Taiwanese Hakkas

[Kelvin & Henri <kachie-hakit@account-pro.com>]

I've seen a video on Taiwanese Hakkas. It covers a few counties in Taiwan,
and focuses on the rural areas. Taiwan is so beautiful, the arial view of
the place and Hakka homes is fantastic.

The Hakkas in Taiwan speak different dialects, and each group practices
different customs, like feng shui, daoism, and the shape of their homes is
built differently, with symbolic meaning. Some of them, while in China,
spoke a different Chinese language, upon migrating to Taiwan, they picked
up Hakka. They migrated in groups of families, from different areas in
Guangdong. Family clans exist in Taiwan, a common custom that was in
existence in China. The video was well done, and the producer even went
back to China to show the original home villages of the Taiwanese, but the
family records in China of the Hakkas were destroyed during the cultural
revolution, sad to say. A group of Hakkas in Taiwan produce their own Hakka
Opera, which looks like the Beijing Opera(same type of costumes), but the
performers speak in Hakka.

H.A.