I'm a 5th generation Hakka myself in Malaysia, still able to speak Hakka fluently. Both my mom's and dad's side are Hakka. Just writing all this down while it's still fresh in my memory. My great great grandfather was a Chinese doctor when he settled in KL in the 1800s, and he made quite a lot of dough back then bringing in more Chinese labourers to Malaya. He had 2 wives (1 in China, 1 in Malaysia) and a mistress to paint an image. So much that my great grandfather didn't work at all while my grandfather only worked in construction in his later years, where my dad also picked up the trade. My current house was built by my grandfather and father from the ground up when my dad was a child. My great grandfather was the son of my great great grandfather's first wife, while my grandfather and father are the eldest, so I guess that means we're the most legitimate in the lineage. Sadly my great grandfather squandered away all the wealth, but my great great grandfather had so much that even my dad didn't go through any sort of poverty at all. He was able to get by doing odd jobs until he settled by doing house renovations. We already cut ties with our relatives in China by my great great grandfather. Basically during the Japanese Occupation, he sent my grandfather back to China to have our relatives in Huizhou shelter him. But our relatives all refused to and he was forced to wander the streets. When my great great grandfather found out the rage surged from him as he had been sending vast sums of money back to them for decades and decided to cut all ties. But on my great great grandfather, great grandfather and grandfather's tomb stone still has the name of their ancestral city in China carved out. I used to hear that our old Malaysian home in Kg Dato Harun was razed to the ground as it was gound zero for the 1969 riots. It used to be a house with a coffe shop in front manned by my grandma. My dad would tell me how he climbed up trees with my uncles and defended themselves with slingshots as the rioters tried to kill them. Luckily a relative with a car came in and managed to haul everyone to safety. The government resettled us to PJ where my grandma is staying now. My grandma is from Ampang, and she on the other hand came from a family of tin and cement miners. She told me stories of when Japanese bombers flattened the cement factory they were working in. My mom's side on the other hand came from a poverty stricken background like most Hakkas back then. Her parents generation manned the rubber plantations, her mom died young so she had to take care of all the younger siblings when her dad was working. No one looked after them other than occasional visits from relatives, and she used to share the many tries it took her to cook something decent for her siblings. And another incident where my uncle became involved with gangsters and was almost beaten to death by the police. My grandpa (her dad) went around begging for bail money to save him, hence why no other family member ever became involved with gangsters again. My mom is the most respected in her side of the family because of her dad's legacy. He would always help out other family with no questions asked or strings attached, even to the point of starving himself where he spent the later half of his years paralysed from the waist down due to malnutrition. All I remember about him when I was born was that he was already wheelchair bound, and always gave us treats when we visited like any typical grandpa. As for myself, just nothing special that really went through. My parents both did such an amazing job shielding me and my brother from all those hardships the previous generations of Hakkas faced. Both my parents worked shield us from any sense of poverty, my mom sacrificed all her free time after work to make sure we were caught up on school. Hence I'm like many Hakkas of the modern generation, just hearing stories of the great hardships and sacrifices our ancestors faced in admiration. All while enjoying a peaceful middle class life in Malaysia. Also just wanna say Malaysia is the only home we've ever known a this point, after more than 150 years of my family's history here. And just forever grateful to stay in a peaceful, plentiful and diverse country.
@chrispompom
Жыл бұрын
Wish I can be in Malaysia
@majesticchicken3213
Жыл бұрын
I am half hakka, people in sabah called us sino kadazan which mean half hakka and half kadazan, I'm able to speak basic hakka only, cannot write nor speak mandarin though Your family history is definitely fascinating, my great great grandfather was from the mainland but that is all I know, they settled down in Sarawak and my father moves to sabah
@zzz7315
Жыл бұрын
@@majesticchicken3213 It's okay to be half Hakka, still considered "Own House People" (自家人) as long as you can still speak it 😁
@kapdolkim1914
Жыл бұрын
Great share. Thanks. I have many friends in Malaysia with similar stories.
@waionnchan-yb7tm
11 ай бұрын
Anyone knows the address in Tam Sui, Huizhou, Guangzhou for Chen clan. I want to pray in my ancestors home
@realmofthesenses
3 жыл бұрын
My great-grandfather was Hakka from somewhere in South-China. He suffered a lot, and wanted a better life, so he left China to work on the plantation fields in a Dutch colony in South-America. After his contract was finished, he stayed and opened a shop from his house. He married a black woman, and the family took on the woman's European name (given to her family after the abolition of slavery). The family took on her name, because of racist colonial laws against Chinese at that time. A European name would help them get a better future. His descendents are called "black chinese". So, this Hakka Chinese man was the founding father of our post-slavery family. I, the third generation after him, carry a European last name, while the real family name is the Chinese name of my Hakka greatgrandfather. Sometimes I fantasize about adding our Chinese last name to our European last name. In our country such a sing is legally difficult and expensive.
@pocahontasseguinart7099
2 жыл бұрын
My family did the same before my great grandmother was born and they came to Jamaica.
@mishima4630
2 жыл бұрын
Change it back. Your roots are precious.
@sidneysoon2745
2 жыл бұрын
Suriname?
@MattKucia
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing story, thanks for sharing!
@sidneysoon2745
2 жыл бұрын
Suriname?
@BenebellWen
5 жыл бұрын
I'm currently binge watching all your videos. Love this channel so much! Hakka Taiwanese here. 😉
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! I enjoyed learning about your people!
@xijinping9961
3 жыл бұрын
Ngai oi nyi 😘
@machao2279
3 жыл бұрын
@@xijinping9961 nyi jiw lo pho liau...🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@xijinping9961
3 жыл бұрын
@@machao2279 mang jiu le, han tan sa le
@koollookbali3379
3 жыл бұрын
A wen ...nyi an ciang. Ho..😁 (Halka singkawang-Bali)
@PeterSimonYiu
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I am a 2nd generation HAKKA residing in Singapore. My parents were from Southern China, they migrated to Singapore maybe in the early 1930. Remember the animosity with the other Chinese during my growing up year. Have to learn to fight to survive in that kind of environment then. Today this is no longer the case as there are many HAKKA ladies married to other Chinese sub group.
@celestialstar124
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@XerosXIII
3 жыл бұрын
I'm one of the lucky new generation of Hakka in Malaysia that had a decent upbringing, no worries of missing out the next meal. Stories of parents and grandparents having to hustle everyday, eating nothing but porridge with salted fish or fermented tofu is very real the language and culture is lost on me as I do not had much exposure to it, but I would say I'm in an interesting position to look at Hakka like an outsider despite a Hakka myself!
@ScienceSavvy502
2 жыл бұрын
Can you speak hakka? Hiao gong mao yo?
@clarencechung122
2 жыл бұрын
@@ScienceSavvy502 ngai hiao!!!
@wliaputs
2 жыл бұрын
Mm cho
@XerosXIII
2 жыл бұрын
@@ScienceSavvy502 sik bao mang? that's it :P
@sheepmasterrace
2 жыл бұрын
damn having fis h daily would be a delicacy for my dad (born to a kmt nco 4 years after the escape)
@許少彥
4 жыл бұрын
As a taiwanese hoklo, i have to say hakka are good leaders, hoklo on the other hand are successful business people but we fail at politics, we cant rule ourselves, its better when theres a hakka in charge despite we cant get along sometimes, singapore, 東寧王國,蘭芳共和國 are the best example
@foonlam7134
3 жыл бұрын
I am third generation Hakka Malaysian who now lives in New Zealand. Although we are far from our land of origin, our parents have always made sure that they passed on our Hakka culture and language to us. But alas being overseas nowadays means that most of our children speak English instead of Hakka.
