The Forgotten People
The African Origins of China
By: Lauren K. Clark
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China is one of the few countries which preserved traditional and ancient aspects of their culture. From the Great Wall of China to other impressive types of architecture, China has a history of advanced culture and civilization.Â
However, there are missing aspects of the Chinese history that has not been acknowledged. Prior to the emergence of the Mongoloid people, China was dominated by people of the African continent. These people arrived to China from West Africa, through the great civilizations in North Africa known as Khem and Kush.Â
To prove that the ancestors of the current Chinese population were of African origin, three areas of study will be focused on. The first area of study will be based on scientific evidence and reports of various recent genetic experiments. This particular aspect is a collection of information from various scientists and researchers, who come from areas all over the world. This purpose of having a diverse group of experiments will eradicate any evidence of bias.Â
The second area of study focuses on the different kingdoms that were ruled by African people during ancient China. These findings are based on the research of archaeologists and anthropologists who have found various cultural artifacts, and skeletal evidence such as human skills, to prove the early existence of African people in China.
The final area of study deals with linguistics evidence, cultural innovations, and various medicinal practices extant in China but which have origins within African culture.
Recent scientific studies have uncovered strong evidence that the first East Asians, particularly in the region that is now known as China, were of African descent.
In an article posted by the AAAS Science Magazine, entitled “African Origin of Modern Humans in East Asia: A Tale of 12,000 Y Chromosomes, 23 scientists (with 13 of them being of Asian descent) tested “the hypothesis of modern human origin in East Asia. Â
The participating geneticists studied the genes of 12,127 East Asian male individuals from 163 different segment of the East Asian population. The male Y chromosome was utilized to “type†for three different Y chromosome biallelic markers. The three identified markers were the YAP, M89, and M130. The 12,127 male individuals had a mutation “at one of these three sites†of the Y chromosome genetic material or DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).Â
However another mutation known as M168T is the ascendant of the three identified East Asian male genetic markers. This particular mutation, the M168T arose in the African continent approximately 35,000 to 89,000 years prior to this current date. The M168T, overtime, diverged into the three mutations that were present in the Y chromosome biallelic markers in the male Asian participants.
This finding indicates that the YAP+, M89T, and M130T East Asian mutations originated from the M168T mutation that arose in Africa. This categorically proves that it is not genetically possible for the current East Asian population to have phenotypically contributed to the original (or first) inhabitants of East Asia.Â
A second experiment that was published by the Los Angeles Times of September 29, 1998 was undertaken by the Chinese Human Genome Diversity Project which is comprised of “seven major research groups in the People’s Republic of China, and the Human Genetics Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The finances of this project were provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
The Chinese Human Genome Project utilized the DNA of China’s 28 identified ethnic groups. The selection of these certain groups was very strategic in that these groups account for over 90% of China’s overall population-thus creating a widely diverse representative group of participants.Â
In order to analyze and study the genetic origins of this large population, the scientists in this study relied on a set of genetic markers called microsatellites. The chemical composition of these markers are such “That allows scientists to use them as signposts to mark how population diverged or merged over time, reconstructing their evolutionary journey through time and across the continents to their contemporary abodes.â€Â
The researchers identified 30 microsatellites markers within the genetic material across the 28 selected ethnic groups in China. The pattern of the microsatellite markers were then used to compare patterns of 11 non-Chinese groups around the world.Â
The result of the study indicated that the northern and southern Chinese combine into “distinct regional genetic populations†and that both have inherited traits that all come from one original ancestor.
Based on the study, geneticist concluded that all of the different groups within China descend from a common ancestor that “migrated†from the south into China. The region of the south reference appears strongly to have been Africa. According to the researchers “it is now probably safe to conclude that modern humans originating in African constitute that majority of the current gene pool in East Asia.â€
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One final study was done by a genetic research team of Fudan University in Shanghai, China that was led by Dr. Jin Lin. The purpose of this research was to verify whether the Chinese people originated from early humans that came from East Africa or from the “Peking Man†of northern China. The theory of the “Peking Man†was a speculative racist theory which tried to argue that the European and Asian humans evolved from different specie of primates than the Africans.
Based on research this study of more than 100,000 DNA samples from people all over the world, Dr. Jin concluded that all human beings originated from a common, “single origin, not multiple origins as some experts believe.†That origin is Africa and that original humanity is the Black African. These African individuals are believed to have settled in China approximately 100,000 years ago. Â
References
“African Origin of Modern Humans In East Asia: A Tale of 12,000 Y Chromosomes.†Science AAAS Magazine. Vol. 292. No.5519.  May 11, 2001. pgs. 1151-1153
Holts, Robert Lee. “Chinese Roots Lie in Africa, Research Says.†Los Angeles Times. Times Mirror Company. September 29, 1998.
