What is Hakka culture?

Hakka culture refers to the culture created jointly by the Hakka people, including Hakka language, drama, music, dance, crafts, folk customs, architecture, humanities, food, etc. Hakka culture is an important part of southern China's culture and a unique and rare treasure in Chinese Han culture. For thousands of years, the Hakka people have tried their best to preserve their unique and charming culture, so that the Hakka culture not only inherits the excellent Han culture of the Chinese nation, but also creates a rich and colorful culture that keeps pace with the times. As an important tributary of Lingnan culture, Guangdong Hakka culture, like Guangfu culture and Chaoshan culture, is a relatively stable culture produced by the mutual integration of ancient southern Guangdong indigenous culture and Central Plains Han culture for thousands of years. Although Hakka culture is spread throughout China's Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan and other provinces, as well as overseas in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, etc., research on the historical origins of such a wide distribution did not attract widespread attention until the 20th century. . There are also some sporadic records of the previous Hakka origins, which can be traced back to the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The Hakkas are a large ethnic group of the Han people in China. They have a long history and a large number of people. According to relevant sources, the total number of Hakkas is 55 million, of which about 45 million are in China. Among overseas Hakkas, most of them live in In some countries in Asia, there are about 1.25 million in Malaysia, about 400,000 in Indonesia, about 370,000 in Thailand, about 300,000 in Vietnam, 200,000 in Singapore, and 100,000 in Myanmar. Others are distributed in the Americas, Europe, Australia and other places, which are so widely distributed. The study of the historical origins of the Hakkas did not attract widespread attention until the 20th century. However, there were also some sporadic records of the origins of the Hakkas before, which can be traced back to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

The Hakka are an important member of the Chinese nation, a Han ethnic group with distinctive characteristics, and a geographical group among the Han nation. Hakka culture is the sum of all material culture and spiritual culture created by this group in its formation and development process to adapt to and transform living conditions. Once this culture is generated, it becomes the identification mark of the group and the core force that maintains the group's survival and development. In other words, without the Hakka community, there would be no Hakka culture; but without the long-term and stable development of the Hakka culture, it would be impossible for the Hakka community to have such strong vitality that it could still be maintained after hundreds or thousands of years. Until now. ?The Hakka ethnic group is widely distributed, among which the triangle area on the border of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi is its main settlement area. Abroad, it is mainly in Southeast Asia. According to academic estimates, there are currently about 40 to 50 million Hakka people. Hakka culture is a regional culture formed under specific historical conditions and represented by immigrants. Why is it said to be a regional culture? Because the emergence of this culture has a very clear geographical scope, it only emerged in the Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong triangle areas and not in other places.