@wolfy8006
3 жыл бұрын
Hakka here. I grew up in New Zealand but moved back to Taiwan. My family is is from hsichu, and have been in here for 26 generation.
@leeronald1461
3 жыл бұрын
Water is always flowing so long it is water. Know the source that continues to flow is good.
@kachunlay697
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Hakka Ngai from Norway! great video!
@vipcimay33
3 жыл бұрын
Hakka ngai here too bro in the us
@jtong1278
3 жыл бұрын
There's a lot of Timorese Lay in Melbourne Australia
@kinseenkok7625
Жыл бұрын
The founder of modern China, Dr Sun Yet Sen is a Hakka. So are the three famous Song sister (one married Chiang Kai Sek and one to Dr Sun Yet Sen). Singapore founder Lee Kuan Yew is also a Hakka.
@sinOsiris
3 жыл бұрын
Hakka the China largest ethnic group here in state of Sabah are kind with good demeanour and traits
@AzariusR
3 жыл бұрын
Hello fellow Sabahan
@catmatism
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a hakka in Singapore. I think we don't care about where we came from anymore. Asking about whether you're hakka, Cantonese, hokkien is just to ask what dialect we speak.
@lilydev2808
3 жыл бұрын
The Hakka people established Kuala Lumpur as a town a century past. The Hakka were involved in all major rebellions in Chinese history.
@trinawong8273
11 ай бұрын
Great fighters...
@lees7340
Жыл бұрын
My Hakka widowed great grandmother and grand father left China for Malaysia(the British colonized Street Settlement then) in the early 1900s. My Hakka grand mother came later as the bride for my grand father. They settled in a village with 90% Hakka, everyone speaks Hakka there. I grew up there and spoke Hakka with my grand mother.
@declangraham1864
2 жыл бұрын
As part Hakka Jamaican thank you for making this video always wanted to reconnect with my roots so videos like this are a good start.
@seankiong
3 жыл бұрын
i totally agreed when OP said we "hakka" is like gypsy. Hakka meant "Guest Family/Brotherhood", they move around for trading and surviving that meant they do not actually have a permanent place. so we basically is a guest of all people/culture
@liewskincare
3 жыл бұрын
It's so interesting to learn about the culture, because I can't find a lot about Hakka history. Unfortunately I don't speak Hakka very well anymore 😔
@ErniJuliaKok
3 жыл бұрын
Hi, Yulie, my child and his generation also speak poorly. Don't worry, Mandarin is quite similar to Hakka.
@wt4397
2 жыл бұрын
same here not the best but i know i will survie in hakka town 😄 growing up in sweden
@danielzhang1916
3 ай бұрын
Hakka were not recorded in the migrations, so it's mostly pieced together through oral history and stuff
@skywatcherc5209
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the informative subject about Hakka People & culture. You missed the famous dish was a steam salted chicken, simple pound cake made of flour and sugar…, I wish that I can practice Hakka speaking again with someone. I am retired for almost 4 years now, I would like to relive my Hakka speaking family. I used to live with my grandmother, she only spoke Hakka with me, now when I hear people speaking Hakka I like to listen & learn again. Does anybody know an app for learning Hakka?
@orlogskapten4161
11 ай бұрын
Here representing the Miaoli Hakka, from Taiwan. Awesome video, always great to refresh my historical memory. I'm half Hakka, and on my mother's side, it's all Hakka.
@MudaSHoleProductions
3 жыл бұрын
Third gen Hakka with my gramps hailing from the Meixian region of Guangdong. Also, first gen Chinese American here in the US. Great vid that summarizes the history and movement of our peoples!
@creatoruser736
5 жыл бұрын
How about a video on Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule from 1895-1945?
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
What in particular might you think be interesting? Ive assembled some materials but nothing has really leapt out at me.
@creatoruser736
5 жыл бұрын
@@Asianometry How the Taiwanese people lived under Japanese rule. I've heard that Taiwan has a less pessimistic memory of their time under Japanese control, which is in contrast to how basically the rest of East Asia looks back on Japanese Imperialism. How did they react to coming under Japanese control? How were they treated and how did this change their lives and influence their culture over 50 years? What happened when the Japanese left and they anticipated reuniting with China (before the Nationalists fled there and the island remained politically separate from the mainland)?
@mr.mysteriousspyman4016
5 жыл бұрын
@@Asianometry Do you know anything about how much contact the Taiwanese had with people living outside of Taiwan, and how easy/difficult it was to travel in and out of Taiwan (including to Mainland Japan)? I also think that it would be interesting to research the history of Taiwanese refugees who fled to Mainland China and other regions during the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan, and during the beginning of Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan. It will also be interesting to research the relationship between Taiwanese and Japanese people during the Colonial Period. I live in Australia, and I'm somewhat unique because I'm a fourth-generation Chinese Australian. I told my art teacher this one time and she told me that it's quite common, even though I've never personally met any other people who are anything more than 3rd-gen Chinese Australian, and this is even the case though I attend a high school which is (coincidentally) roughly 60% ethnically-Chinese. Whilst Australia only abolished the White Australia Policy back in 1973, Chinese were still migrating less frequently to Australia before that time, and large Chinese migrations to Australia occurred historically, during the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s-1860s, and also during the latter half of the Chinese Civil War. However, I'm not descended from these types of Chinese immigrants. Instead, through my maternal grandmother, I'm descended from Chinese people originating from Taiwan who were brought to Australia from Indonesia as Japanese Prisoners-of-War. My great great grandfather had allegedly fled Taiwan in 1895 following the Japanese Invasion, choosing to migrate to Java, Dutch Indonesia as a refugee. In 1936, my great great grandfather travelled back to Taiwan in order to retrieve a wife for his son, my great grandmother, and he brought her back to Java. My great grandmother, who was allegedly a distant relative of my great grandfather, was born and raised in Japanese Taiwan, and she had never formally lost her Japanese/Taiwanese nationality even whilst living in Indonesia; my grandmother has explained to me that both of her parents were Stateless, though I'm not so sure that my grandmother even has access to reliable records of nationality. In December 1941, my great grandparents and my great great grandparents living in Indonesia were arrested by the Dutch Indonesian Government and were deported to Australia for temporary internment during WWII, lasting until March 1946. During their internment in Australia, my grandmother was born here, receiving an Australian birth certificate, essentially signifying Australian citizenship. My great grandfather was apparently an intelligent man; he knew how to speak English, and he taught English whilst living in the camp; he probably even taught some Japanese people. However, my family hated the Japanese, I've been told, considering the Japanese to be the enemy, and being hostile to them even though many had been living outside of Japan for decades. My great grandparents and other Taiwanese in the internment camp for Japanese civilians wrote numerous letters to the Chinese consulate (presumably in Melbourne) to be repatriated to China, rather than Japan. Of course, with the realisation that Taiwan was now under Chinese control, rather than Japanese, my family begged to be returned to Taiwan Province. A Japanese ship called the "Yoizuki", with a Japanese captain, came to Sydney to pick up the Japanese and Taiwanese internees and repatriate them to their respective homelands. This caused panic amongst the Taiwanese, and one of my relatives is quoted as (roughly) saying to a prison guard "If they send me to Japan, please give me your revolver so I can shoot myself in the head." My family was successfully repatriated to Taiwan, Republic of China, sometime during mid-1946. They continued to live in Taiwan for several years, but they eventually abandoned the island in 1952, for reasons which are as of yet unknown to me. My grandmother then spent the rest of her young life living in Indonesia, with her parents having chosen to return to this country. Later, my grandmother traveled to Mainland China to study (which is where my great grandfather learnt English), and then she traveled to Hong Kong, and finally, she returned to Australia in 1978, bringing her husband and daughter with her; she had always possessed Australian citizenship. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatura en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Yoizuki
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
I only recently came across. I don’t know much about the Taiwanese diasporas and their history in Australia or other countries. I’d love to look at it someday. I’ve began gathering materials but I work slowly so it’ll take some time.
