Poems about Hakka Culture

I know that there are a lot of spiritual traces in the fairyland, but I don't want to look at them in the chess game.

The wine is ripe, and the fishermen's houses are piled up with straw raincoats in the evening sunshine. Half a curtain, the wind and the moon are in the air, and a sword, the fame, is on the water.

Pointing to the old days, a few people's sleeves are streaked with tears. （Qiu Daolong (邱道隆), a native of Shanghang (上杭), was a scholar in Jingtai (景泰), and a royal historian of the Jiangnan Road.

The man who was so outspoken, he was banished to Nanxiong. When I picked the chi, I was able to get it, and I couldn't get the sun to go first.

The path is not remote from the ordinary guests, the clouds are deep and there is a big fairy. The first time I saw this is when I was a kid, and it was a very good time for me.

(Xiong Shier, name Xinglin, Yongding people. Chongzhen between the bachelor's degree, Hubei and Guangxi inspectors, supervision of the imperial censor.

There is "Suyuan poetry and literature" "Hakka" detailed definition: Hakka is the remnants of the ancient Yue and the Qin since the Han people in the Central Plains mixed with each other into the people **** the same body. [1] Starting from the Song Dynasty, the She, Dong, Han and other ethnic groups at the junction of Guangdong, Gan and Fujian exchanged marriages, and after a thousand years of evolution eventually formed a relatively stable Hakka folk line.

Then they migrated to the southern provinces and even to Southeast Asia and the rest of the world, and eventually became a globally distributed and humanistically distinct ethnic group among the Han Chinese. Scholars estimate that there are about 15 million Hakka people in the world.

History: Huang Zunxian in the "Mei Shui Poetry Biography - Preface" said: "Jiaying a state, accounting for nine out of ten for the Hakka. This guest, from the River Luo, from the Fujian into Guangdong, passed on thirty, seven hundred years."

According to Huang Zunxian's statement, Jiaying State since 1773 (Qing Yongzheng eleven years) to establish the state, from the beginning of the Jiaying State back to the beginning of the Hakka people have been settled in the land of Jiaying for more than 700 years, has been continued for thirty heirs, is about 1000 years around the time of the (Northern Song Dynasty) in the Central Plains of the ethnic groups migrated southward to the land of the Jiaying. In contrast, many of the residents of the Pearl River Delta, who are categorized as Guangfu dialect speakers, have not yet passed on their 30th generation of descendants by the beginning of the 21st century, so it is clear that the Hakka people did not settle in Lingnan any later than the Guangfu dialect speakers.

There is a very obvious fact that: the Hakka people can not be all from the River Luo region, Huang Zunxian called "from the River Luo, from Fujian into Guangdong" must be only a part of the summary, and can not be referring to all the Hakka people. The description of the origin of the inhabitants of Jiayingzhou in Huang Zunxian's "Preface to the Poetry Biography of Meishui" is probably based on his own family's migration history.

In addition, in Huang Zunxian's "Miscellaneous Poems of Yihai", it is also mentioned: "Wicker Road, the arc of the spread of the migration, the south is far more than a thousand years. The dialect is enough to prove the rhyme of the Central Plains, and the rituals and customs still remain from three generations ago."

This proves once again that the Hakka people have their roots in the Central Plains, and many of them have settled in Lingnan for more than 1,000 years. The Wanfu Temple in Tai Po County was built in 834 (the eighth year of Emperor Wenzong Taihe of the Tang Dynasty), and has been in existence for more than 1,180 years as of 2014.

According to the Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhishan edited "Zhengde Xingning County Zhi", Song Jianshi Daifu, Hanlin scholar, scout Luo Mengjiao childhood, in the southern foot of the Shenguang Mountain Guiren Peak of the small temple to study. Often study by the pool, wash the ink stone in the pool, its water is as black as possible.

Luo Mengjiao after the examination, the townspeople will expand this small temple, and named Mochi Temple. Luo Mengjiao was born in the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty in Xingning County, the state of Methodist China, certainly can not be the Northern Song Dynasty from the Central Plains to the south, since the Tang Dynasty has been settled here before.

About the origin of the Hakka there are a variety of claims, the main Hakka Central Plains and Hakka indigenous say. Hakka Central said that the main body of the Hakka constitute immigrants from the Central Plains, while the Hakka indigenous said that "the Hakka **** the same body, is the south of the Han people and the Fujian, Guangdong and Gan triangle area of the ancient Yue immigrants mixed with the **** the same body, the main body of the ancient Yue folk living in this land, not just the south of the Central Plains strayed into the region. ".

