DNA test results show that there is no pure Han Chinese or

More recently, after scientists found that China does not really exist pure Han people, even the concept of Han Chinese, in DNA testing have already gone under.

College of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Associate Professor Xie Dong told reporters: "In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, its capital in the Western Zhou Dynasty in Xi'an today is certainly the Han, but in the Spring and Autumn period, also was born in Shaanxi Province, Qin directly be defined as Rong, became the minority . "Xie Dong said. "Therefore, only a certain period of the Han people of the regional division of the nation does not have its specific definition, but in order to distinguish with the surrounding established." Along with the changes in Chinese history, even if the precise definition of the Han ethnic group had been local residents, but also large-scale migration took place. Due to military service, to avoid war, because of such factors as the crime of exile, Han has been moved south from the Central Plains region. "China there is no pure Han race and long-term large-scale migration also has a relationship, in a very long historical period, the surrounding ethnic minorities and even neighboring countries have been integrated with the Han."

2010-02-08