Re: hakka: A Hakka writer in Taiwan

[Poong <fspg@itsa.ucsf.edu>]

This was such an interesting post.
However, I noticed that the Hakka words were very different from the hakka
I learned as a child. How many different Hakka dilects are there?
--Francis Poong

At 10:29 PM 7/13/98 +0800, CHUNG Yoon-Ngan wrote:
>
>
>   A Hakka writer in Taiwan
>
>  On page five in a Taiwanese newspaper called Central Daily News (Zhong  
>Yang Ri4 Bao4) dated 15th June 1998 there is an article by Zhang Fang4 
>about a novel written by a Hakka author whose name is Zeng Shu-Zhen.
>The book is entitled "Tong4 Xi Qiu Shan4" (my translation: Sadly
>Agonizing Over The Lost Of A Summer Fan).
>
>  Zeng Shu-Zhen is a Hakka woman who was born and grew up in a Hakka 
>village near the Hakka city of Miao2 Li4 which is about eighty 
>kilometers south of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. Her book is full of 
>Hakka nursery rhymes and ancient Hakka language, according to Zhang 
>Fang4. She also described the industrious, virtuous and ethical 
>morality of village Hakka women.       
>
>Some of her Hakka language (in pinyin by me):
>
>By Zeng Shu-Zhen                   my lousy translation
>----------------                   ----------------------
>
>Yi Zhang Tai2,                      A table,
>Si4 Si4 Fang Fang Yi Zhang Tai2,    A square table,
>Nian2 Nian2 Du4 Shu An3 Ye3 Lai2.   Yearly I used it for studying.
>
>Nin2 Du4 San Nian2 Bu4 Shi2 Zi4,    You after studying for three years 
>                                    knew not a character.
>Wo3 Du4 San Nian2 Jin4 Xiu4 Cai2.   I after studying for three years
>                                    became a scholar. 
>
>
>Xian Sheng Jiao4 Wo3 Ren2 Zhi Chu,  Teacher taught me human beings in the 
>                                    beginning were,  
>An3 Jiao4 Xian Sheng Da3 Shan Zhu,  I taught teacher how to hunt wild pig,
>Shan Zhu Piao Guo4 He2,             The wild pig crossed the river,
>Die Dao4 Xian Sheng Bei4 Tuo2 Tuo2. Teacher felt down with a sore back. 
>
>
>Hope I can get that book from a Chinese bookshop in China town.
>
>CHUNG Yoon-Ngan.
>
>
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