Meizhou customs and culture

As the descendants of the ancient Central Plains people, Hakkas have inherited the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, which can be summarized as diligence, hospitality, respect for teachers and education, and patriotism and love for their hometown. Hakka people moved from the Central Plains to Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Because the plain area has been occupied by aborigines, they can only settle in barren mountainous areas, so life is hard and they must struggle. Hakka people's pioneering spirit and self-control ability are also outstanding. Hakka women, in particular, are famous all over the world for their diligence and virtue, excellent farm work and housework, and particularly strong family values, and are known as "iron men"; As immigrants, the early Hakkas lived in sparsely populated, backward and remote mountainous areas, and their psychological needs for interpersonal communication and solidarity were particularly strong. Although their life is hard, they have developed a cultural tradition of hospitality. Hakka ancestors "traveled south" from the Central Plains, mostly from "scholarly families", so they had a high cultural quality and always attached importance to cultural education. Among them, Meizhou has the most outstanding performance and is known as the "hometown of culture".

guangdong hanchu opera

Guangdong Han Opera used to be called "Waijiang Opera" and "Xingmei Han Opera", and 1933 was renamed as Han Opera. Popular in Meixian, Shantou, northeastern Guangdong and the border areas of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi. During the period from Yongzheng to Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, Huizhou Opera was introduced into Guangdong and formed. The performances of Guangdong Han Opera are similar to those of Beijing Opera, xiang opera, Qi Opera and Hubei Han Opera, but they also have their own characteristics and styles. His martial arts belong to the southern school, and there are more than 100 kinds of facial makeup, mainly black, red and white. Black symbolizes courage, red symbolizes loyalty and virtue, and white and cyan symbolize insidiousness and treachery. The musical vocals of Guangdong Han Opera are mainly Pihuang, including Kunqu Opera, Gaoqiang Opera, Blowing Opera and Minor. Many ancient tunes have been preserved. Simple and honest, high-pitched and solemn are the inherent style characteristics of Guangdong Han opera music singing. His roles are divided into nine categories: Catholic, Old Student, Xiao Sheng, Lao Dan, Zheng Dan, Hua Dan, Red Mirror, Wu Mirror and Clown. Its accompaniment instruments are also quite distinctive. Killer, Dasu Gong and Horn are unique accompaniment instruments of Guangdong Han Opera. There are more than 800 traditional China dramas in Guangdong. The famous ones are Wang Qi Qiu Jiang, the wife of Priscilla, and a bag of wheat, a modern drama.

Hakka dialect

Hakka dialect is a dialect centered on Meixian dialect. Mainly distributed in eastern Guangdong and northern Guangdong, about 20 counties and cities in the province belong to Hakka dialect areas. It is based on Meixian dialect, because Meixian dialect has great influence and clear language. Hakka dialect is also a Chinese dialect formed in ethnic migration. Before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the ancestors of Hakkas lived in the Central Plains. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, various wars and natural disasters occurred in the Central Plains, and Hakka ancestors had to move south. Some moved to Hubei, Hunan and other places, and then left the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in the late Tang Dynasty, and some went further south to Jiangxi and Fujian. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song and Yuan Dynasties were at war, and the world was in chaos. Hakka ancestors further migrated to Guangdong and gradually settled in eastern Guangdong. In the Song Dynasty, the household registration was divided into the main account and the customer, and the latter was called the customer. In the process of immigration, because he stayed in Hunan and Hubei for nearly 400 years, he did not enter Guangdong until the Tang and Song Dynasties, so his dialect was closer to Hunan and Hubei. Among the four major dialects in Guangdong, it is also the smallest difference from Mandarin. Hakka dialect has six tones, divided into yin and yang, regardless of the upper and lower, and retains six ancient vowels. There is a great difference in pronunciation between written and spoken language. In addition, Hakka ancestors originally used northern dialects, but after living in Guangdong, they gradually disappeared under the influence of different Cantonese dialects and geographical and historical environments.