Hakka culture

source: Updated: 2016-10-31

 

Hakka culture is diversified with traditional cultures from Han nationality as the main body and aboriginal cultures from She, Yao and other nationalities. It's concrete and genuine with no affectation.

Compared with the Hakka culture in western Fujian and eastern Guangdong, that in Gannan attracts the attention worldwide by its long history and wide-ranging contents. It contains historical cultural relics and various cultures in surname gens, dialect, residence, food, costume, folk custom, folk arts and so on.

Gannan Hakkas have created outstanding achievement and brilliant culture in the course of city exploit and construction. The abundant historical cultural relics around Gannan are the best proof.

With a great sense of ancestor worship, the Hakka are religious in Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. The religious culture is fully reflected by the ancestral temple and the genealogy. The ancestral temple is a compound product of the Hakka's flourish and sense of ancestor worship, and is established for the surname in every natural village. For some surnames, there are branch and subsidiary temples besides the main one. For example, the surname of Lu in Nanling Village Luokou Town Ningdu County has one main ancestral temple, four subsidiary ones and two branch ones. The surname of Huang in Yingqian Town Shangyou County owns four subsidiary temples besides the main one. There are many ancestral temples that were built in Ming and Qing dynasties exist around Gannan, represented by the surname of Qi's in Xiafu Village Ganxian, the surname of Qiu's in Ling Village Luokou Town Ningdu and the surname of Dong's in Fenggang Nankang, etc. Those temples are magnificent in scale and elegant in the construction design. What's more, with rich culture, ancestral temples are the best material resources for researching the ancient family culture and the spiritual carrier for Hakka descendants at home and abroad to find their roots.