@insideout9824
4 жыл бұрын
U can checkout the movie Blue Brave 1895 (The Legend of Formosa 1895) it tells story about Taiwanese Hakka fighters against Japanese invasion here kzitem.info/news/bejne/rX2O1XtshXyIgm0 Cos of the historical meaning this movie even funded by government, most scenes speak Hakka though
@geocritic3577
3 ай бұрын
My paternal biological great-grandparents were Hakka immigrants to Singapore. There is a written letter stating our Hakka roots and them giving away my grandmother to a Muslim family after 3 days.
@gigihanmandarin
11 ай бұрын
cultural appropriation s an American thing. No one in Asia or in most parts of the world would be annoyed by a person wearing another race/clan's traditional outfit.
@byak6687
4 жыл бұрын
Just realised I have a lot of china ancestry, I’m half hakka a quarter China-chinese (I’m Malaysian-chinese btw) and half teochew(paternal side)- however I traced my ancestry on my surname and found out that one of my ancestors is a runaway prince (his family got dethroned so he was forced to escaped- in I forgot which dynasty-) I’m sad bc my chinese isn’t good at ALL, and I can’t speak hakka or teochew however I can still understand some basic hakka, I can make out the meaning of sentences bc it’s kind of similar to chinese xD
@victorwong616
2 жыл бұрын
What is your surname
@byak6687
2 жыл бұрын
@@victorwong616 曾 chang in english
@ScienceSavvy502
2 жыл бұрын
Malaysian banana
@fatnica9768
4 жыл бұрын
There should be more mentioned about the migration and also the intermarriage to the local people and also the language. They pick up along the migration. Hakka Malaysian 4th generation
@yenaaddict3638
2 жыл бұрын
Hi, im 4th generation of Hakka too, im from Indonesia, really Curious about Hakka language in Malaysia, are same with Indo?
@yaolungkhong
3 жыл бұрын
Thrifty and hard-working. Tasty cuisine based on land animals and bean curd. My Hakka better half can't seem to understand why my Cantonese side is so fussed over boiled soups and seafood :)
@lemon2524
2 жыл бұрын
Every cuisine is good.
@sjelucten7150
Жыл бұрын
Many many people I know in The UK and The Netherlands said they are 1/4 Hakka or 1/8 Hakka whose ancestors were from Mexian, Guangdong province.
@hasanchoudhury5401
2 жыл бұрын
Great subject and detailed discussions. Most informative. Much appreciated. Regards. Thanks.
@TheRiverCry
4 жыл бұрын
This is not what I learned about the hakka from my mother. There are different sectors of so called hakka. We are the New Territories Hong Kong hakka. Hakka or hakga was given to us by the bunti (Cantonese) of Hong Kong. I was told that hakga meant black family again it was a derogatory term. We were black because of our "magic" lol but really it was our education of science and ancestral "worship". It's not worship tho it's paying respect to our lost ones. Hence that's why the bunti were afraid of us and committed genocide against us. The hakga that I know of are spread all over the world and some have forgot where they come from. We all reunite on a moon festival called "Ting Min" but while the hakga have evolved the celebrations have declined. As I'm writing this I'm thinking I might do a video. Thanks very much for this video :)
@Lorynae
3 жыл бұрын
My family still continues the Hakka tradition of ancestral worship. I agree it's a form of paying respect to our ancestors and also for good blessings. ^^
@jparsit
2 жыл бұрын
The Chinese are amazing people. For nearly 6,000 years millions of peasants lived under poverty and control of the elites and authority. The difficulty was a great teacher that cause the Chinese to be the real fighter on earth. With hard work and family culture, they fight together for survival. That was the success of the Chinese wherever they settled. The world should learn from them. Taejew community was another example. King Taksin of Thailand. Good work and interesting.
@PlanetFrosty
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, as I prepare to go to Taiwan that is good to know. Very interesting about the culture and history.
@slc801
Жыл бұрын
I am first generation Hakka from Trinidad West Indies my father is from canton mother from Hong Kong .
@johnnychang4233
Жыл бұрын
A curiosity about the Punti-Hakka war seems that some folks from Cantonese origin anticipated the celebration of April 4th memorial day due to an impending battle with the Hakka.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
3 жыл бұрын
12:57 When a stronger culture copies from a weaker one, it’s called “cultural appropriation”. When a weaker culture copies from a stronger one, it’s called “colonization”. Either way, you have to wonder if there isn’t some kind of cultural-purity agenda going on ...
@Asianometry
3 жыл бұрын
I was just kidding.
@Nomadonthego
11 ай бұрын
You didn’t mention how a majority of Chinese abroad are of Hakka origin - a lot of them migrated to SEA, North America & South America in the 1600-1900s bc of their bad living conditions in China and then became insanely RICH in all the places they went to. I just visited some OG crazy Rich Asian mansions in the Straits settlements in Malaysia & Singapore and some of them were of Hakka origin. They became business people, merchants, traders in these places they migrated to since conditions back in China were not great for them but became very prosperous in these places and contributed to establishing the cultures of the places they went to especially in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand as well as the Chinese population in the US and in places in Latin America & the Caribbean like Cuba, Jamaica, Peru etc.
@iceomistar4302
5 жыл бұрын
The Qing not only discriminated against the Hakka but the Junkia families as well, these Junkia people were descended from Soldiers who were stationed in Southern China during the Ming dynasty hence the name Junkia, they spoke dialects of Nanking mandarin amongst themselves and intermixed with the Hakka in some cases, during the Qing conquest of Guangdong in one of the towns the Qing would holdup a lid to distinguish between Hakka and Junkia by asking them to say what it was if they spoke Hakka they were allowed through if they spoke Junkia they would be killed.
@songwaikit8718
5 жыл бұрын
Woah... where u got this info from
@iceomistar4302
5 жыл бұрын
From a Chinese documentary on the matter, it's very interesting, there are fewer and fewer speakers of Ming Dynasty Mandarin left in South-eastern China and Taiwan.
@iceomistar4302
5 жыл бұрын
Here it is, it's very interesting if you speak Yunnanese or Jianghuai mandarin a lot of the dialect will be intelligible to you, since these Junkia people 軍家人 their ancestors were from Nanjing who were soldiers garrisoned in southern China, same thing with most Yunnanese who can also trace their ancestry to Nanjing including myself. video.sina.com.cn/view/252174717.html
@hendrysurabaya6348
4 жыл бұрын
@@iceomistar4302 wow..its new knowledge for me..I think Nanjing must be called Chinese Hero City..
