What is Hakka food? Does it belong to Cantonese cuisine? Hakka cuisine belongs to Cantonese cuisine. An important part of Han diet culture is mainly popular in Shenzhen, Huizhou, Heyuan, Meizhou and other places in Guangdong. Ganzhou, Jiangxi; Longyan, Sanming and Zhangzhou in Fujian; Hezhou and Yulin, Guangxi; Taiwan Province Province, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County and other places. The formation of Hakka food culture is closely related to the formation of ancient Hakkas. For example, like Hakka dialect, Hakka cuisine also retains the traditional customs of Zhongzhou.
Hakka cuisine plays an important role in China cooking with its unique flavor. Among the three major schools of Cantonese cuisine, both Guangzhou cuisine and Chaozhou cuisine experienced the stage of "Han-Cantonese integration" after Qin Dynasty, while Dongjiang cuisine did not.
This is because in the process of migration, Hakkas have experienced difficulties and obstacles, many groups have organized migration, and the whole village has migrated. After moving to Dongjiang Valley in Guangdong, they lived in a large area, including most areas of Heyuan, Huizhou and Meizhou, as well as small areas such as Dongguan, Qingyuan, Yingde and Qujiang. In such a relatively vast area, the proportion of Hakkas is relatively large, and their living habits are not easily assimilated by local aborigines, but they have assimilated local living habits, including the different living habits of many people who moved here from different regions. Therefore, the flavor of dishes, as the characteristics of the ancient Central Plains, is naturally preserved.
The second reason is that, in terms of geographical conditions and products, Dongjiang area is close to the Central Plains, the ancestral home of Hakka, and both of them belong to the inland hinterland, far from the sea. Non-staple food for cooking is livestock and game, and seafood is rare. Hakka cuisine has the saying that "no chicken is not clear, no meat is not fresh, no duck is not fragrant, and no elbow is not thick". Therefore, the long-standing characteristics of Hakka cuisine can be preserved and continued. In addition, it is also related to the closed traffic environment of Dongjiang. As eastern Guangdong is a mountainous area with inconvenient transportation and little external influence, Hakka cuisine has formed itself and evolved itself for a long time.