Legend has it that Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang are regarded as the ancestors of the Chinese nation. Legend has it that they came from the same tribe and later became the leaders of two rival tribes. Two tribes started the battle of Hanquan, and the Yellow Emperor defeated Yan Di. The two tribes gradually merged into Huaxia, which was called Han after Han and Tang after Tang. Yan Di and the Yellow Emperor are also the ancestors of China's culture and technology. It is said that they and their courtiers and descendants created almost all the important inventions in ancient times.
Later, several legendary ancient emperors were regarded as the direct descendants of the Yellow Emperor until the Xia, Shang and Zhou emperors, and even barbarians and barbarians were included in this system. Later emperors also claimed that they were descendants of the Yellow Emperor. Almost all surnames can be traced back to Yandi, Huangdi or their courtiers. Ethnic minorities who have accepted Chinese culture (such as Xiongnu and Xianbei). ) also claimed to be descendants of the Chinese people, descendants of the Chinese people.
Yelvyan, the minister of Liao Dynasty, called Qidan after the Yellow Emperor in A Record of the Imperial Dynasty. The History of Liao Dynasty, Ji Zan of Taizu, and Preface to the World Declare that Qidan is behind Emperor Yan. In recent years, the descendants of the Khitan discovered in Yunnan have preserved a genealogy of "Shi Dian Chang Luo Fu", which was revised in the Ming Dynasty. There is a seven-character poem in front of it, saying, "Emperor Yan, the ancestor of the Liao Dynasty ...". These Khitans also believe that the Khitans are Miao people in Yan Di.
In the late Qing Dynasty, this concept spread more widely with the construction of nationalism in China. In the late Qing Dynasty, the early revolutionaries who rebelled against the Manchu rule won the support of the Han people with the slogan "descendants of the Chinese people, descendants of the Chinese people", while the radical revolutionaries believed that "descendants of the Chinese people are the only Han people". Moderate reformists believe that "our country is all descendants of the Yellow Emperor". Faced with the invasion and occupation by western powers, people of insight, including ethnic minorities [1], called for breaking ethnic boundaries and reunifying China under the banner of "descendants of the Chinese people". In the face of the crisis of national subjugation and species extinction caused by foreign aggression, the concept of "descendants of the Chinese people, descendants of the Chinese people" has become a symbol of China people's national cohesion with ancestor worship as its basic culture. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the title of "descendants of the Yellow Emperor" was stereotyped as a reference symbol of the Chinese nation's war of resistance against the enemy, and became a banner that called on and inspired Chinese at home and abroad to join in the war of resistance. [2][3] During the Republic of China, "China people are all descendants of the Yellow Emperor" and China people are all descendants of the Yellow Emperor.