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The Hakkas are a unique ethnic group of "Han" Chinese originally active around the Yellow River area. They are thought to be one of the earliest "Han" settlers in China. One theory has it that many of the early Hakkas were affiliated with the "royal bloods". The truth may be more complicated than that. It is highly likely that while Hakka may be a stronghold of Han culture, Hakka people also have married other ethnic groups and adopted their cultures during the long migration history of 2000 years. Due to the infusion of other ethnic groups from the northwest, north and northeast, these original settlers gradually migrated south and settled in Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong. They were called Hakka by the locals when they first settled in. This term has been used since by non-Hakka and Hakka people, and in international publications. The spelling "Hakka" is derived from the pronunciation in Hakka dialect ( pronounced as "haagga" in Hakka and "kejia" in Mandarin).
During the last hundred years or so, Hakka people migrated to South East Asia, East Africa, Europe (Holland, United Kingdom, France, Germany..), South America (Brazil, Trinidad...) Canada, US. About 7% of the 1.2 billion Chinese clearly state their Hakka origin or heritage. However, the actual number may be more as many Hakka Han who settled along the path of migration assimilate with the local people. The Hakka identity is gradually lost.
Hakka people are noted for their preservation of certain cultural characteristics that could be traced to pre-Qin period (about 2200 years ago) as expressed in the custom, foods, spoken language, etc.
The Hakka people, paradoxically conservative and endeavoring, hard-working and enduring, is reflective of the spirit of Chinese culture.
I am a hakka.My father told me that my ancestors moved to Yongding county many hundred years ago from ancient WUXIN county where just besides the Taihu Lake of Zhejiang province .
Updated Sep 24, 2004
Address: They live in many provinces in Southern China.
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You believe or not ,these wonderful buildings are being applied to be on the World Cultural Heritage List.The State Bureau of Cultural Relics of PR China has applied to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to place these "missile silos" on the World Cultural Heritage List.
Written Sep 24, 2004
Address: Yongding County .
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Experts say these earth buildings were constructed in accordance with the design of the Eight Diagrams (eight combinations of three whole or broken lines formerly used in divination) and the five elements (mental, wood, water, fire and earth held by the ancients to compose the physical universe). Its pyramid shaped roof integrates Eastern and Western design.
Written Sep 24, 2004
Address: Yongding County .
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These are wonderful unique buildings.
To outsiders and tourists, the earth buildings in Yongding County of Fujian Province are just some mysterious mushroom-like, uniquely-shaped huge structures that once used to defend against bandits and marauders. In fact,they were once thought to be missle silos by US observors!(Thank God that Mr.Bush was't the president of United States at that time).
About 1,200 years ago, the earth buildings were built with soil and wood by Hakka people, or "guest clans", to guard against invasion from local bandits and marauders after they exiled themselves from central China to southern provinces of Fujian and Guangdong to flee wars and chaos and escape severe execution in the north.
There are currently some 30,000 earth buildings, mostly completed in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, in the south and east China provinces. And over 23,000 of them are in the mountainous Yongding County of Fujian.
Updated Sep 24, 2004
Address: Yongding County .
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