Who is the Hakka? What is the connotation of Hakka culture?

Hakka, a Han nationality whose mother tongue is Hakka, is one of the aborigines in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and Taiwan Province provinces in southern China. [ 1]

Hakka culture refers to the sum of material culture and spiritual culture created by Hakka people, including Hakka dialects, Hakka folk customs, Hakka folk houses, Hakka folk songs, Hakka art, Hakka characters, Hakka landscapes, Hakka poems, Hakka history, Hakka diet and Hakka distribution at home and abroad [1].

Hakka culture is mainly popular in Shenzhen, Huizhou, Heyuan, Meizhou and Shaoguan in Guangdong, Ganzhou in Jiangxi, Longyan and Sanming in Fujian, Hezhou, Yulin and Fangchenggang in Guangxi, Hsinchu, Miaoli and Taoyuan in Taiwan Province. [2][3][4][5][6] The scope mainly includes the Hakka base camps in Ganjiang, Tingjiang, Meijiang, Dongjiang and Beijiang river basins in Gannan, western Fujian, eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong and the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary, as well as Hakka settlements scattered in Hunan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Zhejiang and Qiong provinces. [7] [8] [9] [10] [1] [12] The process of the formation and development of Hakka is also the process of the assimilation of the local indigenous She nationality and the formation of Hakka culture. [ 13][ 14]

Hakka culture is known as the living fossil of ancient culture in China. Hakka studies is an outstanding school in the world today. It is the characteristic of Hakka culture, and the basic characteristic of Hakka culture is Confucian culture. Immigrant culture is also an important feature of Hakka culture. Hakka's ancestor worship, emphasis on education, root-seeking consciousness, pioneering spirit and strange and colorful folk customs are, to a great extent, the externalization of these three cultural characteristics; Hakka people of different branches have different cultural characteristics.

Hakka people are spread all over China, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan Province and other provinces, and even as far away as Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Thailand and other places, with a wide distribution and far-reaching influence. By 20 17, there were three national experimental areas for Hakka cultural and ecological protection approved by the Ministry of People and Culture of China [15].

Chinese name

Hakka culture

Cultural characteristics

Kirin dance, Hakka cool hat, Longgang dragon dance

nature

Confucian culture

Be distributed

Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, etc

music

Longgang Gege, Hu Yong Gege and Yantian Folk Songs