Gannan Hakka enclosed houses are typical Hakka houses. They are widely distributed in southern Jiangxi and are mainly square enclosed houses. "Guanxi enclosed house" is an outstanding representative of Hakka residents.
"Guanxi Xinwei" refers to 25 kilometers away from Longnan County, Jiangxi Province. It was built by Xu Mingjun, a famous gentleman in the Qing Dynasty. It started in the third year of Jiaqing (1798) in the Qing Dynasty and was completed in the seventh year of Daoguang (1827). , built after 29 years. Guanxi Xinwei covers an area of ??more than 7,800 square meters, with a construction area of ??11,477 square meters. It is the largest in the world. It is the most complete, largest and most functional Hakka square dwelling in China. It is a nine-building and eighteen-hall building that is praised by the Hakka people. The palace-style architecture is known as "the ancient Roman castle in the East, the living fossil of the tungsten fortress of the Han and Jin Dynasties" and "the royal palaces scattered among the people".
The ancient Hakka buildings and simple Hakka customs have created a rich and unique Guanxi Hakka culture. Kansai Village is located between the small basins of Kansai Cave, with a Kansai River in the center that winds from north to south. The green peak stands in the east, the ancient pagoda protects the west, the east mountain rises in the south, and the Guanshui flows in the north. It is surrounded by mountains and water. It has a beautiful natural shape and covers an area of ??about 2 square kilometers. The Hakka culture of the Guanxi Hakka enclosed houses combines "ancient" and "green" to show the world its unique and charming Hakka culture of "the integration of civil and military affairs, the integration of farming and reading, the integration of government and business, and the integration of village enclosures".
“Large-scale, large-space, and large-capacity, it integrates residences, castles, religious beliefs, conference halls, and central squares. Residential houses with such magnificent functions are rare in the world. It encompasses almost everything in human life. Looking at the fenced houses is like reading an architectural textbook. This is the emotion expressed by Keiichiro Shigeru and Kazutoshi Katayama, architecture professors in Tokyo, Japan after inspecting the fenced houses in Kansai. In the eyes of ordinary people, the Hakka people are immigrants, a branch of the Han people from the north who migrated to the south. Over the long years, they have been displaced, experienced hardships, and continuously integrated with the local indigenous residents to form, evolve and develop thousands of people. A large ethnic group with a population of 10,000.
Hakka customs generally include national traditional festivals, local worship, etiquette, etc. These mainly include traditional festival customs, wedding customs, wedding customs, Hakka wine customs, etc. Since there is a lot of content, I can’t explain it clearly here. I will give you two URLs with more detailed introductions. I hope they will be helpful to you.