Hakka people facts for kids

Indonesia Hakka Museum

Hakka people (Hakka language: Hak-kâ; Mandarin Chinese: Kèjiā) are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people. They live mainly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian in China and speak the Hakka language. The Hakkas have had an important influence on Chinese and overseas Chinese history: in particular, they have been a source of revolutionary, political and military leaders. Some of them were Deng Xiaoping, Lee Kuan Yew and Thaksin Shinawatra. Hakka people is a group of people that always move from place to place.

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Hakka farming couple during by Boxer Codex (1590)
Hakka language distribution in mainland China and Taiwan.
Hakka Chinese sign
Taiwanese Hakka opera at the Zhongyuan festival.
Hakkapop festival
Tianluokeng Tulou cluster. Hukeng Town, Yongding County, Fujian.
Typical traditional hillside tombs. Hukeng Town, Yongding County, Fujian.
Meizhou Prefecture (in yellow) in Guangdong Province, where Xingning and Meixian are located.
Christian missionaries with Hakka students of a girls' school in Waichow, Guangdong, 1921.
Gun port of Chengqilou in a Hakka Fujian Tulou.
A firearm for defence against enemies in a Hakka Fujian Tulou.
Hakka women in traditional attire in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, pre-1945.
Taoyuan Hakka Culture Hall, Taiwan
Hakka Round House in Miaoli County.
Muar Hakka Association in Johor.
A mixed wedding of East Timorese and Hakka in East Timor, where the four flower girls and the mother of the bride on the far right are of Hakka descent.
Tsai Ing-wen, a Taiwanese Hakka descent, President of Republic of China (Taiwan), attended the "Lecturer Hakka Langugae Radio Broadcasting", to give a speech.

Hakka people facts for kids

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