汉族是中国的主体民族。在政治、军事、哲学、文学、史学、艺术，自然科学领域中，汉族都创造了许多辉煌的业绩。汉族自古对各种宗教信仰采取兼容并蓄的态度，部分人信奉佛教、道教以及基督教新教、天主教等。尊崇孔子和儒家思想。天命崇拜和祖先崇拜是汉族宗教主要传统观念。

The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that of China. Han Chinese trace their ancestry back to the Huaxia ( 華夏), people who lived along the Yellow River in northern China. The name “Han” comes from Han Dynasty (漢朝, which ruled over a unified China from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.. Over the centuries the Han …