According to the anthropological as well as migration history research over the years, the former statement can largely be considered more in line with the historical truth. Starting from the Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties and the two Song dynasties, the Han people of the Central Plains were invaded by the northern minorities many times to move southward in a big way, and arrived at the northeast of Guangdong through Gannan and the western part of Fujian, and eventually formed a relatively mature Hakka folk line with strong stability.

Nanshan Pond Five Dynasties Liang Zao Emerald blowing over the lotus with rain, herons flying through the bamboo smoke.

When you put the village wine in the Xuanxuan drink, to pick new leaves by the stone fried. (Liang Zao, Changting people, the Five Dynasties, there is "Liang Shi Shi collection") climb Xie Gong Lou Song Scholar Zou Yinglong along the coast of the outline of the city to open the green screen, the South Mountain Yuxiu want to cloud.

The temple pagoda towers over Cangwu1, and the peaks on the river are all green. The first thing you need to do is to make yourself drunk on Taibai, and then pour into the Qujiang River alone ②.

The wind flow of Jiangzuo order where, hanging ancient poetry who understand listen. (Zou Yinglong, Song Qingyuan between the first scholar, the first scholar.

The government of Quanzhou, Ganzhou, Guangxi, the Secretary of the Ministry of Public Works. He was also a university scholar in the Hall of Duanming during the Jiaxi period.

Cangyu Cave (Changting Sibao) Yuan Yishi Wang Menglin Qu Quqingxi stacked mountains, deep in the stone door there is a Zen pass. I come from the taste of leisure, sit and listen to the mountain heavy end of the day back.

(Wang Menglin, Qingliu people, late in life in Ting. (There is a small collection of stone niches.) Climbing to the mountain of the big half of the Ming poet Li Ying Fang Ren cloud peaks to protect a mountain, nine days of wind and dew through the clothes cold.

I know that there are a lot of spiritual traces in the fairyland, but I don't want to look at them in the chess game. (Li Ying, a poet from Shanghang, wrote "Plum Hidden Draft", compiled "Hangchuan Fengya Collection") Nanquanan Ming scholar Qiu Daolong, a warrior of the Southern Expedition, wanted to throw his sword, and he was looking for music to reflect the flag of Xue Luo.

The wine is ripe, and the fishermen's houses are piled up with straw raincoats in the evening sunshine. Half a curtain, the wind and the moon are in the air, and a sword, the fame, is on the water.

Pointing to the old days, a few people's sleeves are streaked with tears. （Qiu Daolong (邱道隆), a native of Shanghang (上杭), was a scholar in Jingtai (景泰), and a royal historian of the Jiangnan Road.

The man who was so outspoken, he was banished to Nanxiong.

To climb the North Mountain (Ming Jinshi Xiong Shi'er, why do you want to get into the dust net, but the mountain is high enough to whistle to the sky. When picking a Chi, a get, get the day can not be the first.

The path is not remote from the ordinary guests, the clouds are deep and there is a big fairy. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second time I saw it.

(Xiong Shier, name Xinglin, Yongding people. Chongzhen between the bachelor's degree, Hubei and Guangxi inspectors, supervision of the imperial censor.

There is the Suyuan Poetry and Literature Collection).

The colorful Hakka culture, in a nutshell, there are three basic features: First, the style of simplicity; second, the spirit of pragmatism and avoidance of falsehood; third, the temperament of the anti-Ben chasing the distance.

First, the style of simplicity and simplicity The simple, small-scale agricultural farming in the base camp area, so that the reality of the Hakka people can only stay in a relatively simple, crude, low state. "There are many mountains and few fields, and there is no recipe for arboriculture.

What the land produces is not for consumption. Walking up the Sichuan, crossing the heavy ocean, leaving the well, back parents, to herb remedy.

Before becoming a child, both for the wanderer, abound" (Republic of China "Tai Po County Records"). This is what many Hakka people have experienced **** the same life.

Shang "simple" sublime "clumsy", depreciate "luxury" and "wasteful", has long become not only the Hakka people not only become stubborn attitude towards life, but also developed into their lasting, strong life philosophy and aesthetic fashion. Such as "years of enjoyment is not abolished, but also rarely apprehensive about eliminating luxury.

