A gathering place for modern Hakkas.

Meizhou is the "Hakka Capital of the World" and the main distribution center and settlement of Hakka people. At present, there are many Hakkas living in Meizhou, Huizhou, Heyuan, Shaoguan and other counties in Guangdong, as well as parts of Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hunan, Taiwan Province, Hainan and Fujian.

There is a misunderstanding upstairs. Chaoshan people live in Chaoshan area of Chaozhou, not Hakkas.

The following are the differences between Hakka and Chaoshan people:

Hakka is a characteristic ethnic group of Han nationality, and it is also one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic groups of Han nationality in the world. It is distributed in Meizhou, Heyuan, Huiyang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hunan, Taiwan Province, Hainan, Fujian and other places in Guangdong, and distributed in more than 120 counties. Ancestors lived in the Yellow River valley, and went south in large numbers in the late Western Jin Dynasty (early 4th century) and the late Tang Dynasty (late 9th century) due to war. /kloc-after the demise of the southern song dynasty in the 0' s and 270' s, it moved to Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong. Call themselves "Hakkas" or "Lairen" to distinguish them from the locals. Hakka dialect is one of Chinese dialects, which retains more ancient Chinese phonology. Folk songs have a unique style. Hakkas keep their own customs and traditions in the area where they live. Women are full of energy, participate in labor production, are not bound by feudal bad habits, and are brave in making progress. In modern times, after the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, many Hakkas were forced to disperse to a wider area, some moved to Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong, or lived in Nanyang.

There are many theories about the origin of Hakka, mainly including Hakka Zhongyuan theory and Hakka mixed-race theory. The theory of Hakka Central Plains holds that the main body of Hakka people is immigrants from the Central Plains, while the theory of Hakka aborigines holds that "Hakka * * is the same main body produced by the integration of Han people who moved south and ancient Vietnamese immigrants in the triangle area of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, and its main body is the ancient Vietnamese living in this land, not a few Central Plains people living in this area". Since the Song Dynasty, the Han nationality in the Central Plains moved southward on a large scale, passing through southern Jiangxi and western Fujian to Meizhou, and finally formed a relatively mature and stable Hakka family. Since then, Hakkas, based in Meizhou, have moved abroad in large numbers and moved to the whole country and even the rest of the world. The "three Hakka States" are Jiaying, Ganzhou and Tingzhou.

Chaoshan people, including Heluo people in Hailufeng area of Shanwei, can also be understood as the integration of the original Chaozhou government and Shanwei city, with similar language and folk culture. Lufeng is close to three Jiazi towns, Jiadong town and Jiaxi town in Huilai area, as well as Jieshi town, Nantang town and Neihu town. It is a good hall with distinctive features such as Chaoshan culture, English songs and Kung Fu tea. As for the Xuanwu Mountain Buddha in jieshi town, it is a holy place for Chaoshan people to worship. Chaoshan Guild Hall in history and Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce distributed all over the world can also witness the combination of Chaoshan merchants and Hailufeng merchants. In addition, many Shanwei people overseas, especially in Hong Kong and Macao, will also identify themselves as chaozhou people.

However, because Hailufeng area has been far away from Chaoshan base camp for a long time, it has almost always been under the jurisdiction of the original Huizhou government, and it is inevitable that there is insufficient sense of identity. In addition, the unpleasant experiences experienced by Chaoshan people who have passed through Hailufeng section of National Highway 324 do not quite agree with Hailufeng. This requires the joint efforts and mutual recognition of both sides in the future. After all, whether they like it or not, the concept of Chaoshan has been gradually accepted by outsiders. In fact, the phenomenon of one glory and one loss has begun to appear.

Incidentally, there are two ethnic groups in China who prefer wandering, one is Heluo ethnic group and the other is Hakka. The difference between the two is that the former is a group of people who can easily make their hometown in other places, unlike the latter, who always visit everywhere. Although the Hakkas will give people a feeling of coming from other places, at least they have the same name as the Hakkas. From Minnan to Chaoshan, from Leizhou Peninsula to Hainan Island, from Gaozhou to Wenzhou and then to Taiwan Province Province, Heluo people will only call themselves by the name of their place of residence. Therefore, compared with Hakkas, they are more likely to lose their own language and be assimilated, such as tens of thousands of Chaozhou fishermen who once lived in Huizhou. Most of them don't know that they belong to the Heluo family, and even think that they belong to the Heluo family. It was not until modern times that they gradually got a perceptual knowledge.

In addition, the Heluo clan has a kind of infighting. Although this is a common bad habit of China people, the internal situation of Heluo clan with relatively fierce folk customs may be more serious. This may also be the reason why students of Heluo Folk Department often fight in Guangzhou's secondary school. For example, Chaoshan Jiefeng often collaborates with students from Hailufeng and fights with students from Leizhou. After the other party is settled, it may also split and fight. In Chaoshan, they played badly behind closed doors.

So in Guangdong, unlike the vernacular, foreigners are vaguely regarded as Guangfu people, and Hakka people who speak Hakka are also regarded as Hakka people, but Heluo people who speak Heluo dialect are divided into several regions. People of insight in Chaoshan should be aware of such a problem before slowly trying to integrate the Heluo clan in Chaoshan.