@iceomistar4302
4 жыл бұрын
@@hendrysurabaya6348 In a way yes, it's more interesting than Peking the later capital of both the Ming, Qing and Communist parties, Nanking was the capital of the Republic of China 1911 to 1949 which fled to Taiwan.
@zoeng9026
11 ай бұрын
I’m Hakka :) and from Singapore
@xXxSkyViperxXx
2 жыл бұрын
i had a hakka friend in china before, so that's why she behaved the way she did. it matches well with the description here.
@xolang
11 ай бұрын
My cousin is married to a Hakka and they call themselves "Khèq" with q representing a glottal stop and Kh an aspirated K.
@unioncommodityminingenergy2632
4 жыл бұрын
I am HAKKA in Thailand,
@tungprompanao9399
3 жыл бұрын
I’m Thai.
@machao2279
3 жыл бұрын
i'm hakka from Indonesia👍🏻
@tokorojj
3 жыл бұрын
Great content. Love your channel. Thank you so much.
@azart2gaming380
Жыл бұрын
I am a literal Hakka genetically, I’m Hakka from birth. I’m one of the lucky ones born in Calcutta India 😊
@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem is like going to free college and you learn new topics all the time. The only thing you don't get is an expensive piece of paper with official seals.
@biocapsule7311
2 жыл бұрын
The analogy for Jews is quite incorrect. Because the 'Han' is entirely made of subdivide where there simply isn't proper 'han'. It's an umbrella term with the division mainly a matter of region, dialect or cuisine. If there were any more historical devise factors, it has long since been forgotten. The ancestry have been so mix that likely most Han Chinese have a little bit of everything. :)
@YeenMage
2 жыл бұрын
The Jurchen invasion of the Northern Song Dynasty happened in 1127 CE, not "in between the Tang and the Song Dynasties". The Tang had already ended in 907 CE.
@bombasticborneo
3 жыл бұрын
Hi all, Borneo has lots of Hakkas too👋🏿👋🏿. In fact the very first group of mass migration to this island because of the gold.
@aleksandrkhan4931
11 ай бұрын
Хакка это переселенцы с кореи. Когда-то древние корейцы заселили и японию и создали первое государство Ямато в японии. Сегодня корейский, японский и язык хакка это три разных диалекта одного языка. Корейцы, японцы, хакка и все кто проживает в других странах являются представителями одной группы племен. Как например германские племена или славянские. В СССР самым знаменитым корейцем был певец и композитор Виктор Цой. А в боксе первый абсалютный чемпион россии Костя Цзю. В гимнастике Нелли Ким.
@Ju_pi_ter
5 жыл бұрын
I realized that it's hard to locate whereabout of my ancestors in China. I also hate manchu even more, the barbarion that almost devastate China.
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
Most people’s ancestors in China move around a lot. Practically it’s very difficult to trace people’s roots far back. It’s a consequence of Chinese people’s difficult history
@johnnyzhao7698
5 жыл бұрын
Your parents not leave you some story or information? Most Hakka leave information to their childrens though. I'm Hakka from west Borneo i come from Zhao family surname my dad said his ancestor from Guangdong capital and the 24 generation of Zhao family, while my mom from Deng family from Meixien capital or something.
@jewellui
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyzhao7698 24 generations is a bit too far, by then information would be lost and there would be mixing from Chinese from other areas. It would be hard to pinpoint one location.
@hxteng5348
2 жыл бұрын
The Hakka are renoun for their dishes, especially in the south east asia regions like Malaysia and Singapore.
@suchenzuehx192
5 жыл бұрын
Wait a minute. This is isn’t a Maori war dance
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
Came to the wrong spot. This is for Hakka not haka.
@suchenzuehx192
5 жыл бұрын
asianometry I was hoping the Hakka would do the haka but interesting nonetheless 10/10
@heoariffpolen1644
4 жыл бұрын
Kabate ka ora
@kris1095HTX
3 жыл бұрын
Hakka from Texas. Keep hakka alive
@thomashom7514
4 жыл бұрын
You need to improve your Mandarin pronunciation. You are quite off.
@Asianometry
4 жыл бұрын
It’s not easy to speak English and then suddenly code switch to Chinese.
@ctwpoco-oy6wu
Жыл бұрын
The Hakka people call themselves Hakka. Cantonese and Hakka pronunciation are very similar. ❤😂❤😂❤😂
@moonsorrow77
3 жыл бұрын
I’m Hakka born in East Timor,now living in Australia..the whole family on both sides..my mum’s and dad’s..grandparents and ancestors from Guangdong in meizhou..MOIYAN..the national language of China should be Hakka not mandarin...
@tommyseptian4601
3 жыл бұрын
I'm part Hakka born in West Kalimantan. My grandma is also from Moiyan !
@tjoekie1968
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for explanation
@andia968
3 жыл бұрын
Half hakka half teochew here.my po thai (zeng zumu) was fro meixian, i miss meixian food
@meiguimeiguiwoaini
4 жыл бұрын
your explanation of hakka cuisine is spot on tbh... as a half hakka i grew up eating a lot of 梅菜 which is preserved, especially in dishes like 梅菜扣肉 (or khieu nyuk as we say it in hakka)... i chuckled a little at the "hakkas are known to be thrifty" stereotype because this is something i grew up hearing lol
@mikecarlson6416
2 жыл бұрын
我今天才知道梅菜扣肉居然是客家菜
@yeahboi7562
2 жыл бұрын
Oh man... i instantly knew what you meant when you said "khieu nyuk".. lol.. love it growing up in Aussie hakka household
@SmileZero
2 жыл бұрын
Lol, I just came into a realization on why my gf often say I ate like poor people sometimes, and I was like, what do you mean lady? Is tofu and vegetables considered poor people's food now? I grew up eating these, it's a family recipe. Now I understand.
@EddyWoon
Жыл бұрын
@@yeahboi7562 Good to hear that you know what it is. I now live in a beautiful country town in Qld. I am the only Chinese here and there is no one for me to practise Hakka with. I have to look up the recipe for this dish and share it with the folks here. Love this dish.
@LiveefootballStreams
Жыл бұрын
Kheiu Nyuk 😂 My mums favourite
@LambentOrt
2 жыл бұрын
There's quite a sizeable Hakka community centered around the city of Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, where I was born and currently live. If you go into the Chinese communities here, a lot of folks proudly speak the Hakka dialect, alongside Mandarin and Cantonese. As for Hakka cuisine and culture, it's true that it is very simple. But we are also a very adaptable people, because we don't belong anywhere... and yet wherever we end up, that is home. And that is all that matters.
@sususegar
Жыл бұрын
Hakka from KL here. I went to KK for the first time last year and spoke Hakka to my Grab driver aunty who is actually not Hakka. She said the same thing as you, Hakka is almost a lingua franca among local Chinese. I might consider retiring in Sabah, there is much less racial tension over there!
@danielzhang1916
3 ай бұрын
same here in California, many people are half Hakka/Taiwanese, because they intermarried then came over
@flow6564
3 жыл бұрын
My grandparents are hakka, they migrated to Thailand. I had listen about china a lot in childhood from her. Wish i can go there in someday.
@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263
3 жыл бұрын
Not right now man. Because of dozens of situations.
@kaibotski4939
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's a good time to visit China or any time at all. Visit Taiwan instead if you want to meet Hakkas.
@slc801
Жыл бұрын
@@kaibotski4939 I have been to shanghai and it is great there ! Your assumption of China is wrong .
