Why do the Hakka people call their ethnic group Hakka?

Updated on culture 2024-02-09
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    First of all, the Hakka people are not an ethnic minority, but a different branch formed by the Han people in the Central Plains who went south to avoid disasters during wars and natural disasters. Secondly, the origin of the Hakka name, in the ancient Central Plains Chinese (Hokkien dialect, Hakka) "guest" is called "Renke", because the Han people of the Central Plains moved south to the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi regions and regarded themselves as foreign guests, so they are called "Hakka". The official appearance of "Hakka" was about the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and now it is called the Hakka people, the Hakka group, and the Hakka people.

    The four Hakka states are Meizhou, Huizhou, Tingzhou, and Ganzhou. The Ningshi Fossil Wall in Fujian Province is the central area for the formation of Hakka legends and is known as the "Hakka ancestral land". Changting, Fujian Province is one of the main footholds of the Hakka people who moved south, so Changting is known as the "Hakka capital".

    Meizhou, Guangdong is known as the "Hakka Capital of the World" because it is one of the most important Hakka settlements, and Heyuan, Guangdong is known as the "Hakka Ancient Town" for thousands of years. And because most of the Hakka overseas Chinese are from Huizhou Mansion in Guangdong, Huizhou is also known as the "Hakka Overseas Chinese Capital". Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province is the earliest concentration of Hakka people to move south, so it is called the "cradle of Hakka".

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    It is said that a long time ago, the Hakka people migrated from the Central Plains to the current Hakka settlement, at that time they were the guests of the **, so they called themselves Hakka, and over time it spread, and the Hakka dialect is the most orthodox Han language at present.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    The Hakka people moved south during the war in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and began to become a group of residents with a "special identity", and in the later migrations, they gradually formed the Hakka people with a unique style today, so they are called Hakka. The Hakka people are a branch of the Han ethnic group in China.

    The most obvious feature of the Hakka people is that they speak Hakka, which is one of the eight major dialects of the Han people. Historically, the Hakka people have had five major southward migrations, with a record of a delay of 1,500 years. At present, there are about 45 million Hakka people in the world.

    Among them, 40 million people are in China and about 5 million people are abroad. The Hakka people overseas are widely distributed, and the more concentrated ones are in Southeast Asia, where Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and internationally renowned writer Han Suyin are both Hakka. There are 17 provinces and 185 cities and counties in China, of which 50 are pure Hakka counties with more than 95% of the Hakka people, and the most concentrated places of Hakka people are southern Jiangxi, southern Fujian and northeastern Guangdong.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    The reasons for calling the Hakka people are as follows:

    1) First of all"Hakka"The origin of the term is related to the historical context. According to research,"Hakka"This term first appeared during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, referring to the people who migrated from the Central Plains to the south and formed a unique cultural system there. These immigrants are called because of their status as distinct from the local indigenous population"Guests", which later evolved"Hakka"。

    2) Secondly,"Hakka"This term has a dual meaning of region and ethnicity. The Hakka people are mainly distributed in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hunan, Taiwan and other provinces. They have unique cultural traditions and dialects, and because of their early immigration, they have less contact with the outside world, forming a relatively closed community.

    Therefore, the term "Hakka" can be used to describe the regional and ethnic characteristics of this community.

    3) Finally,"Hakka"This title is the way the Hakka people name themselves. In Hakka culture, it is important to trace family history and clan relationships, and many people will be proud of their family name or clan origin, so calling themselves "Hakka" is also a way of self-identification.

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  5. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Hakka (Han ethnic group) generally refers to Hakka (Han ethnic group). The title Hakka originated from the customer system during the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the customer system during the Tang and Song dynasties. Immigrants who are naturalized are all incorporated into Hakka nationality, and Hakka people are called Hakka people.

    Hakka is the only ethnic line that is not named after a region, and it is one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic groups in the world. Legend has it that during the Yongjia period at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, a part of the Han people in the Yellow River Basin migrated south to cross the river due to war, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, they crossed the river in large numbers to Jiangxi, Fujian, eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong and other places, and were called "Hakka", in order to distinguish themselves from the original local residents, and then became the self-name of this part of the Han people. The Hakka people are distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Taiwan, parts of Hainan Island and overseas Chinese living in Nanyang.

    The Hakka language retains more ancient Chinese pronunciation, called "Hakka". In the current linguistic research, Hakka has also become the most important research material for the study of ancient Chinese.

  6. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    The title Hakka originated from the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties period to give this Hui consumer system, and the Tang and Song dynasties of the customer system, immigrants and naturalized people are compiled into the Hakka nationality, and the Hakka people are called Hakka.

  7. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    The Hakka people are a Han ethnic group with distinctive characteristics, and they are also one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic groups of the Han nationality in the world. The Hakka language they use belongs to a branch of the Cantonese dialect of Chinese, and it is the native family of the Hakka people among the seven major dialects of Chinese. The origin of the word Hakka is said in a variety of ways, one is because the Hakka ancestors, originally had an elegant and tolerant spirit, in the more than 2,000 years of migration history, in order to survive, to fight, in order to reproduce, always in a state of full armament, its elegant and tenacious spiritual temperament, can be said to be an innate natural temperament; Another theory believes that the title of "Hakka" is related to the She people, and that a part of the ancestors of the She people in the Tang Dynasty was placed in a circle of Fenghuang Mountain (or Wulong Cave) in Chaozhou, Guangdong, and the local habit called them "Hakka Song Yuan", which means "customers", and the She people called them "grain customers" and "customers", from which the title of "Hakka" came from.

    Regarding the origin of the Hakka people, there are various theories in the academic circles. Among them, the proponents of the Hakka Central Plains theory believe that the Hakka people are formed after the integration of the Han people who moved south in the Central Plains due to wars and other reasons, and the indigenous people of the Dangye land, and most of them have obvious commonalities in language, ancestor worship, tradition, and living area. Historically, the Hakka people have migrated south several times, eventually settling in the vast area bordering eastern Guangdong, western Fujian, and southern Jiangxi.

    In this process, they not only retained the essence of the Central Plains culture, but also borrowed from the local aborigines to form a unique Hakka culture.

    In short, the name "Hakka" originates from many reasons, which are not only related to the foreign population, but also closely related to the local cultural background and historical background.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    This friend, you are celebrating in Guangdong!!

    Because this word generally appears a little more in Guangdong!! This has something to do with the migration of ancient peoples to the south and their separation!

    Guangdong is generally divided into three provinces: Cantonese people (mainly speaking Cantonese), Chaofu people (mainly speaking the languages of various branches of Chaoshan), and Hakka people (Hakka dialect is similar to Mandarin and evolved from the language).

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