Shenzhen Hakka in Shenzhen Hakka Culture Festival

Among the aborigines in Shenzhen, Hakkas account for about 62%. Longgang District, Yantian District, Longhua New District, Pingshan New District and Dapeng New District are the main settlements of Hakkas in Shenzhen.

Hakkas first entered Shenzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and most of them entered after thirty years of Kangxi, among which the largest number came from Jiaying Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture. The immigration tide continued until Jiaqing, and Guangxu was the latest. Jiayingfu and Huizhou are in the northeast of Shenzhen, so Longgang is their concentrated residential area after Hakka immigrants enter.

Longgang, the largest Hakka settlement in Shenzhen, is a typical example of the "fourth great migration" of Hakka people. In the 30th year of Kangxi (1690), a large number of Hakkas moved to Shenzhen. After two or three generations' hard struggle for 60 or 70 years, the first batch of large-scale Hakka forts, represented by the "New Qiao's Residence" in Kengzi, were built one after another around 1750, which indicates that Shenzhen Hakka has not only taken root, but also possessed considerable economic strength. Since then, the Hakka area in Shenzhen, centered on Longgang, has entered a glorious period that lasted for more than a hundred years.

During the 300 years' deep cultivation, the Hakkas had a long period of economic prosperity and cultural development. They can adapt to the new environment and seize good opportunities; Adhere to agriculture as the foundation and seize the opportunity to develop local industry and commerce; It can not only maintain tradition, but also promote new fashion. The development history of Longgang Hakka is the epitome of the national spirit of Shenzhen Hakka people who are hardworking, brave, self-sufficient and struggling.