Changting: The Hakka Capital 

I’m a New York City- born and raised Chinese American. My mother is Hakka and while I never learned to speak Hakka since Mandarin is what was spoken at home, I was heavily influenced by my mother’s ways. I experienced her courageous, hard-working, talented, and kindness and am proud that I am half Hakka.

I am a Hakka.from Malacca.Malaysia. My grandfather migrated from.Lufeng of Guangdong Province in.1928. I can speak fluent Hakka and.still.communicate in.Hakka with.my.mother who is in. her 90 .

I am a third generation Hakka in Malaysia. I still speak the Hakka dialect (Fuichiu subdialect) and we still cook many Hakka delicacies.

I’m very privileged had an opportunity to work in the Hakka community in guangdong. Knowing very few cultures tradition about Hakka, as well as unique dialect of Hakka. The Hakka food is extremely delicious, and local Hakka people are very friendly.

I am a Hakka from Singapore. My father came from Shanghang, Fujian province.

We are happy to see young people introducing the culture of the Hakka people. The Hakka people deserved high respect because of their hardworking and helpful character.

I'm Hakka from Jamaica!!!! My Family is originally from SheZhen!!

I'm Hakka from Mauritius island. YanYan I do admire you for your dedication to promote our Hakka Heritage, culture and history. From the bottom of our heart ❤️ we feel grateful. By the way, there was a very noble personality in our island you may not notice. His name is Sir Moilin Ahchuen. I'm willing to supply material to you if you are interested.

Hello i am hakka from tahiti , my grand father came from loongkong a city 100 km from hong kong, i still speak hakka ( speaked hakka with hakka from guyane, australia , Hainan)

Very informative. Thanks for video

I learned about Hakka(客家) for the first time when we travelled to Penang, Malaysia. I was fascinated about Hakka from dining Hakka food to discover that Hakka people pronounce many Chinese characters as Koreans do. I felt there has to be some link. There aren't many studies made on this area but I think there is a huge discoveries to be made. I am too old to do that now, near 90 yrs old.

I'm from Argentina🇦🇷 and many Hakkas comes here and open supermarkets. Thanks for the video!

thank you for sharing the information 🙏

What a nice video in English!! I am hakka from indonesia. My grandparents are from Meixian Guangdong. I have been to Taxia village and tulous in Fujian province, the place where Lin Dan was born ❤

Greeting from Vietnam

I heard the Hakka capital was Meizhou in Northwest Guangdong. Thanks for sharing this amazing place. I especially love the maps and the explanation of history. YOU HAVE A LOYAL NEW FOLLOWER! :) I dream of going to historic places of China someday but I think it is too complicated, as of now for an American to go there. I am living in Borneo Malaysia right now, Sabah, and many Hakka migrated here in the past. They created some amazing food like Sabah Chili Pan Mee which is one of my favorite dishes ON EARTH! Keijia people are so nice and so cool!

good. thank you

I AM HAKKA NGIN FROM AUSTRALIA…GRANDPARENTS FROM GUANGDONG PROVINCE…

So much thank for your valuable history for the story to let us know.

Firstable, thank you Yan Yan for this infomative video about Hakka people. A part of me was Cháozhōu (Father side) and Hakka (Mother side) i was born as Overseas, on some small island in Indonesia, where the Overseas there dominated by Hakka who's speak Fui chew variant. I always fascinated with my Hakka root because this Dialect is the only Chinese dialect I capable spoken. Not a single a word in Cháozhōu dialect 😂 I'd like to add some more information about successful Overseas Hakka people (if you don't mind) from Indonesia : 1. Cheong Fatt Tze / Zhāngbìshì ( 張弼士) , originally from Dabu, Meizhou. It said when he died in Batavia (Jakarta now) 1916. The British colony raise a flag half pole to honour him. His Wine business still running now adays in China (Changyu Castel brand) 2. Low Fang Pak / Luófāng bó ( 羅芳伯) who established Lanfong/ Lanfang Republic on Borneo Island, 1777. 3. Tjong A Fie / Zhāng'āhuī ( 張阿輝 ) originally from Meixian, Guangdong. Successful build his business from scratch, friend with North Sumatra Sultan (Deli Sultan) and Dutch Colony, This guy name was more famous than Cheong Fat Tze, event the late Fat Tze was richer. Tjong A Fie died in Medan (North Sumatra) 1921. His Mansion still preserved until these day as Tjong A Fie Museum. and probably there's some more names that I forgot to mention 😊 Cheers.

