Huaxia

Also known as Zhonghua, Zhong Hua, Zhong zhou, Zhong yuan, Zhong tu, Hua Xia nation

Huaxia is a historical concept representing the Chinese nation, and came from the self-awareness of a common cultural ancestry by ancestral populations of the Han people.

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Chinese.title: Huaxia
Chinese.pic: Ma Yuan - Water Album - The Yellow River Breaches its Course.jpg
Chinese.piccap: The Yellow River Breaches its Course by Ma Yuan, Song dynasty
Chinese.picsize: 260px
Chinese.s: 华夏
Chinese.p: Huáxià
Chinese.gr: Hwashiah
Chinese.l: beautiful grandeur
Chinese.gan: fa4 ha5
Chinese.poj: hôa-hā
Chinese.wuu: gho ya
Chinese.j: waa4 haa6
Chinese.h: fa11 ha55
Chinese.mc: hwæ hæX
Chinese.oc bs: &ast;

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Huaxia is a historical concept representing the Chinese nation, and came from the self-awareness of a common cultural ancestry by ancestral populations of the Han people.

== Etymology == The earliest extant authentic attestation of the Huaxia concept is in the Zuo Zhuan, a historical narrative and commentary authored before 300 BCE. In Zuo zhuan, Huaxia refers to the central states (中國 zhōngguó) in the Yellow River valley, dwelt by the Huaxia people, ethnically equivalent to Han Chinese in pre-imperial discourses who are said to be the descendants of the Yellow Emperor.