@lilylimtiaco
3 жыл бұрын
My maternal grandmother was a Hakka. As a young child, I remembered her beautiful folk singing when she was hand sewing my clothes. She was thrifty and hardworking. I wished I learned her dialect.
@jackjackyphantom8854
3 жыл бұрын
The regional differences within Chinese (Han) aren't that significantly large, due to immigrations back and forth (with the exceptions of Tanka and Pinghua). Northern Han contributed fundamentally to the ancestry make-up of Southern Han (especially in terms of paternal lineage); the main difference came from the maternal side. The question is, are Hakka people a distinct ethnic group? Personally I don't think so, I'd say that they're still within the Han community!
@pocahontasseguinart7099
2 жыл бұрын
My great grandmother was from Hakka Chinese quarter . Chinese people use to live and have kids in Jamaica where my grandmother is from
@Rexlee1123
2 жыл бұрын
@@jackjackyphantom8854 yup, and Hakka maternal lineage consist mostly of Hmong mien ethnic groups like the she people.
@jackjackyphantom8854
2 жыл бұрын
@@Rexlee1123 I think it depends on the individuals. Some Hakka have non-Han origins and some Hakka are just Han. Ultimately, Southern and Northern Han forms a tight cluster in Y-chromosome. Well Han is a strong patriarchal society, the men are economically and politically dominant, so indigenous girls would marry them in seek for better life! The indigenous men couldn't compete and were slowly displaced!
@jackjackyphantom8854
2 жыл бұрын
@@Rexlee1123 I think we can observes their facial features. Some Southern Chinese just look Chinese and some don't look very Chinese.
@Rajj854
3 жыл бұрын
They were the most well known Chinese group in Kolkata , India. I grew up with them. They are very hard working people and industrious people.
@peterzeng7514
3 жыл бұрын
thanks for your kind words, i am hakka myself, born and grew up in kolkata's bentinck street now living in canada
@jewellui
3 жыл бұрын
How did the original settles communicate, did they learn the local languages? I can’t imagine.
@treelife365
3 жыл бұрын
My mom was born and raised in Kolkata! I visited when I was a kid 😊 We are now in Toronto, Canada.
@prla5400
3 жыл бұрын
Dang, lots of stuff in Calcutta
@jama5191
2 жыл бұрын
@@treelife365 are you the Jews of China 🤔?
@fredtan1506
3 жыл бұрын
It touches my heart everytime, reading about chinese diaspora. I can't imagine how hard life must have been in china for our great, great grandparents over a 100 years ago ( the 8 powers) and risk sending their dear loved ones overseas. It makes me read more about overseas chinese people and chinese history. My ancestors are from Xiamen.
@QASIMARA
3 жыл бұрын
Touch your heart Taiwan
@itsoktolovechina
2 жыл бұрын
It took some boats up to month to arrive. Imagine...
@Amidat
2 жыл бұрын
yes and that's why there was revolution
@winnieh834
2 жыл бұрын
♥️
@peterpenhk
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Hakka, according to my dad, we're the "guest" as we like moving around and therefore considered non-local wherever we are. i.e. the "guest". We move to escape wars and conflicts, in most cases Hakka people ended up in rural areas that no one bothers us i.e. away from cities or fertile lands and hence poor as stated in the video. We really are a group without root (or we take the concept of "hometown" lightly, you don't have to stay within close proximity of your family, unlike most other Chinese people), my great grandpa's brothers all moved to Malay, my grandpa's brothers all moved to Thailand, and finally my father (along with his siblings) moved from mainland China to Hong Kong. And myself studied in the UK and now working in Germany. Big thumbs up for this video!
@isfaqualalam9909
2 жыл бұрын
Reading your comment and watching this video has boosted hope in my own people. My culture comes from a similar, very thrifty and poor background and have suffered a lot of hardship over the past few centuries. We have a lot of diaspora, like the hakka. I hope your people continue to prosper, seeing so makes one feel more vigorous. Literal life fuel, some might say.
@riza-2396
Жыл бұрын
Hak ka 客家 客 is guest 家 is family(or home)
@winnipegdigitalpsychogeogr5958
Жыл бұрын
Hello fellow Hakka Ngin ! I am a Hakka from Guangzhou area now living in Canada. I would agree with your dad's saying of the fortunate fate of Hakka people despite hardships, except I would say Hakka people are strong rooted in their villages and territories. I understand Hakka clan's constant desire to move outward is to make out for the limited resource they could sustain in place - limited by mountainous geographies, lack of transportation resources (by the river / sea), or simply outgrowing of village sites. I would say Hakka culture / people are rooted because these village sites have continued to be occupied and cared for by those who stayed behind (i.e. did not want to or need to move out). And they continue to practice their culture, language, and way of life on these site village sites. Another way to trace your own root is through the often well kept genealogy records from your own clanship. If you have the opportunity, I would highly encourage you to trace your clan's paths of immigration by visiting these village sites and understand your own root. I may be generalizing from my own experience, but nice to cross path with another fellow Hakka Ngin! Wish you happy new year of the rabbit. - Jin
@wtz_under
6 ай бұрын
initially, i found it somewhat strange that the video calls them "jews of china". but i guess it makes sense. there are no natural oil reserves, or much materials or resources found in israel.
@danielzhang1916
3 ай бұрын
@@wtz_under yeah that's not really accurate, they're more like the Roma or other groups that fled wars and stuff
@Darjeelingla
2 жыл бұрын
As an American Peace Corps volunteer in the 70’s, I lived among the Hakka in Malaysia. Very generous, friendly group.
@kelshakes
2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was Hakka from Guangdong. His family fled from their village and started again in Myanmar where he met my grandmother. I'm born in South Africa and a mix of burmese, Ugandan and Chinese. It's amazing to learn more about my grandfather's history
@LuBu1323
Жыл бұрын
I don't know if it's true, but Hakka people are present all over the world due to their habit of exploring new lands.
@shadowmistress999
11 ай бұрын
@@LuBu1323 Hakka or anyone from Guangdong, I guess
@hahahihi6123
11 ай бұрын
@@LuBu1323 yes it's true. Hakka in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, east Timor, Vietnam, mauratious, carrabean, Africa. Whever there is Chinese you damn sure there will be Hakka, hokkien or cantonese
@brittbrat9328
10 ай бұрын
Similar story with me. My family ended up in the US
@mattchen6137
10 ай бұрын
Fam we travel, im hakka Canadian, parents hakka Jamaican hahah. Love mi family😏😎
@jingqiuwu5615
3 жыл бұрын
My grandma is a Hakka. She is a very nice and gentle woman. Her father, Mr Lee Moh Tor, owned a shop making granite manual grinder in Shunde Guangdong, (Now it is under Foshan, Guangdong). When we were young, she washed our clothing and cooked our meals. She lived until the age of 76 years. We missed her dearly.
@winnieh834
2 жыл бұрын
I miss mine as well ♥️
@luislau9338
3 жыл бұрын
I am a Hakka, grew up in China and migrated to the USA as an adult. It is not rude to ask a person if he is Hakka. Once we socially engage with an stranger speaking a language other than Hakka, like Cantonese or Mandarin and we notice a Hakka accent or a particular way the individual is pronouncing a word, that give me a glimpse that he might be a Hakka, then I would ask, are you Hakka.
@seankiong
3 жыл бұрын
those days could be different. like when the hokkien and cantonese is having a civil war.
