Basic information about Ganzhou Hakka culture

The Hakka history, Hakka culture and Hakka folk customs that Hakka folks from all over the world most want to know can be fully experienced and satisfied in Ganzhou. In Ganzhou, you can not only hear Hakka accents, tea-picking operas and beautiful Hakka folk songs everywhere, but you can also taste Hakka dishes and snacks of different styles everywhere; not only can you see ancient Hakka villages, typical Hakka square and round walls, You can also visit the Hakka Culture City and Hakka Style Garden, which integrate Hakka culture and Hakka architectural style.

Shangyou, Jiangxi Province, is one of the important birthplaces of the Hakka people’s settlement and multiplication and the Hakka culture. However, due to various reasons, some traditional Hakka cultural projects are on the verge of being lost. To this end, Shangyou County has mobilized organizations at all levels and social forces to save Hakka cultural heritage and explore Hakka cultural resources. "Nine Lions Worshiping Elephants" is a large-scale lantern that is unique to Shangyou. Shangyou County invested heavily in organizing folk artists to redevelop and save this Hakka cultural heritage. Last year, "Nine Lions and Elephants" participated in the first folk art performance in southern Gansu in Ganzhou City and won five first prizes in craft production, folk culture, and performance.

In recent years, this county has also collected and organized Hakka lintels, Hakka dialects, Hakka folk songs, Hakka proverbs, common sayings, idioms, etc., and has edited and published "Inscriptions on Door Lintels" and "Shangyou Hakka Proverbs" "Selection", "Yingqian Hakka Traditional Wedding and Funeral Customs" and other books, these books are deeply loved by the masses. The novels, essays and other literary works created by Li Boyong, one of the top ten literary and artistic workers in the province, are rich in Hakka language and are known as "a wonderful work of local cultural creation". Shangyou's Hakka folk songs have a unique charm. Currently, there are more than 150 types of Hakka folk songs circulating among the people, and more than 40 types of folk suona Hakka tunes. 10 Hakka folk songs compiled by Lai Lianggan of the county were included in the "Collection of Jiangxi Folk Songs".

In the mountains and rivers of Meijiao Town, Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, there is a magical and beautiful village - Sanliao. It is known as "the birthplace of Kanyu culture" and "the first village of Chinese Feng Shui culture". In recent years, groups of tourists from inside and outside the province, as well as overseas Hakkas, and even some news media have come here in droves, looking for traces of their ancestors and the mysteries of the mountains and rivers.

In this large village with a population of more than 4,000, most of them have the surnames Zeng and Liao. Sanliao, located in a remote area, became famous because of Feng Shui master Yang Junsong. Yang Junsong was known as the Immortal of Poverty Alleviation for his efforts to save the world and the poor. He was in charge of the geography of Lingtai in the imperial court and was worshiped as Doctor Jin Ziguanglu. In the sixth year of Qianfu in the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao rebelled and went straight to Chang'an, shocking both the government and the public. Yang Junsong escaped from the capital with the secrets of palace feng shui and moved south to settle in Sanliao. Yang Junsong, who is good at Kanyu and astronomical geography, discovered that the terrain structure of Sanliao Village actually resembled a Kanyu compass, and the azimuth shape on a stone mountain in the basin was also shaped like a compass pointer. Therefore, Yang Junsong, who was wandering, took his two disciples Zeng Wen and Liao Wangyu and built three huts here to settle down. Sanliao was named after this. From then on, Yang Junsong taught and wrote books here, creating and spreading his Kanyu theory. Under his advocacy, Chinese folk Feng Shui culture has been spread for thousands of years and is popular at home and abroad.