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The First Chinese
By Dr. Clyde WintersEdited by Ogu-Eji-Ofo-AnnuIt can be reasonably assumed that the first inhabitants of the chinese mainland were Black Brown Africansfrom East, West and Central regions of Africa given that the earliest human skeletal remains in China are of“Negro” (or
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a psuedo-scientific term commonly used today) people. The next oldest skeletal
type after the period of predominance of the African immigrants were the Classical Mongoloids orAustronesian speakers.Archaeological research makes it clear that “Negroids” (read: Central African skeletal types) were verycommon to ancient China. F. Weidenreich in Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. Peiping 13, (1938-30) noted that the one ofthe earliest skulls from north China found in the Upper Cave of Chou-k’ou-tien, was of a Oceanic Negroid/ Melanesoid ” (p.163). This is the so-called Peking Man. This would place people in China during theMesolithic looking like African/Negro people , not native American.These Blacks were the dominant group in South China. Kwang-chih Chang, writing in the 4th edition ofArchaeology of ancient China (1986) wrote that:” by the beginning of the Recent (Holocene) period thepopulation in North China and that in the southwest and in Indochina had become sufficiently differentiatedto be designated as Mongoloid and OCEANIC NEGROID races respectively
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.”(p.64). By the UpperPleistocene the Negroid type was typified by the Liu-chiang skulls from Yunnan (Chang, 1986, p.69).Negroid skeletons dating to the early periods of Southern Chinese history have been found in Shangdong,Jiantung, Sichuan, Yunnan, Pearl River delta and Jiangxi especially at the initial sites of Chingliengang(Ch’ing-lien-kang) and Mazhiabang (Ma chia-pang) phases (see: K.C. Chang, The archaeology of ancientChina, (Yale University Press:New Haven,1977) p.76) . The Chingliengang culture is often referred to as theTa-wen-k’ou (Dawenkou) culture of North China. The presence of Negroid skeletal remains at Dawenkousites make it clear that Negroes spread out from the North to South China. The Dawenkou culture predatesthe Lung-shan culture which is associated with the Xia civilization.Many researchers believe that the Yi of Southern China were the ancestors of the Austronesian, Polynesianand Melanesian people.In the Chinese literature the Blacks were called li-min, Kunlung, Ch’iang (Qiang), Yi and Yueh. The foundersof the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasties were blacks. These blacks were called Yueh and Qiang. Themodern Chinese are descendants of the Zhou. The second Shang Dynasty (situated at Anyang) wasfounded by the Yin. As a result this dynasty is called Shang-Yin.
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