Racial Origin 人種起源

Racial Origin 人種起源



In spite of much research and conjecture, the origin of the Chinese people remains undetermined. We do not know who they were nor whence they came. Such evidence as there is points to their immigration from elsewhere; the Chinese themselves have a tradition of a Western origin. The first picture we have of their actual history shows us, not a people behaving as if long settled in a land which was their home and that of their forefathers, but an alien race fighting with wild beasts, clearing dense forests, and driving back the aboriginal inhabitants.



儘管大量的研究和猜想，中國人的起源仍然未定。我們不知道他們是誰，也沒有從那裡，他們就來了。這些證據是有指向其他地方的移民;中國人自己有西方血統的傳統。我們有自己的實際歷史的第一張圖片向我們展示了，沒有一個人表現得好像長落戶這是他們家的土地，他們的祖先，但野獸的外來種族的戰鬥，清除茂密的​​森林，返回家鄉土著居民。



Setting aside several theories (including the one that the Chinese are autochthonous and their civilization indigenous) now regarded by the best authorities as untenable, the researches of sinologists seem to indicate an origin 
(1) in early Akkadia; or 

(2) in Khotan, the Tarim valley (generally what is now known as Eastern Turkestan), or the K’un-lun Mountains (concerning which more presently).

The second hypothesis may relate only to a sojourn of longer or shorter duration on the way from Akkadia to the ultimate settlement in China, especially since the Khotan civilization has been shown to have been imported from the Punjab in the third century B.C. The fact that serious mistakes have been made regarding the identifications of early Chinese rulers with Babylonian kings, and of the Chinese po-hsing (Cantonese bak-sing) ‘people’ with the Bak Sing or Bak tribes, does not exclude the possibility of an Akkadian origin. But in either case the immigration into China was probably gradual, and may have taken the route from Western or Central Asia direct to the banks of the Yellow River, or may possibly have followed that to the south-east through Burma and then to the north-east through what is now China—the settlement of the latter country having thus spread from south-west to north-east, or in a north-easterly direction along the Yangtzŭ River, and so north, instead of, as is generally supposed, from north to south.



撇開一些理論（包括一個中國人是原地和他們的文明土著）現在被認為由最好當局站不住腳，漢學家的研究似乎表明在
（1）早期Akkadia原點;
 （2）在于闐，塔里木河流域（一般是什麼現在被稱為東土耳其斯坦），或焜倫山（關於這更表現）。


第二個假設可能只涉及到從Akkadia的方式在中國的最終的較長或持續時間較短的定居，特別是因為于闐文明已被證明在公元前三世紀是已經引進來自旁遮普。已成為嚴重失誤關於中國早期的統治者與巴比倫國王的標識，中國PO興中（粵語李明博星）“人”與樸星或樸部落的事實，不排除的可能性阿卡血統。但是，在這兩種情況下的移民進入中國可能是漸增的，可能採取西方或中亞路線並取道由黃河河畔，或可能已按照向南，向東經過緬甸，然後到東北是通過所謂現今的中國，在後一個國家的解決有這樣從西南到東北部，或在沿Yangtzŭ河東北方向，因此北，因為人們通常認為，從北到南。



Title: Myths and Legends of China

Author: E. T. C. Werner