Names of China
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China has many contemporary and historical designations given in various languages for the East Asian country known as 中国; 中國; Zhōngguó in Standard Chinese, a form based on the Beijing dialect of Mand
He zun rubbing and transcription; framed is the phrase 宅𢆶𠁩或; zhái zī zhōng yù; 'inhabit this central state'.
The brocade armband with the words "Five stars rising in the east, being a propitious sign for Zhongguo (中國)", made during the Han dynasty
The Nestorian Stele 大秦景教流行中國碑 entitled "Stele to the propagation in China of the luminous religion of Daqin", was erected in 781, during the Tang dynasty
The 1446 Korean document, Hunminjeongeum, compares Joseon's speech to that of Zhongguo (Middle Kingdom), at the time the Ming dynasty. Korean and other neighbouring societies referred to various Chinese regimes and dynasties as "Middle Kingdom"
Han Chinese
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The Han Chinese, alternatively Han people, or Chinese people, are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's larg
Officials during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) wearing hanfu
A woman wearing ruqun, one of the most distinctive set of attire of female hanfu
A man wearing daopao, one of the most distinctive set of attire of male hanfu
Guo Ziyi, who quelled the An Lushan rebellion, which caused a fall in recorded numbers of Tang inhabitants from 53 million to 17 million people