Southern Song Dynasty immigrated to Guangdong.

Hakka has always had a tradition of migration, which began in Rongbaiyue period in Lingnan, Qin Zheng, and went through Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties. Due to the war and other reasons, the Han people in the Central Plains moved south many times on a large scale. They gradually moved to the south of the Yangtze River, and then to Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. At the latest, a relatively stable Hakka ethnic group was formed in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the modern history of China, "going to South Asia" is a spectacular immigration tide that lasted for many years. It is also called "going to the East" and "going to the West" in history. At that time, many Hakkas were forced to make a living and went to Nanyang to work for gold, and even took root in Nanyang.

The Chinese nation has always been a farming nation. The biggest feature of farming people is that they like to stick to one acre and three points, and are willing to live a quiet life of "wife and children fever". It really takes a lot of courage to be a wanderer far from home, work hard and explore the new world. However, a careful analysis of the background at that time shows that during the historical period from the end of Ming Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty, domestic wars continued and the people were in dire straits. Accompanied by numerous peasant uprisings, foreign invasions and dynasty changes. Fujian and Guangdong were turbulent and poor at that time, with a large population and few people, and the lives of ordinary people were extremely difficult to maintain. Fujian and Guangdong people went to Nanyang in batches again and again, not only to escape the war, but also to make a living, maintain family life and change the fate of individuals or families.

Many overseas Hakkas are from Meizhou, but Tingzhou people who live in Hakka communities rarely go abroad.

People in Mei Hakka area have long gone abroad to make a living. The earliest written records can be traced back to the late Southern Song Dynasty. /kloc-In the 20th century, with the development of western colonialists in various parts of Nanyang, a large number of Hakkas began to make a living in Nanyang. By the first half of the 20th century, the hometown of overseas Chinese in Meizhou was formed. There are many reasons for Hakkas to go abroad, the most important of which is forced by difficult livelihood.

The Hakka area in the mountainous area of eastern Guangdong is sparsely populated. The saying "eight mountains, one water and one field" vividly illustrates this feature. The tension between man and land has led to a difficult life for Hakkas, forcing a large number of Hakkas to go abroad to make a living since the early Qing Dynasty. Besides, there are political and social reasons. It also allows a large number of people to make a living overseas. For example, as early as the late Qing Dynasty, Songkou Town, a very famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Meixian County, had the saying that "every family has overseas Chinese relations and ten thousand people go abroad"; Here, in the ancestral temple of a partridge named Dr. Liang, it is written: a teenager will go to Nanyang at the age of seventeen or eighteen; The elder surnamed Li of the local academy said that there were more than 700 students here during the Anti-Japanese War, including more than 500 business workers in Nanyang. In Hakka, going abroad to make a living is called going abroad. Therefore, many Hakka folk songs mentioned "Frant Gwo", such as "Farewell to Lang Guofan", a Hakka folk song describing the trip to Nanyang at that time!

After hundreds of years of hard work, overseas Hakkas finally laid a certain economic foundation in their place of residence, and many Hakkas and overseas Chinese also sent money home to support their families. In Songkou, there are tens of thousands of dollars flowing into Baiyangdian every year, and more than 90% overseas Chinese families rely on remittances to make a living. There are also many people who support the economic construction of the people in their hometown. They have made indelible contributions to the economic development and prosperity of their hometown of overseas Chinese, and their main deeds are endless. It is precisely because of the injection of a large number of foreign capital that the overseas Chinese hometown society in Meizhou Hakka area has been formed, which has also laid a solid foundation for the rise of water customers and overseas Chinese wholesale industry. Here, I will make a simple discussion on the water passenger industry in Meizhou.

Take Sarawak, Malaysia's largest state, as an example. During the reign of the then Governor of Sarawak, Labrador II, a special notice was issued: immigrants were given enough free land for planting, and the government provided temporary housing to resettle immigrants; Free rice and salt for immigrants for one year; Provide transportation, set up police stations to protect the safety of Chinese, and Chinese can live permanently in Sarawak. Such a policy is undoubtedly attractive to unemployed refugees who have lost their land in China. It was at this time that many Hakkas came across the ocean to Nanyang, either with their wives and belts or alone.