“炎黄子孙”是海内外华人引以为荣的自我称谓。这个词的真正出现与广泛使用是在清朝末年,但其雏形“黄炎之后”、“炎黄苗裔”、“黄帝子孙”等早在战国秦汉时期就有了,这些都是“炎黄子孙”称谓在不同时代、不同语境下的不同表现形态。炎黄时代没有文字, “Chinese descendants ” is proud of the Chinese self at home and abroad title. The real appearance and widespread use of this term was in the late Qing Dynasty, but its prototype was “Huangyan”, “Yanhuang Miao”, “Yellow Emperor” and so on, as early as the Warring States and Qin and Han dynasties “Yan Huang descendants ” appellation in different times, different contexts of different manifestations. Yanhuang no text,