34 Facts About Hakka Taiwanese

1.

Genetic studies have shown that the Hakka Taiwanese people are largely descended from North Han Chinese.

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2.

Hakka Taiwanese people have had significant influence on the course of modern Chinese and overseas Chinese history; in particular, they have been a source of many government and military leaders—in 1984, over half of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo were Hakka Taiwanese.

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3.

Hakka Taiwanese language is the most closely related to Gan and is sometimes classified as a variety of Gan, with a few northern Hakka Taiwanese varieties even being partially mutually intelligible with southern Gan.

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4.

The Hakka Taiwanese people have a distinct identity from the Cantonese people.

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5.

Hakka Taiwanese culture have been largely shaped by the new environment which they had to alter many aspects their culture to adapt, which helped influence their architecture and cuisine.

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6.

Hakka Taiwanese Chinese is the native Chinese variety of the Hakka Taiwanese people.

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7.

Hakka Taiwanese Chinese is the closest Chinese variety to Gan Chinese in terms of phonetics, with scholars studies consider the late Old Gan together with Hakka Taiwanese Chinese and the Tongtai dialect of Jianghuai Mandarin to have been the lingua franca of the Southern Dynasties.

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8.

Hakka Taiwanese cuisine is known for the use of preserved meats and tofu as well as stewed and braised dishes.

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9.

Hakka Taiwanese people built several types of tulou and peasant fortified villages in the mountainous rural parts of far western Fujian and adjacent southern Jiangxi and northern Guangdong regions.

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10.

Religious practices of Hakka Taiwanese people are largely similar to those of other Han Chinese.

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11.

Hakka Taiwanese populations are found in 13 out of the 27 provinces and autonomous regions of mainland China.

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12.

Tradition states that the early Hakka Taiwanese ancestors traveling from north China entered Fujian first, then by way of the Ting River they traveled to Guangdong and other parts of China, as well as overseas.

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13.

Ganzhou was the place that the Hakka Taiwanese have settled before migrating to Western Fujian and Eastern Guangdong.

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14.

Hakka Taiwanese offered financial assistance to those willing to resettle in Sichuan: eight ounces of silver per man and four ounces per woman or child.

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15.

Hakka Taiwanese people are mainly concentrated in Liuyang and Liling villages.

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16.

Hakka Taiwanese-speaking communities are thought to have arrived in the Hong Kong area after the rescinding of the coastal evacuation order in 1688, such as the Hakka Taiwanese speaking Lee clan lineage of Wo Hang, one of whose ancestors is recorded as arriving in the area in 1688.

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17.

The rural Hakka Taiwanese population began to decline as people moved abroad, and away to work in the urban areas.

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18.

The early Hakka Taiwanese immigrants were the island's first agriculturalists and formed the nucleus of the Chinese population, numbering tens of thousands at the time.

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19.

Hakka Taiwanese used their matchlock muskets to resist the Japanese invasion of Taiwan and Hakka Taiwanese Han people and Aboriginals conducted an insurgency against Japanese rule.

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20.

The Hakka Taiwanese rose up against the Japanese in the Beipu uprising.

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21.

In recent decades, many Hakka Taiwanese have moved to the largest metropolitan areas, including Taipei and Taichung.

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22.

Hakka Taiwanese-related affairs in Taiwan are regulated by the Hakka Taiwanese Affairs Council.

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23.

Hakka Taiwanese have emigrated to many countries worldwide, notably Americas, Guyana, Suriname, Britain, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Cambodia and Burma.

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24.

Hakka Taiwanese people emigrated to many countries in Europe, including Britain, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden and Netherlands.

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25.

Hakka Taiwanese tried to bring the two parties together and persuaded them to dissolve the associations in order to set up a new united one.

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26.

Hakka Taiwanese is the lingua franca among the Chinese in Sabah to such an extent that Chinese of other subgroups who migrate to Sabah from other states in Malaysia and elsewhere usually learn the Hakka Taiwanese dialect, with varying degrees of fluency.

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27.

Hakka Taiwanese immigration began to taper off during World War 2 and declined to a negligible level in the late 1940s.

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28.

In Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Hakka Taiwanese people are sometimes known as Khek, from the Hokkien pronunciation kheh of ? .

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29.

Hakka Taiwanese spoken in Belinyu area in Bangka is considered to be standard.

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30.

Since the independence of East Timor in 2000, some Hakka Taiwanese families had returned and invested in businesses in the newborn nation.

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31.

Hakka Taiwanese arrivals were halted along with other Chinese immigrants during the White Australia Policy era from 1901 to 1973 and resumed thereafter.

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32.

Hakka Taiwanese's following, who were initially Hakka peasants from Guangxi, grew across the southern provinces.

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33.

In Guangdong, China's most prosperous province, the "Hakka Taiwanese clique" has consistently dominated the provincial government.

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34.

Guangdong's Hakka Taiwanese governors include Ye Jianying, Ding Sheng, Ye Xuanping and Huang Huahua.

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