Young and old clothing is still new, not flowing from the extravagant potential", "quality straight and good thrift, not to do the extravagant", "people nature straight, gas habits strong and resolute"; and then "crown marriage funeral and sacrifice is still frugal, clothing and food utensils do not want to be lavish. The people are good at governing their lives and have an industrious and thrifty style, and the people know how to do their studies without being extravagant"; and "The Qi people do not seek splendor in their dwellings, do not seek extravagance in their clothes, do not seek differences in their diets, and do not seek oddities in their utensils." In the Hakka region, from the daily diet, to the annual festivals, large residential buildings, small to clothing and materials, all exudes this noble and simple bones.

The Hakka people's aesthetic sense of simplicity and respect for clumsiness is typically reflected in the Hakka women. The Hakka women have a typical aesthetic sense, which is reflected in the Hakka women. "The women come to fetch water at sunset, with long skirts and bare feet, with sideburns piled up with crows", "Early in the morning, they start to work hard at twilight, and let it be the wind and the sun.

Don't be afraid of the ugly appearance of the passers-by, but know that the concubine does not have a red face." The Hakka women's concept of beauty is reflected in the poems circulating in the Hakka region.

Second, the spirit of pragmatism and avoidance of falsehoods The Hakka people like to say: "Sow melon and reap melon, sow beans and reap beans, a plow, a harvest." They believe that empty words do not help matters, do practical things will be rewarded.

"With the points of plowing and hoeing to harvest the land, he was full of thank God", "a hundred martial arts, not worth the hoe to the ground," this is the Hakka region of the ballad, reflecting the Hakka spirit of truthfulness and pragmatism. "The scholar is ashamed to be false and pragmatic, and seldom boasts of anything", even the traditional scholar and literati in the Dabeng area, also revered this truth-seeking and pragmatic attitude to life.

This pragmatic spirit rooted in the agricultural civilization on the basis of not only embodied in the real life of the Hakka people, but also firmly rooted in the deep consciousness of the Hakka people. Third, the temperament of the Hakka people have a strong sense of ancestor worship.

The strong historical consciousness generated by the anti-ancestors, so that the Hakka region's various cultural events, all with the ancient style and ancient meaning. Some people compare the cultures of different regions of China with each other, and describe them vividly: compared to the new wave of Wu-Yue culture, the calm courage of the Central Plains culture, and the mysterious Jing-Xiang culture, the Hakka culture insists on a kind of national history of depth and gravity.

It does not have the spirit of Wuyue, not the majesty of the Central Plains, nor the romance of Jingchu, but it is the melting pot of the historical depth of the national culture, condensing the national historical heritage of the broad style and profound temperament. The Hakka culture is one of the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture, and it is a significant feature of the traditional Hakka culture.

China has been a typical agricultural society since ancient times.

China has been a typical agricultural society since ancient times.

People who were born and grew up in the country have an infinite attachment to their native land. Many Hakka people, away from the countryside for dozens of years, although the childhood life is so poor, but the thought of the homeland is so sweet.

The local sentiment, infused in the traditional Chinese culture; permeated in the Hakka culture. Migration, uprooted from their homeland, over the mountains, across the ocean, not forgetting the hometown of the land and loved ones.

The Hakka people have been forced to migrate again and again, forced to leave their hometowns and lose their hometowns, how can they not know more about the loveliness of their hometowns? How can they not cherish the friendship of their hometown? Traditional folk culture and art reflecting the local flavor. In the Hakka traditional culture, there is nothing more reflective of the local flavor than the Hakka songs.

As the saying goes, "Hakka songs are famous," and "Hakka songs come out of Songkou (the name of the place, harmonized with "from the mouth")." This kind of folk song with a strong local flavor makes people feel homesick and nostalgic, which is unique in Chinese folk songs.

Hakka songs are a colorful flower in the garden of Chinese folklore, as well as a wonderful poem in the garden of oriental poetry. Hakka songs are the treasure of Hakka folklore.

It comes directly from the people, and expresses the production and life, joys and sorrows of the Hakka people, which is deep, simple and beautiful, and is loved by the people. For thousands of years, Hakka songs have been widely and persistently circulated in the Hakka settlements, with a strong artistic vitality and everlasting charm.

In addition to Hakka songs, there are also local dramas such as Guangdong Han Opera, Cai Cha Opera, Hua Chao Opera, puppetry on strings, and Shan Opera. These local dramas, except for the Han Opera, are sung in Hakka dialect, and the tunes have a strong local flavor.

