas and cities centralized distribution, and in the border and the local ethnic groups intermingled with the distribution of the characteristics of the miscellaneous. In addition, in the process of historical development, a considerable number of Han Chinese population migrated overseas, forming the local Chinese or overseas Chinese.

Baidu Encyclopedia: The Huaxia Nation