What an informative video with excellent content!!!

Just some history nerd info and I discussed this with Chinese people before. I don't think it translates correctly so many people label things that are older than even 100 years old, "ancient". Ancient history - Is everything before about the year 500 AD of recorded history which goes back about 5,000 years. It is from the invention of writing and the fall of the Ancient Western part of the Roman Empire. Pre history - Anything before the invention of writing spanning 100,000s of thousands of years. Medieval history (or) The Middle Ages - From the years about 500 AD- 1500 AD. 1500 - 1800 AD Early Modern History Or just 1500-present is known as Moden History.

娓娓道来，很好的解说！

Your presentation is impressive, carefully researched, despite not a Hakka! 👍 I am a Malaysian Hakka residing in Australia. My parents came from somewhere in Danshui, Huizhou, Guangdong.

Well researched video, showing Hakka settlements. Inspiration for visiting these places. 🙏 thank you.

overseas chinese and hakka are different, i do learn plenty from your informative videos about china. Hakka capital ? thought it just people that lived in rural regions

Inspirational and conversational place to visit and connect to ancestors who migrated from here to In Hawaii; timeless in place and name🙏

我认为，将建筑技术传入日本的古代中国人是客家人。他们居住的地区和日本一样，都是炎热潮湿的地区，适合木结构建筑。日本乡村有很多客家风格的房屋。另外，和服的起源是孙武的衣服，我不认为这是巧合。

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赤溪镇是广东台山仅有的纯客家镇，是台山唯一的纯客家人聚居地，讲客家话（也会讲普通话、广州话、台山话），保持着完整的客家习俗，秉承着客家的优良传统和独特文化

le happy merchant capital

Most Hakka people in Indonesia live in Bangka Belitung and Singkawang.

Good content to learn about Hakka.

So Hakka noodles very famous in India is named after this place / tribe???

We are Tang people. That is what was taught to us by my paternal and maternal grandparents

Hakka Nyin

The Hakka capital must be in 河南Henan province since they originate from there

It’s a beautiful ancient town. 👍👍😍❤️

The particularity of our family is that the nail of our little toe is divided in two parts. I know that in a north region of China, some people have the same particularity.

Hi Yan Yan, glad that RU-vid pushed your contents and learned some interesting info’s about Hakka people history, thank you. I m a Hakka myself, surname Yap, a 4th generation Chinese born in Malaysia. My ancestor from Sha Keng, Hui Yang, Hui Zhou and have visited my ancestor Tulou once but no one there seems to know exactly from which linage my great grandfather originated from cause those relatives that knows my great grandfather had all pass away at the time of my visit. It has been over 50 years now since my great grandfather pass away and over 40 years prior to my visit there. Is there any chances to trace the linage from any government departments document if I don’t have my great grandfather father name but only my great grandfather mother name?

Thanks for sharing. Are you a history graduate? You give us lots of insights and knowledge that we are unaware

hello, my great grandparents were Hakka in China. they had gone down to Cambodia as traders. Later, they made their fortune and helped all the Hakka who came from China. Can you tell me where Hakka came from before arriving near Guangdong? it seems that they came from Manchuria? Thank you so much.

I would argue that the Imperial exam hasn't really ended, but today evolved into the revered Goakoa Exam. Meritocracy is still being practiced pretty much as it has been 1300 years ago.

Isn’t the capital meizhou???

