Hakka Folklore

Hakka Folklore:

1, do tea fruit

Whenever the big time before the big festival, such as the Spring Festival, Ching Ming, Mid-Autumn Festival, the female elders in the family will like to get together to do tea fruit, "patty cake", "sweet skin and salty filling", The female elders of the family used to get together to make tea fruits, such as "mochi", "sweet and salty stuffed rice cakes", "happy acquaintance", "Indian acquaintance", and so on. Nowadays, this scene is becoming more and more rare, and then in our next generation, it is expected that we will only be able to reproduce this cozy scene from photos and postcards.

2. Wedding ceremonies

The Hakka people's wedding customs are the most complicated, and at the same time, they are the ones that have preserved Chinese traditions the best. For example, before the bride enters her husband's house, her head is covered with a "rice sieve", which means "rice sieve on top of the head of a thousand eyes, a house full of brothers and uncles to do the official return, a house full of brothers and uncles to make money back". Don't think this is the old-fashioned way of doing things, even the music world king David Tao when he got married, his wife had to top a "rice sieve" before entering the door.

3, worship mountain ancestor

The Hakka people pay the most attention to ancestor worship, the local abbreviation is "hanging paper". In the past, they used to worship in the fall, but nowadays there are also two sacrifices in spring and fall. Ancestor worship is generally the first to sweep the graves of the founding ancestors and distant ancestors, in which case the whole clan or the whole village are mobilized, the scale is grand, the team is often less than a few hundred or more than a thousand people; after that, the room to sweep the graves of the ancestors of the room, and finally, each family to sweep the private graves of the family.

4, festive dinner

Hakka people like to be lively, especially between relatives of the party quite a lot, so when we were young, we have such memories, we went to the ancestral hall to eat "dinner". As long as you bring your own chopsticks and bowls and stools, you can eat as much as you like, and the rich local flavor is very nostalgic.

5, Spring Lantern

Year 12 on the lamp, in the custom of the Hakka people, the lamp resonates with the "Ding", that is, a good omen of additional children. After the Spring Festival before the Lantern, where the birth of a son of the family will buy lanterns to light up, if organized in the ancestral temple, but also to the collective light, is "on the lamp".

Expanded information:

1, the Hakka people by Confucianism, in the process of moving south of the war in the battle for survival, survival, and figure the accumulation of cultural and psychological awareness, the Hakka people in the life of the great importance of the color, or omen.

2, the Hakka people run stores, factories, the name of the general into the use of Chang, Long, Xing, Li, Qin, and, and Feng, hair, Sheng, Mao and other words, its meaning can be imagined.

3, reading for a way out, is the Hakka generations of fashion, many elementary school names such as Qiyu, Yumin, Peiyi, Wende, Xuanming, Peiying, four Yu, Zhongxing, Wenfeng, etc., are included in the wish to become a success, the beginning of each year the day of the opening of the school, the parents have to give reading to the children to eat celery, onions, garlic, chicken, eggs, etc. Celery Lai Harmonization diligent, onions Harmonization smart, garlic Harmonization can count, chicken Harmonization good (health), eggs (also known as chicken spring) harmonic spring.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Hakka Customs