The Origin of Hakka Songs?

Hakka songs are the most influential and important type of Hakka folk songs, which are sung in Hakka dialect, inheriting the traditional style of the Classic of Poetry, following the significant influence of Tang poetry and later bamboo lyrics, and at the same time absorbing the excellent components of folk songs from all over the south, forming a system of its own, with a unique style. In terms of subject matter, it includes labor songs, persuasive songs, industry songs, juggling songs, current affairs songs, ceremonial songs, love songs, life songs, children's songs, and guessing tunes, ditties, bamboo songs, etc. The songs are rich in tunes, mainly trumpets, dirges, and other tunes. The songs are rich in tunes, mainly including the trumpet song and the main board song, four lines and eight stanzas of the song, the quick board song, the stacked board song, the five lines of the board song, etc., with very beautiful melodies. The structure of the various lyrics is largely the same, with four lines per song, each line containing seven characters, and the first, second and fourth lines mostly rhyme with flat tone; they make good use of picaresque techniques, and are especially good at puns, and their language is vivid and colloquial, and their rhymes are catchy.

The Hakka people in the process of migration again and again, the formation of the "patriotic love for their homeland, respect for culture and education, honesty and perseverance, unity and tolerance, hard work, thrift and simplicity, pioneering and innovative and rigid and flexible" of the cultural and humanistic spirit of the culture and the spirit of the Chinese nation is hard-working, courageous, self-improvement, and strive to be strong and the essence of the tradition of excellence. These humanistic spirits of the Hakka people are fully reflected in the Hakka songs.

The main body of the Hakka people is originally from the late Tang Dynasty and the Jianghuai area in the two Song Dynasty, moved to the Min, Guangdong and Gan junction of the Han Chinese civilians and the descendants of the scholarly family, with the orthodox lineage of the Chinese scholarly family. Therefore, they inherited a strong sense of culture from the Central Plains and had a deep-rooted sense of psychological superiority. This sense of the scholars' clan has been firmly embedded in the immigrants and has been passed on to them. The pain of migration and the harsh environment of the mountainous regions have further forged the fortitude of the Hakka people. In order to survive, they had to rise up in the face of adversity; in order to develop, they had to improve their status to satisfy their subconscious sense of superiority. Thus, these Han Chinese people who spread to the south, very much respect for literature and education. Hakka ancestors on the one hand to farming life, on the one hand, through the fury of reading to enter the civil service. Therefore, the Hakka people generally have a sense of patriotism and love for their hometown, to build a career and seek development. This consciousness makes the Hakka people not only show infinite admiration and love to those heroes who have lived in history, but also show strong political ambition and patriotic passion in their own behavior. As sung in the mountain song: "The moon is bright, round and tinkling; to fight Japan, I love to use guns; guns are too difficult, use bombs; bombs are expensive, knives are too sharp; knives are too sharp, two or three knots"; "A life is like a red candle, with a minute of heat and a minute of light; to build up a career and pass it on to the next generation, although life is short and meaningful"; "Life is like a red candle, with one point of heat and one point of light. Life is like a tree of plums, which blossoms through snow in November and February; it is not a plum tree that is not afraid of freezing, but wants to report spring for the world"; "Life is like a lamp, which is bright day and night when oil is added; a lamp without oil goes out by itself, and a person without ambition will be depressed." This kind of song not only shows the patriotic love of the Hakka people's passion for their hometown, but also in the form of a metaphor, the community as their own responsibility, said the Hakka people's sense of social responsibility, educate the future generations must set up a grand ambition, in order to rise up to become a great thing. For this reason, the Hakka people often educate future generations: "People do not read without culture, chicken feathers on the scale, people look down"; "showman is not afraid of long shirt broken, for fear of the belly is not a little goods."

The Hakka ancestors, during their long migrations and travels, forged a hardworking and frugal, adventurous and innovative personality, as well as a pragmatic and optimistic spirit. This is fully reflected in the Hakka songs. For example, "The vine is broken by its own gabions, and the boat goes to the beach to open the water way" shows the optimism and rationality of the Hakka people. The song "I advise you not to be bitter in your heart, a lot of worries will hurt your body; don't raise others to see you as a lowly person, and put up your hair braid to be a winner" advises people to be relaxed to eliminate their sorrows, which expresses their relaxed mindset and optimistic spirit in the face of adversity. And a song "people say the wind blows the flowers to the ground, I want the wind to blow the flowers on the branch, pro will be yellow wax sticky flowers to go, to the old age when no flowers fall", the Hakka people optimistic, positive, tough, persistent spirit of psychological performance.

The Hakka people's toughness is witnessed, if there is no such spiritual temperament, there is no migratory perseverance, no thorns and thorns of courage, no five lakes and all over the world of the blossoming and spreading of branches. This spirit of perseverance in the struggle for survival is expressed in their mountain songs, which read, "Blowing the trumpet and carrying the gun, so many soldiers do not mourn. So many officers are filial sons, and their hearts are cold even when they die in the netherworld." The song is a generous and impassioned one, and the song "Singing Mountain Songs with the mouth" is a great example of this. And "Singing mountain songs with my mouth and feet, my voice flies into the clouds in the sky. I'm not afraid of the evils of heaven, the harvest depends on the fire", which expresses the fearlessness of meeting the challenge of destiny, holding the throat of destiny, and ignoring even the "heaven". As for the mountain songs that express self-improvement, they also abound: "Plums are not afraid of frost and snow; the more frost and snow hit them, the more they bloom" and "If you have the heart, you are not afraid of drifting in the river; bamboo branches are used as paddles and leaves are used as boats". At the same time, tolerance, peace and harmony are also one of the characteristics of the Hakka people, which is expressed in the Hakka songs by the gentle and subtle expression and the soft and harmonious tone. For example, "To be a moon, we need to be a fifteen-month period; to be a spring, we need to be a four-season spring; to be a rain, we need to be a continuous rain; to be a man, we need to be a lover"; "There is still a day when the dead wood meets the spring, and there are no two times when a man turns into a teenager". In the comparison and pun, it contains the richness of their temperament of seeing softness in the rigidity.

The Hakka songs are a profound and beautiful artistic expression of the Hakka people's ethnic psychology and spiritual tradition. To understand and appreciate the Hakka people and their culture, Hakka songs are the most convenient and effective means.

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