What the elders have told us most since childhood is "Ya Hakka"! Our village is in Jieyang, Chaoshan area, and our village is a Hakka village in my town! Surrounded by Chaoshan villages, we have called ourselves "Hakkas" since ancient times. In the past, Chaoshan people hated our village, and fights often happened in the village! Moreover, in order to prevent the invasion of Chaoshan people, the ancestors left "eight poems", and the villagers had to recite "eight poems" when they were young, which was equivalent to the code!
The ancestors of our Hakkas have long left the ancestral motto of "Better sell our ancestral fields than forget our ancestral words", which is the foundation of our Hakkas, just as our village has inherited the custom of "holding lanterns" parade since ancient times! Pray for the prosperity of Hakkas! The custom of turning on the light still exists!
We are Hakkas living in Chaoshan area, "Ya is a Hakkas"!
This is really an unstable record. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingla brothers and sisters. Is it wrong for the ancestral home "Fengshun County, Chaozhou Prefecture (now Fengshun County, Meizhou City)" to call itself chaozhou people? Should it be called Hakka? Don't confuse native place (region) with ethnic group. Except Chenghai County, there are Hakkas in the original nine counties of Chaozhou Prefecture. For example, the Hakkas live in Chao 'an District, Chaozhou City, and their ID card belongs to ⅹ village (street) of ⅹ X Town, Chao 'an District, Guangdong Province. Aren't they from chaozhou people or Chaoan? It's really ridiculous.
I am from Jieyang, there is no need to divide it so carefully! Even the Hakkas in Meizhou feel very cordial, not to mention the Hakkas living in Chaoshan three cities. Of course, it is best to speak Chaoshan dialect, and Hakka people are not excluded. I study in other provinces. There are three associations in Guangdong, one in Chaoshan, one in Meizhou and one in Guangdong. Chaoshan and Meizhou are both active together and very close.
For this topic? Xiang Sheng thought: It must be!
Most people in Chaoshan area moved in from other places, including current Chaoshan people and Hakkas living in this area.
Although there are great differences between Chaoshan people and Hakkas in language, there are also differences in the pronunciation of the existing Chaoshan people. Their ancestors also migrated from different places first, with different pronunciations and similar customs, but only lived together in this land. Everyone has a * * * knowledge: love yourself!
So the Hakkas living in this area are also Chaoshan people. Because their ancestors lived here, their household registration is here, and their living habits are similar. In some places, Hakkas can speak Chaoshan dialect and live with Chaoshan people. So there is no reason to say that Hakka people living in Chaoshan area are not Chaoshan people!
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Chaoshan is Chaozhou, and Shantou is the collective name of the two regions. It is generally believed that Chaozhou dialect is a language that facilitates cognitive communication. Although you are a Hakka and can speak Hakka, you have lived there for generations, even if you are a local. Of course, you are from Chaoshan, but the essence of being a Hakka has not changed. For example, I am from southern Fujian, but I can't speak Minnan dialect. Why? Because I can speak Hakka. But according to the present region, it belongs to Minnan people. But I am a descendant of Hakka, and the essence of Hakka has not changed. Hakkas living abroad still call themselves Hakkas.
Hakka and Chaoshan people are two ethnic groups with distinct national attributes, that is to say, Hakka dialect is Hakka and Chaoshan dialect is Chaoshan people. No matter where you live, Southeast Asia, Pearl River Delta and Chaoshan area, as long as your mother tongue is Hakka, then you are a Hakka, and so are Chaoshan people.
Of course, in Chaoshan area, there are also some Hakkas' ancestral homes here, and in the guest area, there are also some Chaoshan people and new Chaoshan people's ancestral homes there. Of course, the identification of their ethnic affiliation is also very clear, that is, Chaoshan people are Chaoshan people and Hakkas are Hakkas. For example, Academician Huang Xuhua, the father of nuclear submarines whose ancestral home is in Chaoshan area, although his ancestral home belongs to Chaoshan area, this does not prevent him from being recognized as a Hakka, while Zhu Mengyi, who co-founded the exhibition, is generally recognized as a Chaoshan person although his ancestral home is in Hakka area. Generally, Hakka and Chaoshan people live together at the junction of two ethnic groups. Chaoshan people and Hakka people do not penetrate into the main residential areas of the two places, and the boundaries are very clear.
However, because we live in a mixed area, people interact with each other, and culture, folk customs and blood ties are greatly blended. Even the Hakkas can't speak Hakka and their ancestral property can't be changed, so we don't have to admit that the Hakkas in Chaoshan area are Hakkas and the Chaoshan people in Hakka area are Chaoshan people. We can also think that they have dual attributes, that is, they are Hakka, they are Chaoshan people, or they have dual identities of Hakka and Chaoshan people. For example, Chinese in Thailand are both Chinese and Thai. In fact, Chaoshan people, Academician Huang Xuhua are also Chaoshan people, and Zhu Mengyi Hakkas are also Hakkas. It seems that there is nothing wrong.
On this issue, let me first talk about what is a Hakka who can speak Hakka. This is the only sign and identity card of Hakkas. Because the term "Hakka" is trans-provincial, including Hakka in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Hainan, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi and Hong Kong. It is similar to the name of Minnan people. Minnan people, including Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan Province and Hainan, are also identified by language.
So are the Hakkas living in Chaoshan area counted as Chaoshan people? This should be viewed from two angles. The first is the Hakka perspective. Most Hakkas will consider themselves as Hakkas in Chaoshan area, or "Chaoke" for short. Recognize the Hakkas first, then the Chaoshan people. In fact, Chaoshan people who speak Minnan don't have much intimacy. After all, languages and cultural customs are different. Secondly, from the perspective of Chaoshan Minnan people, Hakkas can be divided into two categories. The first category is ordinary Hakkas, with no special contribution. An unknown person is definitely not self-righteous, and then he doesn't care whether you are from Chaoshan or not. When you come to a place where their languages are concentrated, you are still regarded as a foreigner, no different from foreigners in other places. The second is a well-known Hakka who was born in Chaoshan area. They'll think of them as themselves. For example, Zong Yirao, a cultural master, will ignore his Hakka identity when introducing him and directly say that he is from Chaoshan.
To sum up, it can be seen that Hakka people only regard language as their identity, while Chaoshan advocates two identities, one is regional identity and the other is linguistic ethnic identity! It is Chaoshan people who have made achievements in Chaoshan Hakka, and they are also included in the Chaoshan Who's Who, so in comparison, Hakka people will suffer more. However, under the background of cultural unification, Hakka, Cantonese and Minnan are all ancient Chinese in China, and they all retain a large number of archaic words and inherit the excellent Chinese culture, which is worth inheriting and developing by future generations. Moreover, culture should keep pace with the times, take its essence and discard its dross. Hakka people should learn from Chaoshan people the spirit of unity and adventure and the consciousness of doing business. Chaoshan people should learn from Hakka people the national spirit of friendly and simple folk customs, respecting culture and attaching importance to education. Only in this way can we learn from each other and work together.