The Qin Dynasty was the first unified country in China. Why are descendants called Han people instead of Qin people?

As a great empire that unified China, although the time was only 15 years, it had a great influence on the whole country. During the Han Dynasty, the northern and western nationalities also called the Han people Qin people, while the Han people called themselves Huaxia people.

In 22 1 BC, Qin Shihuang annexed six countries, and in the "great unification", the Chinese nation also moved from decentralization to unity. After Qin Shihuang established the Qin Dynasty, he took a series of measures to unify and stabilize the Chinese nation, such as implementing the county system, stipulating that "books should be written in the same language", unifying currency and weights and measures, "cars on the same track" and "walking along the same road", and building the Great Wall.

For the first time in China's history, a unified autocratic and centralized feudal country was established. Under the condition of national unity, the Han nationality has formed a unified nation.

After the reunification of the Qin Dynasty, the Chinese family name was still used. People from Shandong (east of Lushan Mountain) who originally belonged to six countries were all "leaders of Guizhou" in the Qin Dynasty. Although the state of Qin was short-lived, the peoples from the Western Regions (including present-day Xinjiang) and the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty were still called Qin people in the Central Plains. The Han Dynasty lasted more than 400 years from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, which provided historical conditions for the name of the Han Dynasty and the name of the Chinese nation. In addition, the Han Dynasty was a powerful country. In foreign exchanges, other nationalities call the army of the Han Dynasty "Han soldiers", the envoys of the Han Dynasty "Han envoys" and the people of the Han Dynasty "Han people". So the Han Dynasty conquered the Western Regions, Xiongnu, Pingxi Qiang, Korea, Southwest Yi, Fujian and Guangdong.

In all kinds of communication activities with neighboring ethnic minorities, the name of the Han Dynasty was called the name of the Chinese nation by other ethnic groups. In a word, the name of the Han nationality has been called since the Han Dynasty. After the word "nation" was introduced into China in modern times, "Han" replaced "Han" as the official name of this nation.