Han Chinese
Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the world.
Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China and about 19 percent of the entire global human population. There is substantial genetic, linguistic, cultural and social diversity between the various subgroups of the Han, mainly due to thousands of years of immigration and assimilation of various regional ethnicities and tribes within China. The Han Chinese are a subset of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu). An alternate name that many Chinese peoples use to refer to themselves is "Descendants of the Dragon" . Many Han and other Chinese also call themselves "Descendants of the Yan Di (Yan Emperor) and Huang Di (Yellow Emperor)"
In the English language, the Hans are often (and in the view of many Chinese incorrectly) referred to as simply "Chinese". Whether or not the use of the term Chinese correctly or incorrectly refers only to Han Chinese often is the subject of heated debate, since the restriction of the term Chinese to Han Chinese can be viewed as calling into question the legitimacy of Chinese rule over non-Han areas. However, it is important to note that the specific term "Chinese" is largely a modern development. It was constructed in the 19th century to define the five major ethnic groups of Hans, Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans and Hui Muslims, which reflected the reality of the Qing dynasty and subsequently carried over to the Republic of China. Prior to the modern era, any ethnic identity was mostly regional and at best categorized in terms of Hans, Manchus, Mongols, Khitans, Xianbeis, etc. Thus, the common usage of defining Chinese as just ethnic Hans in English is both literally and historically incorrect.
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