中国人中绝大多数的族群都认同自己是汉人,汉人的名称从汉朝而来,因此汉朝对中国的意义便不只是一个政治上的朝代,而是将各种不同来源、背景的中国人融铸成一个大家共有的身份认同。为什么别的朝代不能做到这一点,以至于两千多年来中国人还一直称自己为汉人?这在于,汉人不是一个族群的意义,而是一种文化群的意义。汉人和欧洲族群的概念是相当不一样的,犹太人、日耳曼人、拉丁人等都以族群、种 The vast majority of Chinese people agree that they are Han Chinese. Han names come from the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the significance of the Han Dynasty to China is not merely a political dynasty. Instead, it uses different sources and backgrounds of China People cast into a common identity. Why can not other dynasties do this so that the Chinese have always claimed to be Han Chinese for more than two thousand years? This is because the Han people are not the meanings of one ethnic group but the meanings of a cultural group. Han and European ethnic concept is quite different, Jews, Germans, Latin, etc. all ethnic groups, species