Chapter Ninety-Five: The Identity of the Hakka People

The news of Chen Tianliao's heavy reward for scientific research personnel spread quickly, and the next day's "Pengcheng Daily" reported on the incident, and at the same time, it was accompanied by an editorial entitled "Science and Technology are the Primary Productive Forces", which made Chen Tianliao a little surprised. His deeds in the R&D and production of VCDs in the neighboring city of Xiangshi were also reported at the same time, which surprised Chen Tianliao. The SEZ is worthy of being a SEZ, and the speed with which they discover new things and pursue new things is indeed very ashamed of their mainland counterparts.

After the Pengcheng media reported on it, Xinhua Daily, the most authoritative newspaper in China, also reprinted the report and distributed its own editorial, which made Chen Tianliao both happy and frightened. He also soon received a call from Song Xianfeng. As a government official, Song Xianfeng certainly knew how important it was to be on Xinhua Daily, and how important it was to distribute editorials. Of course, he had to call to congratulate him. Of course, there was also a knock on Chen Tianliao to make him not proud.

"It's okay, Dad, I know how to do it. Our country only likes people who do practical things, and we don't like guys who have nothing to do and are in the limelight. I do things in a way. I will honestly do a good job and contribute to the cause of socialism. Chen Tianliao replied to his father-in-law and stepfather.

Song Xianfeng was obviously satisfied with Chen Tianliao's answer. He felt that Chen Tianliao was smarter than himself and more suitable for politics than himself, so he hung up the phone after a few words of encouragement.

At this time, some TV stations also contacted Chen Tianliao for an interview, but Chen Tianliao rejected them one by one. The news department of Central TV also called to come to Pengcheng to interview him and his laboratory, Chen Tianliao thought about it and agreed.

While waiting for the central TV station, Tian Zhengliang gave him an invitation that made Chen Tianliao interested. This invitation is the invitation to the opening of the Hakka Culture Museum in Pengcheng City. For a long time, Chen Tianliao ignored his Hakka identity. On the one hand, he was not a Hakka in his previous life, and on the other hand, he lived in the northern region far away from the base camp of the Hakka people, so he didn't care much about this identity. The time he used Hakka the most was to speak Hakka with Li Ximei to scold his sister-in-law Chen Mei, and said Chen Mei, who couldn't speak Hakka, until he couldn't cover his face and run away from home.

In fact, the Hakka people are an interesting ethnic group of the Chinese people. Other tribes of the Chinese are generally named after regions, such as the Chu, Cantonese, and Wu people...... Only the Hakka people are not. Because the original region where the Hakka people lived, it belonged to the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Because the Hakka people originally lived in the mountains, they are not well-known in Chinese history. There have been some celebrities from time to time, but no one pays attention to their Hakka status.

The name of the Hakka people is in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. In the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty, as the population grew, various ethnic groups fought for more land. This kind of fighting has been spreading in the South China region for a long time. This large-scale armed struggle spread for hundreds of years, and became more violent at the end of the Qing Dynasty, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties in the Lingdong region.

Among them, the side of the "guest" of the Tuke big weapon fight is mainly the Hakka people in the four provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Guangxi. Their dialect is different from the people around them, and the people are fierce and have strong fighting power. They migrated in clans, especially in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, when the sea ban ended, and the Qing government recruited a large number of Hakka immigrants to reclaim wasteland in order to develop the coastal land. In order to survive locally, they have strengthened their ability to cohesive. In the early days, there was a lot of land, and everyone was safe. But when the land was tense at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the fighting began. Because this group of people does not have their own ethnic names, they are mostly called "Hakka" in the documents as "guests" who are divided into natives and guests, so they are called "Hakka people". Because the Tu people have economic, political and cultural advantages, the Hakka people have suffered heavy casualties and have been stigmatized as a backward people. This stimulated the Hakka people's study of their own culture.

In his previous life, Chen Tianliao knew some friends from the Hakka area of Fujian and Jiangxi, and they all said that they didn't know that they were Hakka when they were children, and they didn't know that they were Hakka until they were in college.

The rise of the Hakka people is a modern thing. The first time it shocked the world was the famous Taiping Rebellion. Among the five kings of Yong'an, the core of this movement, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, and Shi Dakai are all Hakka, while Xiao Chaogui may be a strong man who can speak Hakka. Most of the people who participated in the uprising were Hakka people who were suppressed by the local natives in the Tukka fight. They are extremely combative. Many Hakka traits were also brought to the uprising. For example, the construction of women's battalions. Influenced by life in the mountains, Hakka women generally do not bind their feet and also participate in labor, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a women's camp system and opposes foot binding. When they captured Nanjing, it attracted the attention of China and foreign countries, and foreigners began to study this branch of the Chinese people.