In the traditional Hakka culture, the most widely spread, easy to understand, Hakka flavor is the folk proverbs. In particular, those proverbs that are nostalgic for their relatives are engraved in people's hearts.

Such as: "long life is not afraid of far away from home", "at home for a thousand days good, go out half a day difficult", "trees a thousand zhang high, the leaves return to their roots", "". At home will not welcome guests, go out to know less master", "as long as the people are good, eat sweet potato soup is also sweet" ...... folk carvings, paintings, folk crafts and savory snacks with a local flavor, are drenched with a strong local Hakka people! Hakka people! Whether you migrate from the Central Plains to the southeast of the haze is not open to the barbaric land, or from the homeland to migrate to the thorns and thorns of foreign countries, you are always so high and vigorous, so perseverance, your heart is written in the "success" of the two words, your heart can not be found in the "failure" of the two words. The shadow of the word "failure" can not be found in your heart.

Hakka, why are you so strong as steel? This is because your heart carries a piece of traditional culture from the depths of the Central Plains stratum of black coal - burning humanistic ideals of the heavenly flame - illuminated all the Hakka sons and daughters of the road ahead. The heat emanating from this heavenly flame makes the land of China warm like spring, and the five continents and the four corners of the world warm like spring.

Yes, the Hakka people are the messengers of spring, the Hakka people no matter where they go, can open up a new spring. Hakka culture is the ancient Han culture bloomed on the old tree.

Chinese culture is glorious, far-reaching, like a grand scale, extraordinary symphony, and the Hakka culture is one of the heart-stopping colorful music. In the past, the traditional Hakka culture has created a batch of Hakka talents; today, the Hakka culture, glittering with the glory of humanistic ideals, feeds a new generation of Hakka children to thrive.

Hakka culture

The roots of traditional Hakka culture "Hakka where? The yellow descendants of Han people (zh怽plainu), three generations of survivors, living in the river, since the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, war and soldiers, the clothes south, through the Tang disaster, through the Song robbery, the book sent to the wilderness, Wicker Road to create the four industries, back to the origins of the millennium, said Hakka is not Hakka; where is the hometown? Counting the ancestors and sages, the old families of the Central Plains, they were transferred to Guangdong and Fujian, from the end of the Song Dynasty, they lived in peace and settled down in Meizhou, resumed the Ming Dynasty, followed by the Qing Dynasty, and moved to the border counties, and the butterflies and gourds (di bo plain) stretched out all over the five states, and the same root (d 媆 plain), and the four seas for the family is the family home." (Huang Huoxing: "A Long Couplet" from Hakka Cultural Studies, General Issue 1)

In the historically unprecedented national migration, countless trials and tribulations have refined the Hakka people's perseverance and fortitude. The sacred fire of the Central Plains civilization was ignited in all directions during the turbulent migrations; it burned in the misery of wandering. Perhaps it can be said that, if there is no Hakka people carrying the civilization of the Central Plains moved south, so that the ancient civilization can be maintained and continued, the Chinese civilization may be interrupted or even extinguished. Visible, the Hakka people is the oldest load of Chinese civilization, is the ancient Han "living fossil".

So, what is traditional culture? Traditional culture usually refers to the elements of culture that have existed steadily in the past, have been passed down to the present, and still play a role in the present. Hakka has its own traditional culture, is the inheritance and development of the Central Plains, the River Luo culture, which has a long history, historical migration and remote mountainous environment conditions, so that the formation of both the Han nationality and its own characteristics of the Hakka cultural tradition. Therefore, Hakka culture is a subculture of Han culture with folk color and regional characteristics.

River Luo culture is the root of Chinese culture, and also the root of Hakka culture. It is the core and symbol of Chinese culture, which was born from the traditional culture of ancient China in the Yellow River and River Luo region. It is the core and symbol of Chinese culture. It is the main vein of the most mature development of ancient Chinese culture, and it is the central axis, cradle and holy place of the cultural development of the Chinese nation. Hailuo culture has a long history and rich connotation. As early as in the Paleolithic Age, there were human beings living and engaging in production activities in the Hailuo area, and the Hailuo culture arose from this. In the Neolithic Age, the culture of Hailuo developed greatly. Hailuo was the first in the country to enter the age of civilization, and became the core of Chinese civilization for a long period of time. Chinese writing first arose in the He Luo region. The four major schools of Chinese academic thought, namely Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Reasoning, trace their origins back to the Heluo area. The four great inventions of China, papermaking and engraving, began in Luoyang. Zhang Heng made the "armillary sphere" and "geodesic instrument" in Luoyang, and Ma Jun of the Three Kingdoms invented the cart in Luoyang. The milestones in the history of literature, such as the articles of Han and Wei Dynasties, the literature of Western Jin Dynasty, the poems of Tang Dynasty, the great works of history and geography, as well as the paintings and calligraphy of famous artists, have all flourished in Luoyang in the past generations. Luoyang is the ancient capital of the millennium, the humanities, the wealth of things, on the ground and underground are retained countless cultural relics and monuments, the cultural pile layer of rich, in the country's top list.

