The history of China

The great Chinese nation had already passed 5000 years civilization history. In ancient Chinese ground, industrious, courage, wisdom peoples together

Exploit the vast territory, jointly created a united multi-ethnic country, common development the splendid Chinese culture. A heavy history of all ethnic groups in China, is a blend of birth, development, and jointly created the history of national unification.

With the yellow emperor yan have been regarded as the nation's father. Myth originated in shaanxi weihe basin in tribal leader in central. The mandarin "load:" yesterday in less 蟜's cult marry and culture, born in water (ji. Yellow emperor weihe tributaries, today sixeable guanzhong central paint) river, water with ginger into water (yan, sixeable guanzhong weihe tributaries today JiangHe) into western qing. Into different, so for the emperor's yan's for ginger. Second, with both praise with teacher's the reason, also different DE." This is as we now see the earliest record emperor yan, the birthplace historical data. Later in order to compete for territory, two tribal launch came through the war, springs emperor yan, defeated the two tribes gradually merge into huaxia clan, clan in the han dynasty later called Chinese han, tang later called dynasty. Emperor yan and China is the father of culture and technology, legend them and their servant, offspring created ancient almost all important invention.

The ancient times from early, the ancestors of all nationalities, labor, reflection, multiply in the above the earth. We unified multinational country, 5,000 years, especially since more than 4,000 years of dynasties in the lower Yellow River area, all nationalities in the fusion of longtime formed and developed.

The lost-wax spring and autumn and warring states, qin and han dynasties were laid basically not only with the Chinese nation as the center of the zhongyuan dynasty, and started territory scale will Chinese ground had received, nomadic hunting and farming "mix and received for a" first thought-unification. Qin in today in succession of guangxi, yunnan, guizhou, hainan, etc, in this setting counties western xinjiang region Settings in the northwest protect mansion, a government to protect the qiang brith uriah in the northeast, a uriah huan huan is region government protection, first time in history, put these frontier minority areas into the central government effective governance within the territory. From then on, started our political structure of thought-unification.

Jin and southern and northern dynasties sui end for over 300 years of war, in national migration and large fusion basis than the han dynasty established more vast territory, the national unified pattern more numerous. In the early tang dynasty implement liberal national policy, coupled with the national strength strong, culture, and enhance the peripheral national advanced the centripetal force and cohesion, contributed to "hu the emergence of a" pomp. This period, tang has unified the east and the west the turks, and turks mostly BeiTing two established anxi and protect mansion management stratocracy priority. For other ethnic areas has been set, tang also break away from the house, a state, some also directly set way, mansion, state, be effective jurisdiction. Tang dynasty under unified leadership and governance minorities in the booming development, promote the strength of the tang dynasty is strong and territory enlargement.

The song dynasty though successively qidan people bond with the rulers, nvzhen nationality, but the national long-term write the each other between contact and communication is very close. Liao, jin and xia, Dali, etc energetically absorbed central regime han dynasty ruled experience and political system, the elements of culture in the central plain in the unity of yuan dynasty, for the following prepared conditions.

The yuan dynasty started "provinces" system, now of Inner Mongolia, xinjiang, guangxi, yunnan, guizhou, lands in national regions of jurisdiction. A mission ZhengYuan direct management Tibet, set the penghu inspection company management in penghu, Taiwan, but clouds, expensive, sichuan, kang in national regions such as a toast to a central system, strengthening border area of governance. Especially the yuan dynasty first the qinghai-tibet plateau directly into the complete map of zhongyuan dynasty in multiethnic united China formation and history it has important position.

The Ming dynasty territory had include the scope of mainland 18 provinces today. The northeast over sea in early hongwu, hubei khodorkovsky times to sea, uzziah's instead, river basin after liaohe basin; Early hongwu north of Silas wood Aaron river area after this wall; instead, Northwest to xinjiang, instead of as far as the jiayu pass; after hami And CengZaiJin northeast area, xinjiang eastern, Tibet has under its institutions. Chengzu of the Ming period even short and ruled kofi annan (now conquered Vietnam). After the Ming dynasty, the qing dynasty replaced the unity of the nationalities further consolidate and development. In the north, has unified the Mongolian south Mongolian, mo MoBei halh Mongolia and desert west eritrea in three parts of Mongolia flute. In xinjiang and the Tibetan regions, successively quelled junggar department, size and series, maintenance and consolidate the rebellion of xinjiang, Tibet region unity. Meanwhile, against the tsarist aggression, strengthening the minority regions of heilongjiang valley of management.

Following the opium war in 1840, JianChuanLiBao by western powers from coastal opened the doors, and then China the aggression in March to seize the minority regions. Before the crisis of committing genocide in capturing the fate of all nationalities of China tightly together. Western powers take China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal process, is also the peoples in China a common danger causes common action, unyieldingly together for national independence peaceful liberation, to safeguard national unity and territorial integrity of the process. During the first opium war, han, Mongol, full, Tibetan, qiang, yi, tujia, etc to the front line, all military fight together. The second opium war, tianjin DaGu the fort the full, han defenders and Mongolian cavalry, overcome the anglo-french allied. Tibet in lung vomit civilian and military campaigns and jomzi battle mountain, successively to Britain with powerful blow. The invaders In the law in the war, strong, yi people's resolutely counterattack France such family of southwest China's aggression. The northeast region of the full, han, tahur, owenk, the hezhen nationality people, such as the family of northwest Uighur, kirgiz, hui, Mongolia, successively with family such as Russia's a resolute struggle on the invaders. All ethnic groups in xinjiang, the vigorously support fellow ZuoZongTang rout led the army HaoHanGuo AGuBai central quickly regained control of aggression, xinjiang.

After the revolution of 1911, founded in 1912 as the "republic of China", "China", this name will be officially become China amount. On October 1, 1949, when the founding of the People's Republic of China for the "name" is also referred to as "China".