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Hakka people continued to call for wind and rain on the political stage of China. For example, Sun Yat-sen (a Cantonese speaker, that is, a Cantonese-speaking crowd), Liao Zhongkai and others. After the Xinhai Revolution, the warlords Chen Jiongming, Zhang Fakui, and Chen Jitang who ruled Lingdong Province were almost all Hakka. Among the generals of the two parties in the civil war, the powerful generals such as Xue Yue, Luo Zhuoying, Wu Qiwei, Fan Yunjie, and Huang Botao on the national side, as well as the first and last two marshals of the founding marshals of the Republic, Ye Ting, Yang Chengwu and other famous generals are all Hakka. During the First Civil Revolutionary War, the Central Soviet Region was established in the Hakka region of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, and the red capital Ruijin and Mof County Xingguo were both Hakka counties. The most courageous army in modern China is actually not the most famous Hunan army, but the Hakka army, which is not well-known.

It is worth mentioning that the Hakka people also performed heroically in foreign wars.

After the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government ceded the island, and the Hakka governor of the island, Tang Jingsong, the local village sage Xianqiu Fengjia, and the Hakka anti-French general Liu Yongfu immediately set out to resist the Japanese and protect themselves. With Tang Jingsong as the leader, Qiu Fengjia led the rebel army, and Liu Yongfu was in charge of military command. Among the rebels, the strongest combat effectiveness was the rebel army led by Xu Xiang, Wu Tangxing and Jiang Shaozu, three Hakkas, and all three of them died for the country. In his previous life, in 2008, Baodao once filmed a "1895", which showed the heroic anti-Japanese scene of the three heroes of the Hakka Righteous Army, and won the Golden Bell Award of Baodao. It's just that the whole play is basically a dialogue between Hakka and Wa, and it is not widely spread.

In the first general battle of the Anti-Japanese War, the Battle of Songhu, Huang Meixing, the first senior general of the Chinese State who died, was a native of PY County, Jiaying Prefecture, the Hakka Cultural Center, and Yao Ziqing, the battalion commander of the same county, led more than 500 people in the battalion to defend Baoshan County for seven days and seven nights, all of whom were martyred, and were posthumously awarded the title of Major General of the Army. When the 100,000 troops moved their positions, Xie Jinyuan, the deputy head of the neighboring county of JL County, led 400 soldiers to block the Japanese army in the famous Sixing warehouse, claiming to be 800 people. As for generals such as Xue Yue and Wu Qiwei, there is no need to say more.

Even as a very small group like the Hakka people in Xichuan, there are still some talents, the head of the marshal of the Republic of Wu, and the famous scholar and writer Guo Moruo. Chen Tianliao's family is also from a Hakka dialect island in Xichuan, and he is also proud of the Hakka group, but the Hakka people in Xichuan itself are extremely minority, and there are only a few dialect islands, plus he has been in the capital for a long time, so he is a little indifferent to his identity. However, the Hakka people are indeed a very large group in the political and business circles, such as the political arena in Lingdong and overseas business circles. This identity may be beneficial to his future development.

In his previous life, Chen Tianliao had contact with many Hakka businessmen and had a certain understanding of this group. There have always been many famous Hakka businessmen, such as Hu Wenhu, who invented the golden oil, Zhang Bishi, who founded Changyu wine, and Zeng Xianzi, the king of ties, etc., but Chen Tianliao admires one person the most - Tian Jiabing. When it comes to donating to education in the mainland, the most famous are Run Run Shaw and Tin Ka Ping. Many people know more or less about Shaw, and they are also very clear about his net worth. And Tian Jiabing, the vast majority of people have really only heard of this name. But the buildings named after Tian Jiaping in primary and secondary schools and universities all over the country have made many people remember this old man. This is a person who really does charity, donating most of his wealth to build schools, hospitals and other institutions, while living a simple life himself. He even sold the house he had lived in for 37 years to donate to charity. Chen Tianliao knew that he could not do it to this extent, so he admired this old man more and more, and was willing to use him as his role model. In this time and space, this venerable old man is still donating money to support education. Chen Tianliao saw Tianjiabing Primary School in Pengcheng.

In addition, the Hakka people are also quite influential in the political arena of some overseas countries. On the islands of Southeast Asia, the Hakka people have established a number of regimes, but they have all been extinguished by Western colonizers. The Hakka people have also opened up a number of cities, including Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. In the Southeast Asian political arena in the previous life, there were also many Hakka people who served as heads of government, such as Li Jiapo's Li father and son, Thailand's Thaksin brothers and sisters, and so on. And the founding president of Guyana in South America was simply a Hakka named Arthur Chung.

Pengcheng was originally a small county with a majority of Hakka people, but after the reform and opening up, it became an immigrant city, although there were also many Hakka people in eastern Guangdong, but Hakka dialect had no advantage at all. The descendants of their indigenous Hakka people have gradually been assimilated into the Cantonese-speaking area, so there is an interesting family phenomenon in which the ancestors speak Hakka, the middle-aged Hakka and ordinary words are mixed, and the younger generation speaks Cantonese. In any case, those traditional Hakka people still attach great importance to their roots, hence the construction of this cultural museum.

After briefly returning to the history of the customer's family, Chen Tianliao decided to attend the activities of this Hakka culture museum, on the one hand, to do a root-finding activity for his own bloodline in this life, and on the other hand, to get to know some people. Chen Tianliao knows that many of the enterprises in Xiangjiang and Baodao are Hakka enterprises, but he is still a northerner after all, and he does not know many things in the south, so perhaps this event will allow him to meet different people and have unexpected gains.