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The term is used to distinguish the majority from the various minorities in and around China. The name comes from the Han Dynasty which ruled the parts of China where Han Chinese originate. Even today many Chinese people call themselves "Han persons" (Hànrén). The term Han Chinese is sometimes used synonomously with " Chinese" without regard to the other 55 minority Chinese ethnic groups; this usage tends to be frowned upon by Chinese.
Many Uyghurs, either disparagingly call the Han Chinese Anangga ski Hanzular or apply on them the historical ethnonym of Hitay ( Khitan), originally belonging to a Confucian, Mongolic state, that once lorded over the Turkic Kara-Khanid s. It is interesting to note that the designations for the Chinese in the Russian and Mongol languages today, Kitaj and Khyatad, respectively, derives from the original Mongolic ethnonym, yielding these nations' perception of the Chinese State's northern nomad, Altaic origin.
Among Han Chinese, there is a wide diversity of distinct cultural and linguistic groups. The differences among regional and linguistic subgroups of Han Chinese are at least as great as those among many European nationalities. Han Chinese speak many varieties of Chinese spoken language which are generally labelled as different Chinese dialects although the difference between them is greater than many European languages. Cultural differences (cuisine, costume, and custom) are equally great. Modern Chinese history provides many examples of conflict, up to the level of small-scale regional wars, between linguistic and regional groups.
Such diversities, however, have not generated exclusive ethnic identities, and distinctions in religion or political affiliation have not reinforced regional differences. Rather, there has been a consistent tendency in Chinese thought and practice to downplay intra-Han distinctions, which are regarded as minor and superficial.
One factor in Han ethnic unity is the Chinese written language. Chinese is written with ideographs (sometimes called Chinese characterTraditional Chinese and other languages. Simplified Chinese Chinese characters or Han characters (/) are used in the written forms of the Chinese language, and to varying degrees in the Japanese and Korean languages (though the latter only in South Korea)s) that represent meanings rather than sounds, and so written Chinese does not reflect the speech of its author. The disjunction between written and spoken Chinese means that a newspaper published in BeijingBeijing Sh Abbreviation: ( pinyin: Jing The Forbidden City Origin of Name bei north jing capital put together: northern capital Pronounced''Bay-jing (J as in joy Area Total % of national Ranked 29th 16,808 km² 0. 175% Population Total ( 2001) % of nationa can be read in ShanghaiAlternate meanings: See Shanghai (disambiguation Shanghai ( Chinese: , pinyin: shang hi; Shanghainese IPA: /z h/) is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta. In Chinese, Shanghai's abbreviations are H ( or ) and Shen . or GuangzhouGuangzhou ( TC: ; SC: ; Hanyu Pinyin: Gungzhu; Wade-Giles: Kuang-chou; Tongyong Pinyin: Guangjhou) is the capital of the Guangdong Province in southern China. Its international name was formerly Canton after a French language corruption of "Guangdong"., although the residents of the three cities would not necessarily understand each other's speech. It also means that there can be no specifically Cantonese Chinese or HunanHunan ( Pinyin: Hu'nan) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the Dongting Lake (hence the name Hunan meaning "south of the lake"). Hunan is sometimes called "Xiang" for short, after the Xiang River whichese literature because the local speech of a region cannot be directly or easily represented in writing. (It is possible to add local color to fiction, cite colloquialisms, or transcribe folk songs, but it is not commonly done.) Therefore, local languages have not become a focus for regional self-consciousness or nationalism.
Han Chinese usually wear WesternFor alternative meanings for "The West" in the United States, see The West (U. Western states. The term Western world can have multiple meanings depending on its context. Originally defined as Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of-style clothing. Traditional Han Chinese clothingHan Chinese clothing or Hanfu ( TC: ; SC: ; pinyin: hanfu;; literally "Clothing of the Han people") refers to the pre- 17th century traditional clothing of the Han Chinese, the predominant ethnic group of China, Hanfu encompasses all types of traditional is no longer worn except as a curiosity.
Within some variants of Chinese nationalist theory, China is composed of many ethnic groups, and promoting the interest and culture of Han Chinese at the expense of the other ethnic groups is known as Han chauvinism, which has a pejorative meaning. However, some Han Chinese equate Chinese nationalism with Han nationalism.
See also: List of Chinese ethnic groups
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| Achang - Bai - Blang - Bonan - Buyi - Dai - Daur - De'ang - Dong - Dongxiang - Drung - Evenks - Gaoshan - Gelao - Gin - Han - Hani - Hezhen - Hui - Jingpo - Jino - Kazakh - Kirghiz - Koreans - Lahu - Lhoba - Li - Lisu - Manchu - Maonan - Monpa - Miao - Mongols - Mulam - Naxi - Nu - Oroqin - Pumi - Qiang - Russian - Salar - She - Shui - Tajik - Tatars - Tibetan - Tu - Tujia - Uyghur - Uzbek - Wa - Xibe - Yao - Yi - Yugur - Zhuang
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