What does Hakka culture mean?

Hakka culture refers to the sum of material culture and spiritual culture created by Hakka people.

Hakka culture is a unique culture that has been formed in Hakka gathering places for a long time. Its constituent elements mainly include Hakka dialects, Hakka folk customs, Hakka folk songs, dramas, Hakka pop music, Hakka proverbs, Hakka nursery rhymes, Hakka folk songs, Hakka characters, Hakka landscapes, Hakka poems, Hakka history, Hakka diet, Hakka family rules, Hakka martial arts, Hakka celebrity stories and Hakka distribution at home and abroad.

Hakka culture is the bond of Hakka ethnic identity and an important part of Chinese excellent traditional culture. Hakka culture, known as the living fossil of ancient culture in China, originated from Huaxia culture and Central Plains culture in the Tang and Song Dynasties, which were preserved when the Han nationality moved south in the Central Plains. On the one hand, it retains the mainstream characteristics of the Central Plains culture, advocates the orthodox culture of China and inherits the poetic ceremony; On the other hand, he is good at absorbing nutrients from local ethnic minorities and accommodating the cultural essence of local ethnic groups.

Introduce the main customs of Hakka;

1, Hakka lithium fish lantern: the traditional dance of ancient Han nationality is still popular in Hakka settlements such as Meizhou, Huizhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province. The representative works of dancing carp lanterns include yue longmen of Carp and Carp Club. The dancing lithium fish lantern originated from the fish totem dance in primitive society. There are vivid records of ichthyosaurs and arowana in Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It can be seen that the literature and art of fish lanterns, dragon lanterns and ichthyosaurs flourished in Chang 'an of Han Dynasty more than 1700 years ago.

2. Hakka Buma Dance, also known as Bamboo Horse Dance, originated in Jiucun Town, Raoping, Guangdong Province, where Hakkas lived in compact communities, and later spread to surrounding areas. But Raoping Hakkas who immigrated to Taiwan Province Province for hundreds of years are still passed down today. Buma dance has a history of more than 700 years, and its forms of expression are close to those in the north, such as "dry boat", "donkey running" and "lotus dance", and it is known as a gorgeous mountain flower of Han traditional culture and art.