Hakka culture refers to the sum of material culture and spiritual culture created by Hakka people, including Hakka dialects, Hakka folk customs, Hakka folk houses, Hakka folk songs, Hakka art, Hakka characters, Hakka landscapes, Hakka poems, Hakka history, Hakka diet, Hakka distribution at home and abroad and many other aspects.

Hakka culture is known as the living fossil of ancient culture in China. Hakka studies is an outstanding school in the world today. It is the characteristic of Hakka culture, and the basic characteristic of Hakka culture is Confucian culture. Immigrant culture is also an important feature of Hakka culture. Hakka's ancestor worship, emphasis on education, root-seeking consciousness, pioneering spirit and strange and colorful folk customs are to a great extent the externalization of these three cultural characteristics; Hakka people of different branches have different cultural characteristics.

Introduction of Hakka typical culture

First, Hakka dialect

Hakka dialect is a branch of the same language of the Han nationality, so Hakka dialect retains a large number of ancient Chinese vocabulary. Zhang Taiyan has done some research on Hakka language system. He selected 63 Hakka words and made textual research with ancient books such as Shuowen, Erya, Dialect, Book of Rites, Shi Mao, Warring States Policy and Laozi. It shows that the vocabulary of Hakka dialect is homologous to ancient Chinese, and Hakka dialect retains part of Zhongzhou phonology.

Second, Hakka folk songs

Hakka folk songs originated from the ancient Central Plains are a wonderful flower in the Chinese national music garden. With the migration of Hakka ancestors, they settled in Guangdong, which is the crystallization of the integration of Central Plains culture and Guangdong local culture. They have been handed down and prospered for thousands of years. Hakka folk songs are a unique expression of Hakka feelings, which contain the essence of China's excellent folk songs and unique artistic style and charm, and are called the voice of nature together with the heritage of The Book of Songs. The expressions of Hakka folk songs, such as fu, bi, xing, four-character and seven-sentence format and rhyme, five-sentence banyan, guessing tune, tail-tail fighting song, playing song, cursing song, pun, rest, word splitting and overlapping words, reflect the lifestyle, folk customs and historical footprints of Hakka people in different periods from different aspects.

Three. Hakka clothing

Hakka costumes are simple and practical, spacious and simple. Generally like to wear plain colors, especially blue, black and white.