In the late "Huang San" era, clans gradually developed into tribes, and finally, Yan Di, the leader who loosely managed a group of farming tribes, appeared. Emperor Yan passed on to the seventh generation, which was a transitional period from "Huang San" to "Five Emperors".

At the end of Emperor Yan's era, Xuanyuan nationality rose in the north, defeated Emperor Yan, unified the tribes in the Yellow River valley by force, and established the authority of tribal alliance, which was called the Yellow Emperor. At this time, the ancient history of China entered the "Five Emperors" period. The era of "Five Emperors" belongs to the late primitive society. When the last emperor appeared, the clan name "Hua" came into being.

Later, with the development of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the cultural model of China gradually took shape. The ethnic group that represents this cultural pattern in history is called "Huaxia".