 “Chinese come from Africa, just like the rest of us.†The Taipei Times. CNA Hong Kong. May 12, 2005. 1999-2005
This is very interesting. It does, however, beg the question of how and when our skin color changed from black to white or yellow. Any ideas?
China and Africa .. what an interesting mix? To be honest I feel that color is exactly that…color and nothing more.
I was impressed at this technology available. If the influence of Africa extended to China, did these civilizations evolve into Chinese civilizations or were they destroyed and rebuilt by Asians? Either way it is hard to imagine races changing over time as Heinzel points out.
this was insterting, especial to see more facts of the africa’s have a past that is not only that of slavery and be taking over by other nations. to see the fact that they actual controled a part of the world.
i find this very insterting to see how the tech. of the world is become modern. to the fact that we are able to tell what race the skills of these people are.
This is a really significant discovery that is hopefully a step in eliminating racism. People should start realizing that everyone has similarities now that there is genetic evidence to prove it.
Modern humans originating in African constitute the majority of the current gene pool in East Asia – It’s pretty surprising to read about something like this, but I think this is information that everyone should know about.
Like the article about Thomas Jefferson having African heritage, this article truly amazes me. The advanced technology we have today is unbelieveable. Reading an article like this really is interesting to know that there used to be Africans living in China.
Wow, very interesting!! I think that science is very important because without it we probably wouldn’t be able to determine this kind of history. I had no idea that there were African people living in China.
The fact that african people living in china was rather interesting and to my knowledge science is rather needed in life
I have always thought about my whole life how people maintain different colors and differen complexions even different facial features. It amazes me how we can travel in to different parts of the region and find different people but what strikes me the most is if people migrated in many parts of the world,why s there still different colors in particular parts of the world?
It was pretty cool about the genetics project with DNA and the samples they used
This article was particular intriguing because it focused on the fact that scientific technology has extreme pull in identifying the common origin of people. It makes me believe that there is nothing in this current society that can be left unknown.
Asian should embrace their African roots, perhaps there can be huge gains in acknowledging these important origin facts for our society as a whole.
I once read somewhere that the humans orginated in Africa but didn’t know that there was actual evidence of this. Who would ever have thought that people in East Asia are descendants of Africans.
This article was particular intriguing because it focused on the fact that scientific technology has extreme pull in identifying the common origin of people. It makes me believe that there is nothing in this current society that can be left unknown.
Maybe there can be huge gains in acknowledging these important origin facts for our society as a whole.
Has skin color changed over time? People that occupied the same continent are able to change and adapt to their enviroment.
I have no doubt that the human race originated from Africa but i still till this day can’t figure out or rather yet understand how our skin color and phyiscal feature, are soo different from one another. But in this article, what i found interesting is that all of the different groups within China descend from a common ancestor that “migrated†from the south into China.
Although I agree that most homo sapiens can traced back to an African EVE, we cannot entirely refute the claims that homo sapiens did not replace homo erectus, in fact there is a very strong challenge to this assumption by looking at reference dates of homo sapiens and homo erectus because the migratory pattern for homo sapiens is dated around 200 000 years earlier that homo erectus which suggest that homo sapiens and homo erectus evolved separately… however I hope that more evidence can be found to disclaim this suggestion as I believe having a single mother which we can trace back to Africa would be a better assumption as this would prove that we are all in fact the same.
I find this gradifying to see that we come from Africa and that we have adapted to other people that beggs my question what is a race? if we all come from one orgin wouldn’t that make all but those from Africa all Cultures instead of Races of people? even if we all retain diffrent features and cultures just because my views or I have changed from that of my mother doesn’t mean she isn’t my mother anymore. Furthermore is to say black and white mix or whites and Blacks mixed with other they all would have a common ancestor so infact would they wouldn’t be white or Black but envolved into there own culture versus race? It seems that way wich mean that racism is nothing more than a way of seperation from one group to the other? I just wish that people can see you can have a common orgin and be of a diffrent culture background.
