Traditional ke

Hakka people are very hospitable, especially Meizhou, the world's guest capital! Hakka tradition

As the descendants of the ancient Central Plains people, Hakkas have inherited the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, which can be summarized as diligence, hospitality, respect for teachers and education, and patriotism and love for their hometown. Hakka people moved from the Central Plains to Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Because the plain area has been occupied by aborigines, they can only settle in barren mountainous areas, so life is hard and they must struggle. Hakka people's pioneering spirit and self-control ability are also outstanding. Hakka women, in particular, are famous all over the world for their diligence and virtue, excellent farm work and housework, and particularly strong family values, and are known as "iron men"; As immigrants, the early Hakkas lived in sparsely populated, backward and remote mountainous areas, and their psychological needs for interpersonal communication and solidarity were particularly strong. Although their life is hard, they have developed a cultural tradition of hospitality. Hakka ancestors "traveled south" from the Central Plains, mostly from "scholarly families", so they had a high cultural quality and always attached importance to cultural education. Among them, Meizhou has the most outstanding performance and is known as the "hometown of culture".

guangdong hanchu opera

Guangdong Han Opera used to be called "Waijiang Opera" and "Xingmei Han Opera", and 1933 was renamed as Han Opera. Popular in Meixian, Shantou, northeastern Guangdong and the border areas of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi. During the period from Yongzheng to Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, Huizhou Opera was introduced into Guangdong and formed. The performances of Guangdong Han Opera are similar to those of Beijing Opera, xiang opera, Qi Opera and Hubei Han Opera, but they also have their own characteristics and styles. His martial arts belong to the southern school, and there are more than 100 kinds of facial makeup, mainly black, red and white. Black symbolizes courage, red symbolizes loyalty and virtue, and white and cyan symbolize insidiousness and treachery. The musical vocals of Guangdong Han Opera are mainly Pihuang, including Kunqu Opera, Gaoqiang Opera, Blowing Opera and Minor. Many ancient tunes have been preserved. Simple and honest, high-pitched and solemn are the inherent style characteristics of Guangdong Han opera music singing. His roles are divided into nine categories: Catholic, Old Student, Xiao Sheng, Lao Dan, Zheng Dan, Hua Dan, Red Mirror, Wu Mirror and Clown. Its accompaniment instruments are also quite distinctive. Killer, Dasu Gong and Horn are unique accompaniment instruments of Guangdong Han Opera. There are more than 800 traditional China dramas in Guangdong. The famous ones are Wang Qi Qiu Jiang, the wife of Priscilla, and a bag of wheat, a modern drama.

Hakka dialect

Hakka dialect is a dialect centered on Meixian dialect. Mainly distributed in eastern Guangdong and northern Guangdong, about 20 counties and cities in the province belong to Hakka dialect areas. It is based on Meixian dialect, because Meixian dialect has great influence and clear language. Hakka dialect is also a Chinese dialect formed in ethnic migration. Before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the ancestors of Hakkas lived in the Central Plains. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, various wars and natural disasters occurred in the Central Plains, and Hakka ancestors had to move south. Some moved to Hubei, Hunan and other places, and then left the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in the late Tang Dynasty, and some went further south to Jiangxi and Fujian. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song and Yuan Dynasties were at war, and the world was in chaos. Hakka ancestors further migrated to Guangdong and gradually settled in eastern Guangdong. In the Song Dynasty, the household registration was divided into the principal account and the customer, and the latter was called the customer. In the process of immigration, because he stayed in Hunan and Hubei for nearly 400 years, he did not enter Guangdong until the Tang and Song Dynasties, so his dialect was closer to Hunan and Hubei. Among the four major dialects in Guangdong, it is also the smallest difference from Mandarin. Hakka dialect has six tones, divided into yin and yang, regardless of the upper and lower, and retains six ancient vowels. There is a great difference in pronunciation between written and spoken language. In addition, Hakka ancestors originally used northern dialects, but after living in Guangdong, they gradually disappeared under the influence of different Cantonese dialects and geographical and historical environments.

Celebrate Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the full moon night on the first day of the first lunar month, symbolizing happiness. The vast number of overseas Chinese meet immortals. Playing gongs and drums, dancing golden lions, welcoming lanterns and burning fireworks, and praying for a good weather, abundant crops and all the best in the new year. Puzhai Town, Fengshun County welcomes gongs and drums, and burns "smoke racks" and "fire dragons" on the night of Lantern Festival. It has a long reputation and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. It is said that Puzhai has been burning fire dragons for two or three hundred years. At first, sulfur, white nitrate and charcoal were not made into gunpowder, but were detonated as rockets, sparks and plows. After hundreds of years of continuous evolution, the number of tobacco racks has developed from five or seven to thirteen today, reaching more than ten meters. The fire dragon has developed from three or four sections to eleven sections today, with a length of more than 30 meters. And the use of colorful fireworks, the performance is strange, thrilling and spectacular. Three salutes were fired in the square. In the sound of gongs and drums, the dragon dance began. Hundreds of young people waved torches and ran barefoot. More than 20 strong men held up five-meter faucets, guided by hydrangeas, and nearly 100 brave men roamed the square with "golden carp", "lobster" and "Olympic fish". The elders lit the kindling rope, and after Longkou spit out the golden beads, the fire dragons in each section released colorful sparks, and the rockets roared in the air in various colors. Dragon dancers churned in the sea of fire, and the scene was spectacular. Now, Puzhai Fire Dragon has leapt to Jieyang, Meixian and Shenzhen. People's Pictorial, CCTV and more than a dozen other newspapers and radio stations all reported this.

Finally, as a Meizhou native, I am honored to answer your question. Welcome to Meizhou!