1, Tianchuan Festival
Tianchuan Festival, called "Tianchuan Day" by Hakka people, is a traditional folk festival in Hakka areas. There is a saying among Hakkas that the New Year is not over until it is "worn by the sky". To celebrate "daily wear", Hakkas have some main customs, such as "making up for daily wear" of pancakes, shooting arrows in daily wear, and sticking needles in sweet buns to commemorate this long-standing Lunar New Year festival.
2. Shicheng Lantern Festival
Shicheng Lantern Festival is a traditional Hakka folk cultural activity integrating lanterns, dance and music. Mainly spread in towns and villages in Shicheng County, Ganzhou City. In Shicheng dialect, lanterns and dancing lanterns have the meaning of wishing people prosperity and celebrating good luck. Every year, from the first day of the first lunar month, people will spontaneously organize a country trip and dance lanterns before the "Xie Deng" Lantern Festival.
3. Laigong Temple Fair
Laigong Temple Fair is widely circulated among Huichang people. Every year, the sixth day of the seventh lunar month is the day to celebrate Laigong's birthday in Huichang urban and rural areas, and a grand temple fair is held from the fifth day to the eighth day of the seventh lunar month. The theme of the temple fair is to offer sacrifices to the gods and entertain them. Activities mainly include offering prayers, worshipping gods, entertainment and tasting Hakka snacks.
4. Gannan Hakka plaque custom.
Hakka plaque custom in southern Jiangxi was gradually formed with the gentry of Central Plains migrating to southern Jiangxi, which spread all over southern Jiangxi counties such as Huichang, Shangyou and Du Yu, among which the plaque custom in Huichang County was the most representative. Gannan is known as the "cradle of Hakka" in the world, and the people who moved from the Central Plains to the south chose to live together. In order to unite people, adapt to the environment and resist foreign aggression, ancestral halls and ancestral halls of different sizes were built in each village, and plaques such as hall plaques, merit plaques and longevity plaques were hung.
5. Welcome stories of Hakkas seeking Wu.
Among the custom of "welcoming stories" represented by Nanqiao, three flower festivals, namely "welcoming stories", "inviting gods, welcoming stories, calming the nerves" and "sending dragons away", show the moral values of treating people with faithfulness, filial piety and respect for names in Hakka culture, and are deeply rooted in people's hearts with unique and stable Hakka language, culture, folk customs and emotional mentality.