@gkheng
3 жыл бұрын
this reminds me : 内省人&外省人 😂
@ErniJuliaKok
3 жыл бұрын
LoL, yes, I am Hakka.
@cheesamcheah7640
2 жыл бұрын
"Are you Hakka" is just a joking way of saying "兄弟你也太寒酸了吧" xD
@testxxxx123
2 жыл бұрын
my impression as well. I mean why the video assuming Hakka is necessarily poor? I didn't even know there is a stereotype pertaining to Hakka, and I am Chinese loll
@liongrose1173
4 жыл бұрын
I m Hakka Ngin , 客家人。Its our dialect , so happened to rhyme the same as Cantonese. Hokkien called us Khek lang....
@simonlaw7011
3 жыл бұрын
@@carnival5925 I am Mway Yen Hakka living in Los Angeles , California
@chinkayeok6117
3 жыл бұрын
And Hakka generally good at foreign languages too.
@mystyk5896
2 жыл бұрын
Im malaysian of indian ancestry. I love our local Hakka cuisines especially the Hakka noodles. We malaysians of indian ancestry love Chinese food in general. You can see an interestingly obvious pattern of diners in our local chinese restaurants in terms of timing due to cultural difference in the time each ethnicity eats their dinner. 6-8pm chinese having dinner, 8-10pm indians having dinner, 10-closing chinese having supper with our indian uncles drinking beer...lol
@கோபிசுதாகர்
Жыл бұрын
தமிழா தலைவா நீங்க?
@andromeda582
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. I'm Singaporean Hakka, used to speak it as a child. Our former PM Lee Kuan Yew was also Hakka
@ethanzombatar
4 ай бұрын
Proud to be a Singaporean hakka as well, HAKKA POWER FOREVER ❤
@quentinwong8906
3 жыл бұрын
The Hakkas are amazing people who had a great impact on Chinese civilisation both domestically and abroad. In fact, the Hakkas set up the first ever Chinese republic in Borneo during the Qing dynasty which lasted for a hundred years before Dutch colonisers took them out. Other famous people of Hakka lineage include the Soong sisters, Lee Kwan Yew and Penny Wong.
@hwasiaqhan8923
2 жыл бұрын
Hakkas are northern Chinese immigrants who basically helped colonise rural areas of southern China, previously a lot of southern natives still occupied rural areas when the Hakka came they often fought.
@hanzocloud
2 жыл бұрын
@@hwasiaqhan8923 but Hakka are not tall like the northerners, they are actually short like the southerners
@hwasiaqhan8923
2 жыл бұрын
@@hanzocloud Not really, it depends on the individual, many southerners are tall… and it’s more about the diet, as diet improves people grow taller, Japanese male were by average 146cm in 19th century and they grew significantly taller during and after the Meiji restoration due to improvement of diet with more meat consumption. Would you say the Japanese then and now are unrelated peoples? Obviously not.
@DragonDreamVNY
2 жыл бұрын
There was a bit on the Hakka people in the Hong Kong history museum, though I'm not sure will they keep the exhibit after the new renovations. Mainly about Hakka Vs Punti people. I noticed quite a bit of the last generation still speak Hakka in the northern/New Territories in Hong Kong. Chow Yun Fat, Alex Man Zi Leung, Eric Tsang, Leslie Cheung are all Hakka - Hong Kong stars. They were quite right or, spoke Hakka to eachother.
@joshjonson2368
2 жыл бұрын
We hakka are shang di's chosen people 😎
@MrLantean
3 жыл бұрын
The Hakkas are descended from refugees who fled their home in Huang He region of Northern China and migrated south of the Yangtze River during periods of civil unrest. They settled primarily in rugged hilly regions as the flatlands are already settled by the time they arrived. The hard life make the Hakkas very resilient and strived to improve their standard of living. They are willing to leave their homes to seek their fortunes elsewhere even if they have to leave China to go abroad. In China, many political and military leaders are of Hakka descent. Also many successful Overseas Chinese political figures are of Hakka descent.
@windsong3wong828
2 жыл бұрын
They didn’t settle down south due to civil unrest. The “ barbarians “ came from the north and sacked the capital and was very cruel to the Hakkas. They fled ….
@Freeman-xm7ug
2 жыл бұрын
Sun yet sun is Hakka or Cantonese ?
@MrLantean
2 жыл бұрын
@@Freeman-xm7ug His cultural background is Hakka and Cantonese. He is most likely of both Hakka and Cantonese descent. Guangdong has the largest Hakka population in China and is about 60% of the total Hakka population of China.
@elliekwong3180
Жыл бұрын
@@windsong3wong828 : Rumor has it that they are the true HAN people.
@h0kaki
11 ай бұрын
Both of my parents are hakka from China, they both moved from Hong Kong to South America, then to Europe and now they are back in Hong Kong😂
@amywirth1479
4 жыл бұрын
One of my parents are half Hakka half Jamaican and i want to learn more about Hakka culture
@KCDisney1
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's why I want to learn aswell, because my dad side of the family are Jamaican Chinese.
@jewellui
3 жыл бұрын
Your Hakka side is your mothers or fathers side?
@lesstalk9287
2 жыл бұрын
Me too but never met my father whom was Hakka.
@DragonDreamVNY
2 жыл бұрын
Wow that's quite a good mix. I've distant relatives who are Surinam/Dutch/Hakka Chinese mix. 🤔
@Amidat
2 жыл бұрын
@@KCDisney1 Most of the Chinese that went to Jamaica were Hakka... Not all - but most
@pharmacist5884
2 жыл бұрын
Hakka Chinese has preserved much of the ancient Tang sound from which Korean and Japanese derived their Chinese loanwords from. For example: Mandarin for Japan is Riben while the Japanese say: Nippon. In Hakka this is Ngit Poon (very close to Nippon). There are many examples of Korean and Japanese loanwords that does not resemble Mandarin pronunciation at all, but are strikingly the same when pronounced in Hakka Chinese giving proof Hakka Chinese is much closer to the ancient Tang language than Mandarin.
@yeahboi7562
2 жыл бұрын
Didnt know that. Thanks.
@timetraveller2300
2 жыл бұрын
nope. very subjective and misleading. actually in Wu dialect Japan also sounds like nippon.
@DragonDreamVNY
2 жыл бұрын
Southern Hakka sounds nothing like the northern 🤔 at least my mum understands none when documentaries on Hakka in the central/northern mainland were shown back in the day. Current Hakka has borrowed a lot from Cantonese too, maybe from other dialects in the Guongdong region.
@wwei4194
2 жыл бұрын
That actually applies to a lot of other chinese dialect too.
@lemon2524
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of southern dialects are old Chinese so the language is similar.
@georgeli3807
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this video together. Very informative. Am a Hakka too. Parents from Meixian, immigrated to Mauritius and I am now living in Melbourne, Australia. Had a chance to visit my Dad's hometown a few years back. Very emotional welcome from relatives still living there.
@JieySky
3 жыл бұрын
Grandparents from meixian! Hello from SG =)
@stevejen3416
3 жыл бұрын
Same here. Taipu Meixian...grandparents
@Estirvana
2 жыл бұрын
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS. My neighbours are Hakka and I would often visit their store buying candies like white rabbit or perserved/pickled fruit as a kid. I am extremely happy for them as the last time I visited Mauritius they were able to send their kids to nice western places like Australia. Mauritius is built on immigrants and I have seen so many hard working people from different cultures. I won't lie, it has been difficult me for me as I can feel generations of social pressure as I am the first truly educated person in my family line. I am.. too familiar with saving face. I hope you're doing well.
