The First Chinese
By Dr. Clyde Winters
Edited by Ogu-Eji-Ofo-Annu
It can be reasonably assumed that the first inhabitants of the chinese mainland were Black Brown Africans from East, West and Central regions of Africa given that the earliest human skeletal remains in China are of “Negro” (or “Negritos†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 or Austronesian speakers.
Archaeological research makes it clear that “Negroids” (read: Central African skeletal types) were very common to ancient China. F. Weidenreich in Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. Peiping 13, (1938-30) noted that the one of the 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 the Mesolithic 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 of Archaeology of ancient China (1986) wrote that:” by the beginning of the Recent (Holocene) period the population in North China and that in the southwest and in Indochina had become sufficiently differentiated to be designated as Mongoloid and OCEANIC NEGROID races respectively….”(p.64). By the Upper Pleistocene 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 ancient China, (Yale University Press:New Haven,1977) p.76) . The Chingliengang culture is often referred to as the Ta-wen-k’ou (Dawenkou) culture of North China. The presence of Negroid skeletal remains at Dawenkou sites make it clear that Negroes spread out from the North to South China. The Dawenkou culture predates the 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, Polynesian and Melanesian people.
In the Chinese literature the Blacks were called li-min, Kunlung, Ch’iang (Qiang), Yi and Yueh. The founders of the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasties were blacks. These blacks were called Yueh and Qiang. The modern Chinese are descendants of the Zhou. The second Shang Dynasty (situated at Anyang) was founded by the Yin. As a result this dynasty is called Shang-Yin.
The Yin or Classical/Oceanic Mongoloid type is associated with the Austronesian speakers ( Kwang-chih Chang, “Prehistoric and early historic culture horizons and traditions in South China”, Current Anthropology, 5 (1964) pp.359-375 :375). Djehuti your Austronesian or Oceanic ancestors were referred to in the Chinese literature as Yin, Feng, Yen, Zhiu Yi and Lun Yi.
It is not clear that contemporary European and Chinese people are descendants of the original Black population which lived in Europe and Asia; neither is it clear that the Chinese are descendants of the Austronesian speaking people.
Textual evidence and the skeletal record seem to indicate that contemporary Chinese and European people come out of nowhere after 1500 BC, the European Sea People came from the North and attacked Egypt, and the Chinese (Hua) people came from the North and ran the Black Qiang and Yueh tribes, along with the Austronesian Yin (classical mongoloid or Austronesian speakers) off the Chinese mainland back into Southeast Asia or on to the Pacific Islands.
dick scott wrote: “kemmit is only place the greeks could have got all there learning quite simply because ancient kemmit pre dates them! what ancient kemmit got there wisdom and know from the greeks?”
negro logic at it’s finest!
so greeks/caucasians “stole” all their wisdom/culture/civilization from the negroid? so what happend to the negroid? stealing knowledge is not like stealing a car from someone, if this myth were true, why did the negroid not continue advancing like the caucasians? you do not “lose” knowledge, it cannot be “stolen” it is inate. If this negro myth were even partially true, negroid africa, with it’s 100,000 year headstart should be the center of modern human civilization, instead, negroid africa is the most primative, living as they did 50,000 years ago. are there any caucasian tribes running around naked, living in dung and straw huts and eating termites?.
The fact is, the negroid brought down the egyptian civilization.
egyptions are from the caucasian lineage, they used the negroid as slaves, the negroid then overwhelmed the egyptians, and it was all down hill from there.
you can see the same pattern repeated in the usa. where ever the negroid has been, civilization comes to a standstill, then regresses. look at rhodesia/zimbabwe and south africa as evidence
Australoid are the most archaic living race today as they have retained the cranio-facial features of our remote ancestors the most finely, and ironically they are also the least genetically related to negroids who also happen to have the same skin tone as them. Australoids at their apex morphology have the most extreme archaemorphic traits such as the most extreme prognathism and browridges of all living humans and archaic facial/skull structure. No offense, but they are probably the least related to Negroids of all ppl and at least no more related to one as a Chinese or Japanese. That’s just the facts!
Shang Lu
Please provide some authority for your position just like the good Prof. Clyde Winters has done. If you can not then go read the authorities cited by the good Prof so that you can grow up.
Thanks
DJ
where did native americans come from?
repled to Darwin charles
Listen first of all ancient africa is the birth place of mankind, they dont need to modernize africa, and it’s people, because they need to preserve the birthplace of civilization. The reason why white people know so much about science and tecnology is because africa has done a sgreat job in preserving the history of the birthplace of mankind. Africa is the one that started tecnology it’s only fare that the white man advances the tecnology. The white man has stolen everything that there is to steal with their conquering of people(slavery) to the conquering of territories. And with them taking credit for tecnology from the worlds first people, I’ll say this, all good things old and new can be accreditted back to it’s originator(africans).
Peking Man is a homo-erectus, so whether one thinks he has “negroid” or “mongoloid” features is irrelevant. The very scientist whose name you invoke, Jin Li, has ruled out that modern Chinese are descended from Peking Man. Jin Li’s research simply confirms the out of Africa theory, it has nothing to do with black Africans actually founding the Xia or Shang dynasties. Yes, we all came from Africa, so I suppose you could argue that Africans founded every civilization, since all homo sapiens are ultimately from Africa, but that is quite different from your claim that black Africans founded our early dynasties.
Sirs/Madams:
I find the view of Dr. Clyde Winters to be bizarre in the extreme as regards the origins of the Austronesians. The Austronesian-speaking ancestors of most of today’s Filipinos, Indonesians, Malaysians, Hawaiians, Samoans, Fijians, etc. were neither Han Chinese nor Black African. They sprang from a neolithic culture originally from South China-Taiwan. South China, incidentally, is the ancient cradle of numerous other nations who have millions of descendants today (Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese among them). Again, their forbears were neither Han Chinese nor Black Afican.
Of course, the ancesors of all modern human populations came out of Africa in the distant past. But whoever those venerable ancestors may have been, none of the peoples they gave rise to over tens of thousands of years in East Asia can even remotely be considered Black African.
Finally, there are people of dark and black skin in Southeast Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, mainly the Andamese in the Indian Ocean, the Negrito/Aeta in the Philippines and Malaysia, the Papuan peoples in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia, and the Australoids in Australia. These are truly ancient peoples, who arrived in their homelands millennia before the Austronesians came on the scene. However, they are genetically and linguistacally very distant from any existing Black African population. Through millennia of intermarraige, moreover, they have become closer to their Austronesian neighbors.
Please read Peter Bellwood, Stephen Oppenheimer, and many others on the Austronesians.
Thank you.