145 or 135 BC – 86 BC ) () was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes ( 太史公 taishigong ) of the Han Dynasty.

The Japanese term kanji () for the Chinese characters literally means " Han characters " and is the same written term in the Chinese language to refer to the character writing system hanzi ().

The Three Kingdoms period () was a period in Chinese history, part of an era of disunity called the " Six Dynasties " following immediately the loss of de facto power of the Han Dynasty rulers.

The period between the foundation of the Han Dynasty and Wang Mang's reign is known as the Western Han Dynasty () or Former Han Dynasty () ( 206 BCE – 9 CE ).

The era from his reign until the fall of Han is known as the Eastern Han Dynasty () or the Later Han Dynasty () ( 25 – 220 CE ).

Han van Meegeren () ( 10 October 1889 in Deventer, Overijssel – 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam ), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter and portraitist and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

March of the Volunteers () is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China ( including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region since 1 July 1997, and the Macau Special Administrative Region since 20 December 1999 ), written by the poet and playwright Tian Han with music composed by Nie Er.

Historical Chinese names include Zhang Hai () used in records from the Han Dynasty, and Fei Hai () used during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.

The area where Xiamen now exists was known as Tong ' an () in some Han Dynasty records, though the area was not significantly settled by Han Chinese until several centuries later.

In China, common names for China include Zhonghua (/) and Zhongguo (/), while Han (/) and Tang () are common names given for the Chinese ethnicity.

However, general usage in Taiwan still refer to North Korean as Běihán ( " North Han ") and South Korean as Nánhán ( " South Han ") while use of Cháoxiǎn () is generally limited to ancient Korea.

Nationalism meant the Han Chinese race standing up against Manchu rule and Japanese and Western interference, democracy meant elected rule modeled after Japan's parliament, and people's livelihood or socialism, meant government regulation of the means of production.

Han is also used as a test subject for the carbon freezing chamber meant for Luke, and it is there that Leia finally confesses her love for Han.

However, many critics argue that despite this official view, assimilationist attitudes remain deeply entrenched, and popular views and actual power relationships create a situation in which Chinese nationalism has in practice meant Han dominance of minority areas and peoples and assimilation of those groups.

Business with traders from other Countries also meant contact with other cultures and civilizations, such as those of Japan, Han Chinese, Indian people, and Arab people.

A few years earlier, the King of Loulan had died, and with Xiongnu support, one of his sons, Angui ( 安歸 ) succeeded him, and Angui started a policy of befriending Xiongnu and resisting Han, particularly because Luolan's geographical location meant that it was often ordered by Han to escort its imperial messengers, who were also rude to Luolan officials.

In 1962, Moon and Han founded the Little Angels Children ’ s Folk Ballet of Korea, a girls Korean folk ballet company meant to promote a positive perception of South Korea.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, possession of a Han surname was considered to be a sign of being civilized, in part because adoption of a Han surname meant that that person was now entered into the population registration books and could be taxed.

While the law did not discriminate between races, it affected Han Chinese prisoners in particular, as it meant they would have their queue, a waist-long, braided pigtail, cut off.

Sometimes Su's loyalty to Han is emphasized by the story that during his detainment he married a wife, that he had children by her, but that he chose to return to his homeland, even though it meant it abandoning his wife and children.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

Under the Han Dynasty, China made great advances in many areas of the arts and sciences.

This period was characterized by a gradual decentralization of the state that had existed during the Qin and Han dynasties, and an increase in the power of great families.

Han could also be understood as the Sino-Korean word 韓 " Korean ", so that the name can be read " Korean script " as well as " great script ".

Zhang read many of the great works of history in his day and claimed he had found ten instances where the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145 – 90 BC ) and the Book of Han by Ban Gu ( AD 32 – 92 ) differed from other ancient texts that were available to him.

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

Some say that the Chinese Emperor Wu became interested in developing commercial relationships with the sophisticated urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthian Empire: " The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Ta-Hsia ) and Parthian Empire ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).

Another historian, Shen Yue, pointed out Emperor Wen was said to model his command on the great general Emperor Guangwu of Han, but he lacked the latter's command abilities.

Because the Han Chinese commander Guo Kan fought with the Mongols under Hulegu in the Middle East, Kublai had heard of siege engines of great effectiveness.

The tomb's cross-shaped structure and the burial objects found inside show great similarities as compared to other Han tombs found in South China, which prove that early Chinese civilisation had spread to Hong Kong 2, 000 years ago.

In 318, after suppressing a coup by a powerful minister in the Xiongnu-Han court ( in which the Xiongnu-Han emperor and a large proportion of the aristocracy were massacred ), the Xiongnu prince Liu Yao moved the Xiongnu-Han capital from Pingyang to Chang ' an and renamed the dynasty as Zhao ( Liu Yuan had declared the empire's name Han to create a linkage with Han Dynasty — to which he claimed he was a descendant, through a princess, but Liu Yao felt that it was time to end the linkage with Han and explicitly restore the linkage to the great Xiongnu chanyu Maodun, and therefore decided to change the name of the state.

Jia Yi's essay, admired as a masterpiece of rhetoric and reasoning, was copied into two great Han histories and has had a far-reaching influence on Chinese political thought as a classic illustration of Confucian theory.

Flag of the Republic of China from 1912-1928, the five stripes represents the " five great races " of China: red represents Han Chinese, yellow represents Manchus, blue represents Mongols, white collectively represents both Huis and Uyghurs, and black for Tibetans.

During the greater part of China's first great period of unification, begun with the short-lived Qin Dynasty ( 221 BCE-206 BCE ) and followed by the centuries-long Han Dynasty ( 206 BCE-220 CE ), the shi form of poetry underwent little innovation.

During the Tang period, the ornate, artificial style of prose developed in previous periods was replace by a simple, direct, and forceful prose based on examples from the Hundred Schools ( see above ) and from the Han period, the period in which the great historical works of Sima Tan and Sima Qian were published.

This homogeneity results from the great majority of Han family names having only one character, while the small number of compound surnames is mostly restricted to minority groups.

Han is a native Korean root for " leader " or " great ", as in maripgan (" king ", archaic ), hanabi (" grandfather ", archaic ), and Hanbat (" Great Field ", archaic name for Daejeon ).

The establishment of the Han Dynasty marked a great period in China ’ s history.

An 8th century Chinese fresco at Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in Gansu portrays Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 – 87 BCE ) worshiping statues of a golden man ; " golden men brought in 121 BCE by a great Han general in his campaigns against the nomads ".

Cao Cao ( Wade-Giles: Tsao Tsao ; ; 155 – March 15, 220 ) was a warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during the dynasty's final years.

In 10, Wang sent his ambassadors to Xiongnu to inform Chanyu Zhi that he had become emperor and that Xin had replaced Han, and requested that the great seal of the chanyu, which Han had issued, be exchanged for a new seal issued by Xin.