What is Hakka? What does Hakka mean

Hakka is one of the Han ethnic groups, Hakka literally refers to foreign households, and in ancient times it was the title of all Hakka Han people. Hakka ** in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Northern and Southern Dynasties period of the customer system and the Tang and Song dynasties customer system.

The Hakka ancestors began in the Qin Dynasty and the Lingnan Rong Baiyue period, and the Han people who gradually moved south in the Song Dynasty formed the Hakka people on the Sanjiang Plain formed by the impact of the Ganjiang, Tingjiang and Meijiang rivers, and developed into the main Hakka settlements such as Ganzhou, Tingzhou (now belonging to Longyan and Sanming), Meizhou, Heyuan, Huizhou Qiaoyu, Shaoguan and Shenzhen.

The Hakka people were formed later than the southern Han peoples, and they were not formed in the same administrative region, but in the connecting areas of the three provinces. In addition to the indigenous people, there are also outsiders such as Shanke, Muke, and Sheke, who mixed with the later Han Ke and merged for a long time, giving birth to a group of people with unique language and cultural characteristics, and these people are called guests, customers, and Hakka by the local hosts.

Hakka is not only a title of the Han people, but also a cultural concept. Hakka culture has the reputation of living fossils of ancient Han culture, Hakka language is a living fossil of ancient Chinese, and can correspond to the pronunciation of ancient rhyme books such as "Cut Rhyme", "Tang Rhyme", "Guang Rhyme" and "Ji Rhyme", and retain a large number of literary words, such as the pronunciation of Hakka You, I, He is Er, I, and its ancient pronunciation. Hakka is a prominent science in today's world.

By 2017, there were 3 national-level Hakka cultural and ecological protection experimental areas.

Hakka is one of the Han ethnic groups, the only one that is not named after a region, and is one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic systems in the world. The title Hakka originated from the customer system during the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the customer system in the Tang and Song dynasties; In ancient times, it originally referred to all Hakka Han people, such as the northern Mandarin people who moved into Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty, and they are still called Hakka.

Origin of the name: The Hakka saying originated in the Siyi area of Guangdong, and was a name for the ethnic groups that migrated from the eastern Guangdong region (also known as the Huichao people) by the Siyi ethnic group in the Qing Dynasty at that time. In the old days, the elders in the Hakka area in the south called themselves Fuguang, Lingdong or Xunzhou, Jiaying, Tingzhou, Shaozhou, and Qianzhou, or directly named after the local county.

The term Hakka later became widely known due to Luo Xianglin's Hakka doctrine, and gradually became the name of the ethnic group, and many people began to accept it happily, calling themselves Hakka Nanian family, but there are still many areas that do not know this title. The term Hakka originated from the name of Hui, Chao, Jia, and Shao immigrants (who were already natives of eastern and northern Guangdong at that time) by the people of western Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty.

Hakka culture is a very important part of the cultural element in China. So what is Hakka, and why are Hakka called Hakka?

The origin of the Hakka people.

He lived in the Yellow River Valley, and in the late years of the Western Jin Dynasty (early 4th century) and the late Tang Dynasty (late 9th century), a large number of people went south due to war. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty in 1270, it moved to Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

Calling themselves "Hakka" or "Lairen" to distinguish them from the locals. Because they are residents who moved in later, they are Hakka people compared to the residents who moved in earlier and the local aborigines, so they are called Hakka people.

Why are Hakka people called Hakka?

The origin of the Hakka title The formation of the Hakka people in the triangle of Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong has made the southeast corner of Chixian dazzling and full of vitality. The Hakka base camp full of magic and mystery and colorful proudly declares to the world: there is a group of people with Yanhuang blood flowing in their blood, who are diligently sowing seeds and cultivating Chinese civilization, and the name of this group of people is "Hakka".

So, how did the Hakka title come about? Mr. Wang Li, a famous linguist, believes in "Chinese Rhymes" that "Hakka means 'guest' or 'outsider', therefore, Hakka is a foreigner." It can be seen that Hakka is a symmetry relative to the "lord" (indigenous), and the Hakka "guest" means outsider.

Hakka and home", as a guest in a foreign country, and take it as a home, that is, Hakka. The word "Hakka" generally reflects the historical experience of the Hakka people who are always and everywhere and the generosity and open-mindedness of "calling themselves guests". "People are blessed with ambitions in all directions, and you can set up a standing program everywhere.

In the depths of the year, I am in a different realm, and I am in a foreign country, which is my hometown. "This is a song that has been circulated in the Hakka region for a long time. This ballad reflects the historical experience of the Hakka people who are far away from their homeland and away from home, and shows the spiritual outlook of the Hakka people who are at peace with their encounters and have a broad heart.

The generosity of "being in a foreign country is the hometown" shows the heroic spirit of the Hakka people who "are guests and call themselves guests". Without this kind of heroism, how could the Hakka people be proud to be called or call themselves "guests"? Hakka, this resounding name, makes Hakka descendants proud and proud.

The formation process of the Hakka ethnic system allows people to clearly see the formation and development process of the Chinese nation; The Hakka spiritual culture of the Hakka people reflects the profound and long-standing civilization of the Chinese nation.