Han Chinese, long-held as the country's ethnic majority, may
turn out to be a false proposition as a latest ethnology finding
said its pure-blood people completely vanished into the racial
mixes, People.com.cn reported Monday. Han Chinese
characteristics couldn't even be traced in DNA tests, the news
report said. "The non-existence of pure-blood Han ethnic people
resulted from centuries of mass migrations as well as racial
integrations," said ethnologist Xie Xiaodong, associate
professor with Lanzhou University's Life Science Department.
"Han ethnic group is simply a concept based in certain regions
in history, thus lacking definite characterization," Xie added.
Ethnic Han ancestry traces back to the ancient Chinese living in
the central plains along the Yellow River in northern China,
including Henan province and some areas in southern Shanxi,
western Jiangsu and northwest Anhui provinces nowadays.