The Gan, Ting, and Meijiang River basins in the Domain area are the most important territories for the formation of Hakka culture. Hakka research experts have summarized the formation and evolution of modern Hakka traditional culture as the "Three Rivers Culture" (i.e., Ganjiang, Tingjiang and Meijiang), indicating that the formation of Hakka traditional culture is closely related to the natural and social conditions of the Domain area.

"Three Rivers Culture" and its representatives. First, Ganjiang culture: mainly Song Dynasty culture, characterized by the culture formed in the Hakka settlements in Gannan, and its representatives are Hakka Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi and so on. Secondly, Ting River Culture: with the Hakka people migrating south to Ting Prefecture, Fujian Province, and experiencing the wars of Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ting River Culture was formed, and its representative figures are Li Shixiong, Liu Fang and so on. Third, Meijiang culture: the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a large number of Hakka people migrated south to Jiaying Prefecture to form one of the major Hakka camps in the eastern Guangdong Province, which became a cultural hometown and gave birth to the Meijiang culture, and its representative characters are Huang Zunxian, Qiu Fengjia and so on.

Hakka traditional culture has a long history, like a tree with green leaves. Her upright posture, bathed in the warmth of the sun in the South; her developed root system, y rooted in the Central Plains, the River Luo in the ancient soil. This is a tree standing in the East of the sacred soil of the great tree! This is a green reflecting the five continents and all over the world tree!

In China, due to the vastness of the country and the large number of ethnic groups, the language is very complex, and can be divided into five major language families: Sino-Tibetan, Altaic, South Island, South Asian, and Indo-European.

The Sino-Tibetan language family includes the Chinese language, which is the main language of China. The Hakka language is one of the eleven branches (dialects) of the Chinese language, so it also has four linguistic characteristics of the Chinese language: (1) monosyllabic: a word is the unit of language, and a word has only one syllable.

Therefore, a syllable is a linguistic unit of Hakka. Secondly, the complex tonal system: the tones of "flat, up, down, in, and oblique" are part of this tonal system.

Scholars believe that the tones probably evolved from the consonants at the end of the rhyme. Third, the clearing of velar consonants: In ancient Hakka, syllables with velar consonants were completely cleared after a long period of evolution; scholars can only find out their original appearance from the evolution of tones.

Fourth, less morphological changes: English has the so-called "lexical changes"; however, the lexical and grammatical functions of Chinese words all depend on the different order of their position in the sentence. However, after a long period of research by scholars, there is now a completely new and different way of saying this.

According to Mr. Jiang Yungui, the origin of the Hakka people is in the Central Plains, north of the Yellow River, where the ancient Hu people gathered, and the origin of Hakka dialect may be related to the Tungusic language of the primitive Altaic peoples (the primitive Altaic is an extinct language; the Turkish, Mongolian, and Tungusic languages are much later and much altered branches), and it may also be related to the Hakka language of the Chinese people, which is the first language in the world to be spoken in China, and it may be related to the Hakka language of the Chinese people. It is also one of the oldest languages in North China, which was probably born and evolved in the Central Plains of China.

Therefore, Hakka is not a branch of Mandarin Chinese, but a "Chineseized" language, which is why there is an uncommunicable difference between Hakka and Beijing Mandarin in China today. Hakka and Korean have some similarities (another challenge for linguists and historians on the origins of Hakka), but Hakka has chosen to use the Chinese script for more than a thousand years, and as a result, has not been able to develop further into a new language like Korean. Most of the Hakka people in Taiwan come from the eastern part of Guangdong Province, and there are three accents of Hakka that are more commonly heard: First, the "Four Counties" accent: the "Four Counties" refers to the four counties of Xingning, Wuhua, Pingyuan, and Jialing that belonged to Jiaying Prefecture, and whose government city at that time was the Meixian County of the present Guangdong Province.

