Hakka and "Yab6gung1 hau4liung2"

[96981339r@polyu.edu.hk (cflau)]

Dear Mr. Guo,

I read your opinion on the forum and I also feel sorry to see "Hakka" being
viewed as a biological race.

If you can read Chinese, please refer to the article of Zhao et al (1991) on
the blood immunoglobin comparison of people in China. You will be astonished
to see that the blood sample from Hakka people (Mexian) is not significantly
different from Cantonese (Guangzhou), She people (jinhong) and Southwest
Mandarin speaking people (Liuzhou). Just go for a blood check for yourself
and see if you are inside this range to be ranked
Hakka-Cantonese-She-Southwest Mandarin. However, this does not automatically
prove that you are "Hakka", because you are inside this biological range
only. Hakka is a socialinguistical group. The only "proof" is that you
believe yourself to be Hakka, and the best think is that you live like a
Hakka and SPEAK Hakka.

I think I need not go checking because my father is Hakka. He is 84 and
speaks only Hakka. and I am speaking Hakka everyday within my family,
including my children who are ten and eight years old. It is not easy to
keep children speaking fluent hakka in Hong Kong becvause the people turn a
curious blick to you if you speak this "exotic" tongue in the public. I like
Mr. Chungs story of "Yab6gung1 hau4 liung2" because may people respect the
Hakka culture just like Mr. Yab6 respect the dragon, but if he is asked to
practise the minimal requirement of Hakka life, i.e. speaking Hakka, then he
got afraid. If the Hakka language dies, I cannot see the difference between
a Hakka and non-Hakka. 

Liu zinfad