Re: I am a Hakka too

[sllee <sllee@asiawind.com>]

Bai,

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SL Lee
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, gzbai wrote:

> Dear sirs,
> 
> I am a Hakka too. I am very glad to read this web page about my people.
> I 'd like to exchange my ideas with you.
> 
> 1.  Hakka are very similar to Japanese, because both got influnce from
> ancient Chinese. We  Hakka are pure ancient Han people, so we keep most
> ancient Chinese culture, and Japan, because it is isolate islands, their
> culture changed little, so we are much more similar.
>     But we can not say Hakka set up the Japanese culture. Xu Fu took
> 3000 people to Japan, but they were not Hakka at that time, even thought
> their relatives stayed in China became Hakka more than 1,000 years
> later.
>      Why the Hakka and Japanese are so similar, I think we should
> consider their living environment.
> We all know  Japan is a country lack in nature source, So Japanese must
> WORK HARD.And Japan is in danger of earthquake all the time. So the
> Japanese do not fear death. Japanese is one of the most BRAVE nations in
> the world, also  because Japan had bee  long time in civil war, a lot of
> local governments fighted against each other, coward can not survive,
> every one must fight to live, to survive, they must be brave.  And
> because Japanese have been soldiers for long time, they are ACTION
> people, they can THINK and then to DO. The third is Japan is isolated
> islands, very small space for them to avoid others, so they need to
> learn how to live together in small space. They must be LOYAL to their
> group. Civil war emphasize these charactors.
> 
> About Hakka, our ancestors fled from north, both moving and settling
> were very difficult and dangerous, only the strong  and brave survived,
> we had no pity to coward, to weak. We had struggles with our native
> neighbours in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Jiangxi provices for  a
> long time, we have to be BRAVE, or we can not survive. And because we
> are late comer, so we mostly live in mountain area, very poor nature
> environment for economic actitives, we have to WORK HARD. We all know we
> Hakka people have our castle house, we live in the shadow of war every
> day, and a big family live in a castle, very small space.    We must be
> LOYAL to our group. These 300 years' Hakka history following struggles
> and war, we are  ACTION people too. No other Chinese group like we Hakka
> live in war for so long time in recent history. We are similar to
> Japanese very much.
> 
> I have a feeling that most other Chinese have some kind slave like
> charactor, but we Hakka are free people.
> 
> 2. It is said Li Guang Yao's family only live in Singapo for 3
> generations, his grandfather were from Mei Sian directly, not from
> Indonesia. Chinese all have family history books, perhaps you can send
> an e-mail to his family to make it clear.
> 
> I hope to make friend with other Hakka people through your help.
> 
> Bai Yun (Daniel)
>