The ancestors of the Hakka people are the Han people from the Central Plains who were originally from Henan. They are a Han ethnic group with distinctive characteristics and one of the ethnic groups with the widest distribution range and the most far-reaching influence of the Han ethnic group in the world. Meizhou and Huizhou in Guangdong, Ganzhou in Jiangxi, and Tingzhou in Fujian are known as the four major Hakka states in China. The populations of these four major states are mainly composed of Hakkas, and they are truly "Hakka states".

Hakka, also known as the Hakka ethnic group, is a Han ethnic group with distinctive characteristics. It is also one of the Han ethnic groups with the widest distribution and the most far-reaching influence in the world. It is now concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hunan, Taiwan, Hainan, Fujian and parts of Hong Kong.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the Hakkas migrated from the Fujian-Guangdong border area centered on Meizhou to the southern provinces, Southeast Asia and other parts of the world, and eventually became an important ethnic group of the Han nation that spreads all over the world and has unique humanities. Department of ethnic groups.

According to estimates by relevant scholars, there are about 20 million Hakkas in the world, of which about 10 million are distributed in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Hainan, Zhejiang, etc. in mainland China. About 1 million people are distributed in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

About 5 million people are distributed in more than 80 countries and regions including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the United States, Peru, and Mauritius except China.

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. However, over the long years, the Hakka people have been displaced and experienced hardships. They have continuously integrated with the local indigenous residents and evolved. and developed into a large ethnic group with a population of tens of millions.