To answer some questions about the color there are TWO things I know that can change a color 1 is meanin which dictates skin color the less you body has the lighter you will be that will go with color if you really look asain color are a off white more than a yellow at least to me and look @ some Alkebulanians (africans) in Africa that have not mixed with any other race of people the females can give give birth to white/light (elbino) babies, even babies with tight eyes like Asians. 2nd climate is everything people think it isn’t but it is for example I am brown skinned in the summer I retreat to a darker complection brown to protect my skin from the deteriation of I think vitamin B3 that is in the human body that causes skin cancer in the winter I turn lighter brown that reason I have no idea but I see that there is alot of africans in africa and Ppl of a darker complection no matter the ethnic group skin does the samething. So you can see if I was born light and I moved to a cold climate I will retain my color lighter than normal so if African are having babies that are light and they mix with light over years u r retaining a lighter complection like elbino then u add a cold climate because of migration and the ice age of europe and migration of the Africans make no mistake you can be white it’s called evolution. Even in slavery there were African and especial when they were brought here in slave trade that were so light they passed for white to avoid being persacuted by the whites, furthermore the west had africans and Native americans already inhabiting the now called U.S before the Europeans came and invaded. The are documents in Africa showing boats made before the Europeans were even known and the Fact that Africa Existed millions of years befor anyother country is quite obvious evolution played a big part including mixing wich is the reason we have so many variations of color it’s all about meanin instresting fact that black and white people are diffrent by 1% in color that’s why whites can have black babies not because they are superior it’s quite the opoposite it’s because the meanin and the y cromosone witch is a black gene that is a dormant gene that if is released in a offspring the offspring will be dark colored don’t believe research a white couple in south africa that had a dark baby and you will see the Y cromasone dominated all other genes in determaning the color. We should all treat eachother by the way they trat u notby color there is shitty people in every once but it doesn’tmake up the race.
I find this gradifying to see that we come from Africa and that we have adapted to other people that beggs my question what is a race? if we all come from one orgin wouldn’t that make all but those from Africa all Cultures instead of Races of people? even if we all retain diffrent features and cultures just because my views or I have changed from that of my mother doesn’t mean she isn’t my mother anymore. Furthermore is to say black and white mix or whites and Blacks mixed with others they all would have a common ancestor so infact would they wouldn’t be white or Black but envolved into there own culture versus race? It seems that way which means that racism is nothing more than a way of seperation from one group to the other? I just wish that people can see you can have a common orgin and be of a diffrent culture background.
To answer some questions about the color there are TWO things I know that can change a color 1 is meanin which dictates skin color the less you body has the lighter you will be that will go with color if you really look asain color they are a off white more than a yellow to me the same color u can get when u mix whites and brown skined blacks together at least to me, and look @ some Alkebulanians (africans) in Africa that have not mixed with any other race of people the females can give give birth to white/light (elbino) babies, even babies with tight eyes like Asians. 2nd climate is everything people think it isn’t but it is for example I am brown skinned in the summer I retreat to a darker complextion brown to protect my skin from the deteriation of I think vitamin B3 that is in the human body that causes skin cancer in the winter I turn lighter brown that reason I have no idea but I see that there is alot of africans in africa and Ppl of a darker complection no matter the ethnic group skin does the samething. So you can see if I was born light and I moved to a cold climate I will retain my color lighter than normal so if African are having babies that are light and they mix with light over years u r retaining a lighter complection like elbino then u add a cold climate because of migration and the ice age of europe and migration of the Africans make no mistake you can be white it’s called evolution. Even in slavery there were African and especial when they were brought here in slave trade that were so light they passed for white to avoid being persacuted by the whites, furthermore the west had africans and Native americans already inhabiting the now called U.S before the Europeans came and invaded. The are documents in Africa showing boats made before the Europeans were even known and the Fact that Africa Existed millions of years befor anyother country is quite obvious evolution played a big part including mixing wich is the reason we have so many variations of color it’s all about meanin instresting fact that black and white people are diffrent by 1% in color that’s why whites can have black babies not because they are superior it’s quite the opposite it’s because the meanin and the y cromosone witch is a black gene that is a dormant gene that if is released in a offspring the offspring will be dark colored don’t believe research a white couple in south africa that had a dark baby and you will see the Y cromasone dominated all other genes in determaning the color. We should all treat each other by the way they treat you not by color there is shitty people in every group of people but it doesn’t make up the race as a whole.
The Afrocentric author of this piece of garbage must be either delirious or running a high fever when he or she penned it. Not a single Chinese person would degrade himself by coming to terms with such absurdity.
Stewart Lin
You sound like a self hating ignoramus venting polluted thoughts based on a completely wicked indoctrination. But just to humour you, below are two links, one from a Taiwanese newspaper and the other from famous Chinese scientist Prof. Jin Li attesting to the veracity of the information that you just read…which appears to be waaay over your petty comprehension.
