Legends about Hakka women

In the Meizhou region of China, a legend about a Hakka woman has been passed down for nearly a thousand years. During the Southern Song Dynasty, an emperor fleeing south was chased by enemies from the north. When the emperor fled to Meizhou, he could already see the smoke and dust raised by his pursuers' iron horses. In such a life-and-death situation, the emperor was saved by a group of Hakka women who went up the mountain to cut firewood. After the emperor escaped from danger, in return for the Hakka women, the women of this place after death, all sealed as a Ru Ren. The Hakka women have a poem for the descendants: men with dry arms and women armor, eight thousand sons and daughters to go to the King.

In the history of the Hakka people, Hakka women not only bear the responsibility of the family in the family, they also walk with big feet to the battlefield. In the Peasants' Revolt Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the famous Women's Battalion was made up of Hakka women. These Hakka women, whom Zeng Guofan called big-footed barbarian women, were ordained by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the hundreds after it settled in Nanjing.

Alright - send Lang when the Red Army, the sister also revolution - in the history of the Chinese Revolution, Hakka women are for the birth of a new China has left many touching stories and immortal legend. Back then, the seat of the Chinese Soviet was in the Hakka region of Gannan. The Hakka women sent almost all the young and strong Hakka men to the Red Army with the ideal of the poor people to turn over a new leaf. The Long March of the Red Army, which started from Ruijin, went away amidst the songs and tears of countless Hakka women bidding farewell.

On the Long March, the vast majority of Hakka sons and daughters never came back, but the Hakka women remained persistent in their vigilance, and they have been supported by their own beliefs into the future. In Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, a Hakka bride who had been married for only 16 days kept watch over her husband for 60 years after sending him to the Red Army. Until today, she will often sit on the threshold and look at the road home, her eyes can pass through a century of wind and rain and see her Lang when he left home.