@sjelucten7150
Жыл бұрын
Your parents might know Hakka family in Mauritius Tzang Man Poen.
@chunlansinggen2354
Ай бұрын
@georgeli,I thought that I 'my the only Mtian reading this. Also HakKa parents from Meixia
@franshady1042
5 жыл бұрын
Im Hakka from Bali Island, Indonesia
@ukazap
3 жыл бұрын
Nyi ho mo?
@peterthien1297
3 жыл бұрын
From time immemorials, Chinese people have writen history about their past adventures! But where are the records of Hakka 's history of their being in China. As a small boy in the 1940s I heard story of how Hakka fougt against the Mongolian invasion of China by a fellow Hakka from Canton Province from where my Grandparents who were cheated to migrate to Sabon, British North Borneo to work on the estate to clear the Jungles to plant rubber trees. To prove my ancestor Home land; their home was Boklo, Sakpar, Lunsui hang, Canton .
@franshady1042
3 жыл бұрын
@@ukazap Im good. I cant speak either Mandarin or Hakka.
@fradesjo
3 жыл бұрын
Sit pau mang, Ako?
@mollyliew4506
3 жыл бұрын
@@peterthien1297 in .
@mattchen6137
10 ай бұрын
Cool video bro. Im hakka born Canadian, parents are hakka Jamaicans. Lol we travel for sure!!! Love yall hakka's 😏😜😊
@Bluebeanzz
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Hopo Hakka 河婆客家 from Sarawak, Malaysia...
@doriswaddington2418
3 жыл бұрын
I am Hakka too from Kuching Sarawak but has lived in New Zealand and England. Now in Cambridge Uk
@Zakaius
3 жыл бұрын
O hopoh hak! Chika ngin!
@jiraiya80
3 жыл бұрын
Im Fujian Hakka from Selangor
@alliee7433
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you...very informative and easy listen for those who are interested in learning about Hakka People. I am 2nd generation Chinese American from Meixian. My mother who spoke Hakka Cantonese in Chinatown was ridiculed by the toishan and punti canto speaking ppl. In my youth I remember feeling embarrassed and responded to her canto in public. As I became an adult I realized that it was sadly due to their ignorance and fear of something unfamiliar to them. HAKKA people stand proud of our unique and colorful heritage. There’s a vlog on famous HAKKA people.
@weili1351
3 жыл бұрын
First gen from Meixian in Michigan, still speak Meixian Hakka dialect with my father, brother and cousins in Toronto, New Jersey etc. Have to encourage my first gen American son and daughter learn Mandarin instead of Hakka since it's more useful for them. Unfortunately I am not good with Mandarin either since I was brought up in English language schools and did not have special education in Mandarin.
@rockets3744
3 жыл бұрын
Hey I’m 4th generation from meixian (meizhou) too. I’m in Canada tho what a small world!
@VgoldV
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Hakka people in Toishan living in these long boats with black cloth tops along the rivers. I believe they were mainly fishermen. I am curious where they migrated to since I didn't noticed any left when I visited.
@feifeijay
2 жыл бұрын
@@rockets3744 i live in canada too
@hujanair2
2 жыл бұрын
Holyshit me too. I'm 2nd gen also from meixian, but i live in indonesia. My grandfather was cantonese.
@bennettbullock9690
2 жыл бұрын
Also, I remember living in Guangdong hearing the story of a Pakistani who effortlessly learned Mandarin and various dialects. A serious point of admiration for a gwailou who struggled with Mandarin for two years, and who could only bust out the Cantonese in heated moments. But one thing that dumbfounded people was that he learned "kejiahua", Hakka.
@danielzhang1916
3 ай бұрын
some Hakka migrated to India, so he might have learned it from the community there
@CashCatMoney
4 жыл бұрын
Trying to track down my ancestry so I found this very helpful! I connect more to my Cambodian half, so I need to play catchup on this side of my family!
@nfspbarrister5681
3 жыл бұрын
Well, many Hakka royalties married to our elder kingdom and empire royalties in Majapahit and Kutai Kertanegara days, so Hakka people already rooted in Indonesia since 12-13 AD. Their cuisine are the basic of many our traditional cuisine. We often called them "peranakan" alongside the Kek, the Cantons etc.
@franzthegardener6978
3 жыл бұрын
I am Hakka and I currently live in Malacca, Malaysia. My family originally was from a town further north called Kajang. I still speak Hakka relatively fluent. However both my kids are unable to speak it.
@kimwoo8870
3 жыл бұрын
Hakka is NOT a Cantonese pronunciation. It's pronunciation in Hakka itself. And Hakka is NOT Guest House. It is Guest People period. Hak = Guest, Ka = A group of people. 家 (Ka) as in 大家, 家族and NOT as in 住家! Nevertheless, thanks for producing this meaningful video. 🙏
@djintotjandra247
4 жыл бұрын
NGAI HE HAKKA NGIN. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO. YOU ARE AWESOME...:-)
@alainlie729
3 ай бұрын
ngai yu he!
@SoldierDrew
Жыл бұрын
The Hakka also had very unique, strong, martial arts that they cultivated in order to defend themselves from bigoted attackers whom targeted them for being Hakka. Their round castle community buildings were tactically built for defense against violent assault groups. Smart, very strong, people.
@PandaPhied
3 жыл бұрын
u missed out 1 of the famous & distinctive Hakka cuisine - Lei Cha... fragrant tea mixed with lots of different veggies & rice... not everyone enjoys it but for those who do, it's awesome & nothing else comes close...
@veronicayong9067
Жыл бұрын
lei cha my favourite too
@KCDisney1
3 жыл бұрын
My dads side of the family are Jamaican Chinese and I think I learnt that in Jamaica, most Chinese Jamaicans are Hakka. So its possible I have Hakka ancestry
@Asianometry
3 жыл бұрын
That’s pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing
@neeneepatrice
3 жыл бұрын
Same here!
@gofitness4284
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder why there is so much hakka in Jamaica ? Any specific reason?
@megariesta
3 жыл бұрын
@@gofitness4284 same, I’m wondering the same thing too
@jewellui
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting surprised a few people mentioned Jamaica on this video
@blah5947
Жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was Hakka from Mongolia the g was 7’4 and had 5 wives thank god for these genes ,im 6’2 and sexy asf 😂
@HKChineseCanadian
3 жыл бұрын
I am Hakka from Meizhou, Guangdong. That was actually my Grandparents who left for Hong Kong, Taiwan and now settle in Toronto for the past 60 years. The Hakka are all over the world and the food is divine. I find Hakka women quite attractive compared to other Cantonese and Fujianese women if that makes sense. Hakka are fiercely proud of being traditional Chinese. They are represented in all level of Chinese government due to their respect for higher education. I wonder how long this Hakka distinction will last since language education, wealth, transportation and widespread pop culture seem to be making Chinese all over the world very homogeneous.
@hankeat
3 жыл бұрын
@@dlk3904 I thought Cantonese was the one that losing by one vote.
@taichiwinchester1102
3 жыл бұрын
@@hankeat There's also a version of it for Southwestern Mandarin. I think those are just myth. To be fair Southwestern Mandarin is the largest subgroup of Mandarin and it's surprisingly resilient to the official Mandarin dialect.
