No such thing as pure Han Chinese
THE majority Chinese ethnic group - Han - may turn out to be a false proposition.
The latest ethnology finding said pure-blood Han people have completely vanished into the racial mixes, People.com.cn reported on Monday.
Han Chinese characteristics couldn't even be traced in DNA tests, the news report said.
"The non-existence of pure-blood Han ethnic people is a result from centuries of mass migrations as well as racial integrations," said Xie Xiaodong, associate professor of Lanzhou University's Life Science Department.
"The Han ethnic group is simply a concept based on certain regions in history, thus lacking definite characterization," added the ethnologist.
Ethnic Han ancestry traces back to the ancient Chinese living in the central plains along the Yellow River in northern China, including Henan province and some areas in southern Shanxi, western Jiangsu and northwest Anhui provinces nowadays.
- China Daily
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