Notes

Eclera, Judea L.
C3G/313- Foreign Language

Give the different names of China with corresponding:
a.) Pinyin Names.
b.) Character.
c.) Meaning or history of the names.

1.Huaxia
Chinese nation ( 华夏; 華夏; pinyin: huáxià) in Mandarin.
It came from the self-awareness of a common cultural ancestry by the various confederations of pre-Qin ethnic ancestors of Han people. In the original sense, Huaxia refers to a confederation of tribes living along the Yellow River who were the ancestors of what later became the Han ethnic group in China.

2. Tianxia
Under Heaven ( 天下 pinyin: Tiānxià) in Mandarin.
Chinese term for a historical Chinese cultural concept that denoted either the entire geographical world or the metaphysical realm of mortals, and later became associated with political sovereignty. In ancient China and imperial China, tianxia denoted the lands, space, and area divinely appointed to the Chinese sovereign by universal and well-defined principles of order.

3. Jiuzhou
Nine provinces (九州;pinyin: jiǔ zhōu) in Mandarin.
Ancient Chinese histories to refer to territorial divisions or islands during the Xia and Shang dynasties and has now come to symbolically represent China. "Province" is the word used to translate zhou (州) – since before the Tang dynasty.

4.Shenzhou
Divine Land (神州 pinyin: Shénzhōu) in Mandarin.
The Chinese crewed spacecraft program was relaunched in 1992 with Project 921. The Phase One spacecraft followed the general layout of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with three modules that could separate for reentry. China signed a deal with Russia in 1995 for the transfer of Soyuz technology, including life support and docking systems.

5. Sihai
Four Seas (四海 pinyin: sìhǎi) in Mandarin.
Four Seas is sometimes used to refer to the world, or simply China, which is perceived as the civilized world. It came from the ancient notion that the world is flat and surrounded by sea.

6.Han
The name Han (汉; 漢; pinyin: Hàn) in Mandarin.
Presided over China's first "golden age". The Han dynasty collapsed in 220 and was followed by a long period of disorder, including Three Kingdoms, Sixteen Kingdoms, and Southern and Northern dynasties periods.

7. Zhonghua
Chinese Nation ( 华夏; 華夏; pinyin: Zhōnghuá) in Mandarin.
Originally, it was called a "culturally rich Henan," which is another name for the part of China south of the Yellow River. It is a province in the nation's center and a component of the People's Republic of China.

8. Zhongguo
Central State (中國/中国 pinyin: zhongquó) in Mandarin.
The emperor of China was originally seen by the Chinese as the center of the entire world, with concentric rings extending from the center of culture to the boundaries of barbarism. The origins of this word date back to the Zhou era.