There are 100,000 Han Chinese in Russia, but they are not called Han Chinese, but the name of this ethnic group is changed
China is a multi-ethnic country, the main ethnic group is han and there are fifty-five other ethnic minorities, in which all ethnic groups live peacefully on the land of Shenzhou on an equal footing, and the Chinese government also respects and encourages other ethnic minorities to develop and learn their own culture. Of course, among these ethnic minorities, there are also more unique Ethnic Russians, some of whom now speak Russian and are proficient in Chinese characters, and there are more than 15,000 people in this ethnic group.
To say why there are Russians in China, this also needs to be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty, when Emperor Wenzong of Yuan, after recruiting more than 10,000 Rus' people, called the Semu people, came to serve as his own guard, and later during the Qing Dynasty these people were directly called "Luocha people".
Of course, in addition, in the late eighteenth century, due to the very repressive rule of the Tsar, some Russians fled to the northeast border of China and began to settle there for a long time, and the Qing government also tacitly acknowledged their existence and directly called them naturalized people, until the founding of New China, they were all called Russians.
If there is an ethnic Russian population in China, then are there Han Chinese in Russia? In fact, there are about 280,000 Han Chinese in Russia, most of whom lived directly in Russia after the cession of land in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. So what do Russians call these Han Chinese?
Russia's population is mainly made up of 194 ethnic groups, of which Russians naturally stand in the highest proportion, accounting for about seventy percent of the country's population. Behind them are ukrainians. The Han population in Russia ranks 61st, mainly living in Vladivostok and Boli. Although the Han population is large, they are not called Han in Russia, and generally Russians call them "Chinese" or "Khitan". Everyone can understand the Chinese, and there are also some Han Chinese in Southeast Asian countries who are called Chinese.
It is interesting that Russians call the Khitans. During the Song Dynasty, because the Khitans occupied the north of China and were also very powerful, the Khitans and Russia often traded, so the Russians mistakenly believed that the Central Plains Dynasty at that time was a Khitan and directly retained this title, and from then on called the Han chinese khitans.