Why are the Hakka says, that they originating only from Han's when Mingxi ordinary peaples considers that they have origines connected to Hun-s, too... I am think soo, becuase one of my father ancestors, had come from China...

I am from Singapore. The surname "Chong" and "Chin" 95% are Hakka.

13:50 That is a beautiful watchtower! When was it built (I assume before the Ming Great Wall, 1500s, since you said that these hollow watchtowers inspired the ones on the Great Wall)? How old is the city wall in general?

Все представители народа хакка, должны знать, что родиной хакка является корея ( Чосон) В разные времена корейцы переселялись на юг.китая, а от туда на Тавань, Сингапур и другие страны мира.

hakka capital is Meizhou

Thank you for presenting this work, and if I may as is there an eco-tourism in this Hakka area that you have been presenting? Sincerely Sar Kong

from linguistic point of view, hakka has so much mandarin soundings that i suspect they were originally from the south, millions of them moved north following the taipin 's army coat tail and families, they lived in the north for a while hence had to learn mandarin, but couple generation passed, they moved back south as the taipin started to lose battles and they themselves were purged by northerners, and some northerners who had relation with also moved to south with them, hence one can see many of them moved back south in successive waves, ...today one can still hear them speak with northern influences, i.e. heavily peasant southerner tongue blended with mandarin accent ! Mystery solved. you hear from here first.

Now, l am in France

I know Ngai and my dna states that I have ~25% Chinese Dai

福建龍岩市長汀縣 世界客家首府

We are龙川Hakka

I thought it was meizhou

What does Hakka mean?

Meizhou is not supposed to be Capital

I am sorry, it's m'y great grand father.

Hakka are Kithan/kithai /Cathay People. They married into noble Chinese houses, which formed Sui and Tang Dynasty. They followed their ideas, Not Chinese. But made plenty of claims as Han Chinese. Examples like Tang dowager promoting Hua Mulan ballad, who was Kithan xianbei against Rouran xianbei, as very “Han Chinese” like, to be accepted into China. Note how Disney promoted Hua mulan. Hakka have western bloodlines. Blond hair quite afew. But Tang and Hakka in truth flouted established Han Chinese principles and practices, like Confucian, as well as Taoist ones. Led to constant decline of China up to now. They likely do not acknowledge/revere/respect Yellow Emperor as founding establishment of China. Which all Chinese do. Their “own” idea. The Tang Dynasty maternal Kithan side, schemed and overthrew Tang, and took over western stretches of north China from east,somewhere above Korea. But the jurchens(jin) in turn took over eastern stretches of North China, leaving Kithans the Western stretch. Until the Mongols. Who I think were totally disgusted with them, and razed them barring Buddhist monasteries, to the ground. Southern Song China was strictly Han Chinese....until Song fell. And Kithan Hakka made their way into Han Chinese lands. Building fortress houses for some reason. Southern China was already settled. No idea why Kithan had to make their way there, from wherever they came from. Whereupon at a point, they plotted to massacre Cantonese people, for their lands. Was some collusion with Manchuria Qing. But after which Manchuria Qing sided with Cantonese against Hakka. Trust issues I Guess. Just like Lee Kuan Yew and Thaksin Shinawatra? Lee Kuan Yew did, and intended a lot of good. But it was led astray. Shinawatra? If you kept with the news, you’d know how it went. More revealing is in how they tried to bribe opinion in southern Thailand with over exorbitant rice prices, which were not requested by Farmers, and unaffordable by government or common sense. Lots of farmers were left hanging as a consequence at that time. Question of self dignity and actual worth....versus an overtopped unrequested indulgence, I Guess. Glad to see Thailand pretty steady at the moment, considering factors and comparing other states. Hope it stays. There appears to be a build up of Hakka blooded offsprings there.

Lee Kuan Yew was not a Hakka . He was a Peranakan .

Hakka is not chinese. Hakka is minority ethic group just likes Tibetan. Independence of Cantonia and MinYuet.

And the next generation will no longer speak their mother tongue