Links
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-black-african-foundation-of-china-honouring-the-aboriginal-black-people-of-china/
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/ancient-black-chinese-from-east-africa-by-prof-jin-li-2/
Ok let’s stop the shit and get to a real dialog! Even though I have nigger blood and Indian blood and West and Central Asian blood, I also have “pink blood”. Altough though I have some uncles who were identified as niggers, I look more like a “pink arse” but I’m really multi-racial. Does it mean I’m not a nigger or an indian or a spic or a whitie? Sorry, I’m all of the above. I thought the message was supposed to be we are all one and Africa was our home and Jah is the one loving God, no matter how we might call him. I’m sorry, I must be all fucked up then in my view of the true first Christianity of H.I.M. I doubut my words are from a “cannabis haze”. I do not take any drugs not even the “cahlice”.
Rasman
The word NIGGER should be redefined to include “MOST people of the world” for we all probably have a trace of HLA Antigen blood(Negroid) that traces back some thousands of years before 9000 B.C.
The real dialogue is what does it take for us to to accept the fact that we all are of Noah’s Negro blood? Once we come to that realizatiion, we can act as sisters and brothers, love each other, and treat each other right!
Civilization evolved in the ares surrounding Ethiopia/Somalia. Migrations began in the Eastern Equator from East Africa. People settled in Yemen, Oman, Southern India, Burma,China, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Paupau Mew Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands and the little islands in between. The second migration from Ethiopia passed through the Saudia Arabian region then, across the Nile, up North Africa(Mali)into Europe and down into(Egypt)on westward across Africa to the Americas, and so on… This process took thousands and years and a lot of intermarrying along the way.
By the way Stewart, the Black Chinese in South African have petitioned the government to recognize them as such. It was just over 60,000 years ago that the first MODERN day Chinaman arrived in China! Prior to then it was the Negro/Black who occupied the land.
By the way, there is a Japanese proverb that says “For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of Black blood.” Another goes like this, “Half the blood in one’s vein must be Black to make a good Samurai.”
Ref: http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub95.htm
No Blacks in China! Then this will blow you away…what about Blacks in Mexico. Just go into your internet search engine and type in the keyword “OLMECS”…
I’m in no way, shape or form involved in any niggerdom
Believe this that all people came from one source. All people came from one blood. The bible tells us this. There is not one continent that black people have not lived on. Blacks where the first people and they gave a huge jump to today’s so called civilized world. I respect all people black, white, yellow,and brown don’t get me wrong by what I am trying to say. I am taking this time because I LOVE YOU ALL and you need to know what is true and what is a lie. Nearly the whole world looks down on black people as being subhuman, this is a fact that I hate because it has been the main reason that blacks condition has been very slow to change in the last few hundred years. Blacks have not always been a poor and pitiful people. As humanity has evolved others have been able to contribute to knowledge that was already established. As I was reading the artical the word nigger appeared. This is a word use intentionally to destory black minds. I want the haters to know that GOD sees everything and that he has a plan greater than us all. When we can sat down as a family in the Earth because that is what we are to GOD. He will show his face to us all and there will be no problem with those who hate. We will have the complete pieces to the puzzle like the artical you read. Right now we can only find the bit and pieces to the puzzle GOD will make it whole. The greatest commandment is to love, Love is my religion.
You know agroup of people who are usually left out when people talk about races? Melanesians. Well check this,
In the not so distant past, Scientists would say that they came from asia and they leave it as that. This is how they differentiate them from Africans on the continent of Africa. What they dont tell you most of the time was that they really came from Africa and they passed through Asia.
Now why is that???? I’ll tell you why, because they wanted to say that Europeans discovered places like Australia like captain cook, the same applies for America, a few decades ago they wouldn’t teach that stuff in a school in a westernised (white) country. because that would mean the the blacks circumnavigated the world thousands of years before the Europeans who where supposed to be superior. It didnt make sense. Some rasists would even call dark skinned brothers “animals” to prove they were the first humans to discover the place……..I mean, how stupid can you get. It’s funny how far we all have come since those crazy days.
However people need to start living in harmony with the planet just like many indegenous people have been around the world.
Instead western society is forcing their way of life onto these people, which only results in poverty, purely because it is unsustainable.
Natural Selection and the Origin of Species from Charles Darwin is truly remarkable. Our world keeps getting smaller and smaller. Human are continue to evolve, so it’s hard to imagine what future mutation might be.
http://yeyeolade.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/all-races-come-from-the-black-race/