The Han nationality is the main ethnic group in China, a descendant of the ancient Huangdi and Yan Di tribes, and a descendant of the Chinese nation.
Chinese belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family, and there are seven dialects. Modern Chinese is based on northern dialects, and Beijing dialect is the standard pronunciation. Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of about 6000 years. They gradually evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze to today's square characters. * * More than 40,000 words, and there are about 7,000 commonly used words. Now they are one of the international languages.
Since 1950s, the China government has carried out a systematic reform of Chinese characters, and formulated a "Chinese Pinyin Scheme" to popularize Putonghua and simplify Chinese characters.
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The Han nationality is based on farming.
The Han nationality has not produced a religion that the whole nation must believe in, and some people believe in Buddhism, Catholicism and Christianity.
The most solemn festival of Han nationality is Spring Festival, as well as Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day.
1, daily food customs
The production and management mode of the Han nationality, which mainly focuses on agriculture and supplemented by family farming, has a long history, which has had a far-reaching impact on the lifestyle and diet structure of the Han nationality. It has formed a basic diet structure with food crops as the staple food and various animal foods and vegetables as the non-staple food. This is in sharp contrast with the diet structure of ethnic groups in western China, Tibetans and Mongolians.
In addition, the habit of eating three meals a day has been formed in the long-term national development. Of the three meals, lunch and dinner are the main meals. Three meals a day. The collocation of staple food, dishes and drinks in three meals a day not only has certain similarity, but also forms a series of specific characteristics due to different geographical and climatic environment, economic development level, production and living conditions and other reasons.
2. Festive diet customs
On the one hand, the diet of the Han nationality is directly influenced by the local natural environment, and it is also closely related to a certain social and cultural environment. /kloc-The 0/8-year-old festival is an important period to show the Han people's food culture.
Han nationality, like other nationalities, is rich in holiday food. It often skillfully combines rich nutrition, pleasing artistic forms and profound cultural connotations to become a typical festival food culture.
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