In Zuo Zhuan, the phrase "Chinese people don't seek summer, and foreigners don't mess with China" is synonymous with China and Xia, and China is summer.
"Hua" is also called "midsummer", and Confucius regards "Xia" and "Hua" as synonyms.
"Hua" and "Xia" have a very lofty position in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
About the Spring and Autumn Period, China ancient books began to use "Hua" and "Xia" together, which was called "Huaxia nation".
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Huaxia is a self-proclaimed name of ancient Han people, and it is often called "Xia" or "Hua" in pre-Qin classics.
Used to distinguish the four barbarians (Dongyi, Nanman, Xirong and Beidi).
Now it is used as the title of China and Han nationality.
"Huaxia", commonly known as China, is said that about 5000 years ago, there were many tribes between Huashan and Xiashui in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River basin, among which the later Yan Di tribe and Huangdi tribe were more important.
The "Chinese nation" formed by the integration of Yanhuang tribes is the "descendants of China".
According to the records of the Five Emperors, the head of the Five Emperors was the Yellow Emperor, and later people called the Yellow Emperor the ancestor of the Chinese people.
After the Yellow Emperor, Tang Yao, Yu Shun, Yu Xia and others are the most famous.
Yu is the leader of the tribe, surnamed Yu, also known as Dayu.
Xia Dayu played an important role in water control and became the first dynasty in China after the Central Plains tribe * * *.
Xia Dynasty was a central political power in ancient times, and "Xia people" were "China people" and "Huaxia" was synonymous with China.
A region with high culture is called "Summer", and a nation or ethnic group with high civilization is called "China".
Together, "Huaxia" represents that China is a central power with a high degree of civilization and developed culture. Over time, "Huaxia" has become synonymous with the Han nationality.
In China's credible literature, the word Huaxia first appeared in Shangshu Wucheng.
"Huaxia is quite arrogant and useless." The pseudo-biography of Confucius is interpreted as "crowned as a Chinese costume, and a big country is summer."
Zuo Zhuan Ding Gong Ten Years: "Ethnic minorities don't seek summer, and foreigners don't mess with China" [1].
"Spring and Autumn Zuozhuan Justice": "China has a big gift, so it is called Xia; There is the beauty of service seal, which is called China. " [2] It means that China is a state of etiquette, so it is called "Xia", which means elegance.
People in China wear beautiful clothes and pretend to be "flashy".
With the expansion of living space, the Chinese nation flourished. In the Han and Tang Dynasties, the population, culture and economy reached an unprecedented height, and in the Song Dynasty, the humanities reached its peak. The word "* * *" was widely called Huaxia nationality by Mongols in Yuan Dynasty.
Later known as the Han nationality.