@林T-k5m
3 жыл бұрын
Even in taiwan there isnt much people speaking Hakka anymore. I am an overseas taiwanese and my grandparents never really taught me which us quite a shame. Less and less people willing to learn this language
@rockets3744
3 жыл бұрын
I’m part Hakka and my family is from meixian (meizhou), gaundong too !!! They immigrated to Laos and then we settled in Vancouver Canada. Im bragging but I think my family is pretty attractive compare to other Chinese. What a small world!!
@QASIMARA
3 жыл бұрын
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@mkchong9393
3 жыл бұрын
It's good to learn the history of my ancestors.. Love: Hakka from Malaysia 🇲🇾
@gofitness4284
3 жыл бұрын
Hi fellow hakka from Malaysia 😁😁
@sorafromgenshin
3 жыл бұрын
hey teach me i want to speak hakka with my boss lol
@weixiang6240
3 жыл бұрын
@@sorafromgenshin you can say "Ji Pek" to your boss😜 it a way of greeting for us in hakka.
@SunnyIlha
11 ай бұрын
You have very noticeable Hakka ancestry shaped eyebrows, and high round forehead, and upside down water droplet face shape. Very beautiful. I'm Hakka too, my grandfather. I'm born in Hawai'i, third generation Hawai'i Islander. I have only brothers, (all boys, siblings), but if I had sister, she would look just like you.
@SunnyIlha
11 ай бұрын
There are many Hakka with Chong name in Hawai'i. I found it good to learn more about Hakka history here, too.
@陳柏諺-t6q
3 жыл бұрын
There is an ongoing joke in Taiwan that the Hakka people are "thrifty". There are so many memes based on this lol. And as a half Hakka I find them amusing.
@danshakuimo
2 жыл бұрын
I used to think being thrifty was characteristic of Chinese culture as a whole (I guess compared to Americans it is still) but maybe it's more characteristic of Hakka specifically. Then again I would think a lot of the Chinese people I know are probably at least part Hakka, and I suspect that I am also.
@danielzhang1916
3 ай бұрын
@@danshakuimo it is Chinese culture as a whole, our ancestors remember all the wars and famine, we were taught to save for the future
@celestialstar124
3 жыл бұрын
It's never rude to ask any han people if they are hakka. To us, it's just our dialect n the state our ancestors are from. It's just like asking someone are u from italy or france.
@haruzanfuucha
5 жыл бұрын
Ever thought about doing a video about the Taiwanese Aboriginals? It’s interesting how they always vote for the KMT because they view the DPP as a Hoklo supremacist group which has attempted to appropriate indigenous status through so-called "blood nationalism" (claiming they are different from mainland Han because they may have an Aboriginal grandmother and so they are just as “native” as the Aboriginals, like white colonialists in the United States who claimed native American ancestry even if it was often untrue and they continued to violently oppress native Americans but they did so to distance themselves from Britain and justify their ownership of indigenous land). While the KMT are more “practical” (a focus on business), emphasize a pan-Chinese identity which pushes down Hoklo chauvinism and they do not appropriate Aboriginal identity (instead some will say they are not true Taiwanese because only indigenous people should be seen as that which has been positively received by Taiwanese Aboriginals; similar to how many non-native Hawaiians will say they are not actually Hawaiians because only native Hawaiians are true Hawaiians). In a contrast to many Taiwanese Hoklo, the Aboriginals also prefer KMT rule over the Japanese rule that came before and the Hoklo-dominance before that. Despite the KMT's assimilation efforts on them, they also improved infrastructure and built effective support networks for Aboriginal communities. The Aboriginals have always had terrible relations with the Hoklo (but comparatively okay relations with the Hakka and waishengren) and the Japanese committed numerous pogroms against Aboriginals so many Aboriginal people hold anti-Japanese sentiments which further aligns themselves with the KMT. To them, cross-strait relations hold very little importance because either option of Taiwan being independent or reunited with mainland China would be the same - they will be ruled by a Chinese majority.
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
It’d be definitely a point Of interest. Just haven’t had the time recently to make new work. But I’d be curious about what they think of ccp rule as compared to the status quo.
@thomaschinkeeonn1890
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting to read yr comment.
@sammyg8011
Жыл бұрын
4 years later, here I am crying over a comment that is so comprehensive!
@lukelazarusarnold5614
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this informative video. My wife is Hakka and our children are half-Hakka - the video will help us learn more about this heritage.
@ygus3030
2 жыл бұрын
Popular Hakka food is Lui Cha, consist of a soup made of tea leaf and peanut, with many type of veggies toping. In SE Asia, it is added with dried Shrimp and Anchovy fish (ikan bilis/teri, dried small fish).
@EddyWoon
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. My paternal grandparents are Hakka and they came from Shanghai, moved to Malaysia where both my father and myself were born. We then moved to Singapore and then to Australia. Reportedly when I was about 5 or 6 years old, I could speak Hakka quite well. I am now trying to learn it again after not using it for about 40 years. I now live and work in a small country town where I am the sole Chinese guy, consequently I can say that every Chinese in my town is a Hakka.
@alisv4817
Жыл бұрын
Can I ask which country town is this in Australia?
@frikandelkroket9335
4 жыл бұрын
Hakka Netherlands 🇳🇱!!!!! Protect Hakka for the next generation.
@trustnoone318
4 жыл бұрын
In England the 2nd generation of hakka children dont or cant Speak Hakka but understand hakka and the 3rd generation cant speak or understand hakka language
@fawaka6664
3 жыл бұрын
Your parents surely come from Suriname or have been there?
@chanboonyee6788
3 жыл бұрын
MOST HAKKA WOMEN IN MALAYSIA HAVE INTERMARRIED WITH INDIAN MEN.MAYBE,THEY PREFER INDIAN MEN.
@seankiong
3 жыл бұрын
@@trustnoone318 same here, i can understand but not able to speak. due to my mom and dad communicate with use in cantonese.
@seankiong
3 жыл бұрын
@@chanboonyee6788 not that i know of, but i happen to have a lot of indian friends. i guess we are just friendly without boundary
@zl9764
2 жыл бұрын
The Hakka are extremely welcoming people!!! Hakka people treat ‘strangers’ that are also Hakka as family instantly when they meet
@djohanarifin1617
2 жыл бұрын
i agree, as i experienced when meeting a hakkanese in Thailand, when he knew i am also a hakkanese during chatting then he rejected when i wanted to pay the bill of a dinner in his restaurant !
@christong888
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the interesting video about the origins of the Hakka. I think you should of discussed the 5th migration of Hakka to areas all around the world whether it be the US, or throughout the British Commonwealth realms (through Hong Kong), throughout Portuguese territories (through Macau) or elsewhere. Also at the end, I don't think cultural appropriation is a real thing since all cultures relate to each other and gain/lose something whether it be ideas/customs/traditions/beliefs in that interaction between the 2; after all, all cultures are capable of adaptation to suite their needs.
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
The Chinese overseas diaspora is interesting but I don’t have anything to add right now about it. The video by Wendover Productions about the Hong Kong handover is nice though.
@dtbetter2277
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. I’m Hakka but never learn to speak it. Looking forward to more videos.
@Asianometry
5 жыл бұрын
Many of these distinct dialects are dying out as people transition to standard northern mandarin. It’s quite sad.
@enzoh7763
4 жыл бұрын
@@Asianometry , That's a sad reality, many distinct dialect and sub-dialect, are going out of existence. . In my family, we speak our hakka dialect at home .
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