Second, Hailu accent: "Hailu" refers to Haifeng and Lufeng counties in Huizhou. Third, Rao Ping: "Rao Ping" refers to Rao Ping County in Chaozhou, which is directly named after its ancestor.

Scholars and experts believe that there was initially only one Hakka dialect, the current four-county accent, which is a more pure and standardized Hakka dialect, because Xingning, Wuhua, Pingyuan, Jialing, and Meixian are pure Hakka counties; however, Haifeng and Lufeng counties are not pure Hakka counties, and there are a lot of Hakka (or Hailuo) people (or Hokkaido, Hailuo, or Southern Fujianese people) and the local indigenous people, and the mixing of these people has gradually changed the accent into Hailu accent. As a result of the mixing and remixing, the four counties have gradually transformed into the Hailu accent. The RaoPing accent, due to its geographic location, is characterized by a combination of the SiXian accent, the Hailu accent, and the HeLuo dialect.

In addition, there is also a "Zhao'an accent", which originated in Zhao'an County, Fujian Province (Yongding, the ancestral home of Lee Teng-hui and Wu Poh-hsiung). In the Hakka villages of Erlun, Lunbei, and Xiluo areas of Yunlin County, there were originally some speakers of the Zhao'an accent, but due to the surroundings by the Minnan group of languages, and lack of interaction with Hakka people from other areas, it led to serious "Hakkaization", and the Zhao'an accent has been gradually declining. In Taiwan, the Hakka language can be said to be dominated by the four-county accent, such as Kaohsiung and Pingtung's six piles of Hakka Zhuang, the earliest Hakka immigrants in Taiwan, most of whom came from the four counties of Jiaying State, so almost all of them have a four-county accent.

Hsinchu County, on the other hand, is almost entirely dominated by Haiku accents; Taoyuan County's Yangmei, Xinya, and Guanyin are also dominated by Haiku accents, but there are a lot of four-county accents as well. The Hakka dialect of overseas Chinese is still predominantly a four-county dialect.

As mentioned earlier, the ancestors of the Hakka people came from the Central Plains. Up to now, the Hakka society still maintains the real traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and possesses the language of the most ancient Central Plains, and we can still find a lot of ancient sounds in the Hakka dialect. For example, some of the rhymes used in the poems of the Classic of Poetry and Ch'u Ch'iu (詩经, Ch'u Ch'iu), which would be impossible to pronounce in the present-day Mandarin language, can be clearly distinguished in Hakka.

For example, in the Book of Songs, the words "Shuang", "Yong", and "From" rhyme.

For example, in the Book of Songs, the words "双", "庸", and "從" are rhymes.

Only in Hakka tongyong pinyin, the word "double" is pronounced as ㄧㄨㄥˊ, the word "yong" is pronounced as ㄧㄨㄥˊ, and the word "from" is pronounced as ㄘㄥˊ, and the three words are still in tongyong pinyin. According to scholarly research, the entire phonetic system of Hakka was established in the Song Dynasty.

In other words, the Hakka dialect has not changed much over the centuries, from the Song Dynasty to the present day. The Hakka dialect still contains many elements of the ancient "elegant language", and some of them are even more elegant than the current Mandarin.

In Hakka, for example, "I" is "吾" (痋 `), "you" is "若" (若), "他" is "其" (其), "日" (日) is "太阳", "镬头" (wok-tou) is "無", "沒有" is "无", "吃" is "食" (food) is "" (food) is "痋 `" (food) is "񵮌.

These are ancient "elegant words", commonly used in orthodox literature. However, there are also some interesting words in Hakka, and you can even get a glimpse of the personality, interests, and customs of the Hakka people from these commonly heard Hakka words in daily life.

Here are some interesting examples of Hakka words: Hakka's most common greeting - "Have you eaten? The Hakka people talk about "food" for both "eating" and "drinking". When they meet each other in the morning, the day (noon) and the night (evening), they always ask "Have you eaten? When we meet in the morning, we will always ask "Have you eaten?", which is more affectionate than "Good morning, good afternoon, good night" and expresses the concern of Hakka folks. In addition, there are other words like "school", "wife", "daughter-in-law", "eel", "flame", "firefly", "parents", "family", "mother", "father", "mother", "sin", "pity", "stubborn", "smart", "smart", "business", "dozing", "umbrella", "hat", and "sun".