What is Hakka?

Hakka, a Han nationality whose mother tongue is Hakka, is an important part of local residents in China, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and Taiwan Province provinces. Hakka, as an ancient Han immigrant group in the south, is one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic groups in the world. ?

Hakka originated in Qin Zheng Lingnan Rongbaiyue period and developed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties. At the latest in the Southern Song Dynasty, a relatively stable ethnic group-Hakkas was formed.

The origin of the word Hakka, the word "Hakka" means that "Hakka" comes from immigrants, so it is called "Hakka" because all Hakka ancestors have moved here. The home is fixed, and the Hakkas moved to the local area to build a fixed residence for the "home". So "Hakkas" are people who have moved to live in the local area.

Extended data

1. After thousands of years of migration, Hakkas are distributed in most southern provinces and cities, Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong, and some overseas areas. Today, the cities that belong to Hakka base camp refer to Meizhou, Huizhou, Heyuan, Shenzhen and Shaoguan in Guangdong Province, Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province and Longyan in Fujian Province, a total of seven cities.

2. As Hakkas are immigrants relative to the local people, they are often rejected by the local people when they move south. In order to seek self-defense, the Central Plains people who moved south joined groups to build houses with certain defensive functions-enclosed houses. Fences are usually round or square and are several stories high. A pond was dug in front of the house, which was used for saving lives and drinking water in an emergency.

3. Hakkas are persistent and persistent in distant native "homes", such as Zuxian and Zuyuan, because that is the source of their life and the spiritual source of their survival. Without her, Hakka people can't stick to their cultural boundaries and are in danger of being assimilated and swallowed up in the new environment.

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Hakka (Han branch)