提 要：黄帝是汉民族对祖先的共同记忆，龙也不是汉民族的图腾。传说中的华夏、东夷、苗蛮三大族团融合成为先秦时代的华夏族，夏人、商人、周人都是华夏族的一员。经过春秋战国时期的融合，华夏族与蛮夷戎狄在秦汉帝国建立后迅速融合成为一个人口众多、文化一致的汉民族。民族是文化共同体，而不是血缘共同体。汉民族在发展过程中不断地融入其他的部族、民族，所以今天汉族的体质特征包涵了蒙古人种的东亚、北亚、南亚三个亚种。生活在中国大地上的汉民族与其他民族是血脉相连的，他们共同构成了一个庞大的族群——中华民族。国家是社会的组织形式，文化是民族的生存方式。

关键词：华夏 汉族 形成

Title: On the Formation of the Han Nationality

Author:Ye Wenxian, Professor, College of Humanities, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215009, China.

Abstract:The Yellow Emperor is the symbolic ancestor in the shared memory of the Chinese Han people, while dragon is actually not the totem of the Han people. The legendary three largest ethnic groups of ancient China integrated into theHuaxiapeople in pre-Qin period. Xia People, Shang People, and Zhou People were within the scope of this ethnic group. By the Han dynasty,Huaxiaand its surrounding ethnic groups rapidly amalgamated together as the Han people. An ethnic group is a human community based on culture, not kinship. Because of such a profound amalgamation process, the physical characteristics of the present Han people contain the eastern, northern and southern Asiatic subspecies of the Mongolian race. The Han people and the other ethnic groups in China are connected by kinship and they together form up a large multi-ethnic nation, the Chinese. Nation is the form of organization of a society, while culture is the mode of existence of an ethnic group.

Key words: Huaxia Han people Formation