Huaxia (traditional Chinese: 華夏; simplified Chinese: 华夏; pinyin: Huáxià) is a name often used to represent China or Chinese civilization. Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National
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Etymology
According to the historical record, Zuo Zhuan, the ancient Xia Dynasty of central China was a state that held propriety and justice in high esteem, thus the word xia (夏), which has the meaning of "great" or "grand", was used by subsequent dynasties to refer to the entire country as a mark of refined culture. The Zuo Zhuan ( translated as the Chronicle of Zuo or the Commentary of Zuo, is the earliest Chinese work of narrative history and The Xia Dynasty ( of China is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Records of the Grand Historian and The word hua (華) was also used in reference to the beautiful clothing that people in ancient China wore, as the word means "illustrious" and "splendid". (中國有禮儀之大，故稱夏；有服章之美，謂之華。)
It is also possible that xia referred to Xiashui (夏水), another name for the Han River, and hua referred to Mount Hua. The Han River ( in China was often referred to as Hànshǔi (漢水 "Han water" in antiquity Hua Shan (Simplified 华山 Traditional 華山 PinyinHuà Shān is located in the Shaanxi Province, about 100 kilometres east of the city of Xi'an, near Both the river and the mountain were historically and culturally significant to ancient China.
Historical development
In the narrow, original sense, Huaxia refers to a group (or confederation of tribes) of ancient people living along the Yellow River who formed the nucleus of what later became the Han ethnic group in China. The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho ( Hatan Gol Queen river) is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the Han Chinese ( are an Ethnic group native to China and by most modern definitions the largest single Ethnic group in the world. In this sense, the term did not originally represent China or Chinese civilisation as a whole, but referred instead to a specific ethno-cultural group (the Huaxia tribe or confederacy 華夏族) that was distinct from other Chinese peoples at the time, such as the Miao and the Dongyi. The Miao ( Vietnamese: Mèo or H'Mông Thai: แม้ว (Maew or ม้ง (Mong Burmese: mun lu-myo) are a linguistically and culturally Dongyi (東夷 was a collective term for people in Eastern China and in the east of China. Subsequently, with the spread of Han culture over most of China, the term came to be used as a generic term for the Chinese nation itself, as well as for Chinese culture in general (including that shared by the overseas Chinese). China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National
Modern references
Although still used in conjunction, Hua (華) and Xia (夏) are more often used separately to represent things Chinese. Hua, in particular, has become almost synonymous with Chinese civilization.
The official Chinese names of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China refer to Huaxia in using the term Zhonghua (中華) to refer to China as a country. Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES The PRC's Chinese name is "中華人民共和國" and the ROC's Chinese name is "中華民國".
The character hua is also often used, in the terms Huaqiao (華僑) and Huaren (華人), by the Overseas Chinese to refer to themselves. The term does not denote citizenship, but makes a reference to their ancestral origins.
The Chinese calendar is also known as the "Xia Li" (夏曆). The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a Lunar calendar with those of a Solar calendar.
The Dynasty business class service on China Airlines is called "Huaxia Class" in Chinese. China Airlines Limited ( Chinese: 中華航空公司 ( Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Hángkōng gōngsī commonly abbreviated 華航 is the Flag carrier
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