What do you mean by Hakka?

"Hakka" literally means foreign residents.

As the appellation of clan, the meaning of "home" should be "person", not "household", such as "shopkeeper" and "boatman". "Hakka" is the abbreviation of Hakka and Hakka. But "guest" is not a simple outsider compared with "master", such as Guangfu school, Fuxing school and so on. They are also Han Chinese who moved south from the Central Plains, and they are also "outsiders". Why not call it Hakka? The reason is still under discussion in academic circles.

Historically, all ethnic groups in the south of the Han nationality formed earlier than the Hakkas, basically in the same administrative region (some of them are only partially extended), while the Hakkas formed later, not in the same administrative region, but in the connecting areas of the three provinces. Another special phenomenon is that the original aborigines or owners in this connecting area, in addition to a very small number of Guyue people, also include "Shanke", "Muke" and "Xieke". Most of them are also "outsiders". These "Hakkas" and later "Hakkas" have lived together for a long time and merged with each other, giving birth to unique language and cultural characteristics. (It can be considered that the ethnic group was initially formed at this time, but there was no official name. However, these unique people moved abroad, such as Fulao, Guangfu and other residential areas, and were called guests, customers and Hakkas by local hosts.

On the origin of Hakka names, the current view is from "he said" to "self-proclaimed". "He said" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Claiming that time began in the middle of Qing Dynasty. But this does not mean that the Hakka clan was formed at this time. "He said," It was the Fulao people along the coast of Fujian and the Guangfu people along the coast of Guangdong who first "said" it. "Claiming" is self-identification. Because the history of Hakka before the formation of clan system has always been the migration history of visiting other places. People have no derogatory meaning for titles, and at the same time, they are in line with their own history; I agree.