Summer person

Japanese: 夏人 - かじん
Summer person

…So what was this kind of ethnic group called before the Han Dynasty? They were called Qin people because they were ruled by the First Emperor of Qin, and that name is still preserved to this day as the name of today's China or Chine. In this way, going back in time, the inhabitants of each of the Xia, Yin, and Zhou dynasties were called Xia people or Yin people after the name of their respective dynasties, and the fact that Han people today call themselves Xia people is also a remnant of the name of the Xia dynasty, just as the first emperor of the Xia dynasty, Yu, was called Xia Hou-shi, or Queen of Xia. In this way, the history of the ethnic group called the Han people is very ancient and diverse. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "summer people" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しからば漢代以前にこの種の民族集団は何と呼ばれていたかといえば,彼らは秦の始皇帝により統治されたため秦人と称され,それが今日のシナすなわちChina,Chineの名称として,いまなおその名がとどめられている。このように,時代をさかのぼってみれば夏・殷・周各王朝ごとに,その住民はそれぞれその王朝名で夏人または殷人などの名で呼ばれ,今日漢人たちがみずからを夏人と称するのも,夏の初代の天子禹が夏后氏すなわち夏の后(きみ)と呼ばれているように,これまた夏王朝名の名残りなのである。このようにしてみると漢民族と称される民族集団のたどってきた歴史の歩みははなはだ古く多彩なものである。…

※「夏人」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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