Hakka -Original Chinese?

[Guest HengYu]

We have a website to study any and all aspects of Hakka culture, including origins and misrepresentations - all are welsome;

http://hakkadiaspora.proboards29.com/index.cgi

Best Wishes

Heng Yu

PS: This is an excellent site and I will add a link on our site, to it.

[Quest]

What I find most fascinating about that section of Prof. Clyde Kiang’s book is his hypothesis of how the mainstream “Chinese” came to call themselves “Han”. According to Kiang:

The word ‘han’ comes from the turkic word ‘khan’ or its linguistic cousin: the tungustic (eastern asiatic turkic peoples) word ‘hun’.

The Han Dynasty was founded by a Han/Hun Emperor named Lui and his subjects used to call themselves the Khan/Han’s people which over time became shortened to the Han people. This presents an interesting logical extension: although all the people who were ruled by the Han Emperor were Han’s people, they were not actually han/hun themselves. They were han/hun subjects or who later came to call themselves Han people.

Kiang reckons that the modern day Hakka are descendants of the tungustic huns, and if this is true, it verifies the hakka belief that they were the ‘original han/hun’ people or that they are the ‘real’ han people but yet are not the same as the majority ‘chinese’.

amusing

So, 汉 became 匈奴

and 唐 became 突厥

[Chongtak]

amusing

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Haha! Funny, I guess this is the same writer as Da Vinci code