Hakka Chinese People

The Hakka – Famous 'Kicked Out' Chinese People.

I am a pure Hakka Chinese. The Hakka people migrated southwards in China several times because of various undesirable stuff happening – such as foreign invaders coming a-slaughtering.

The locals didn’t like their turf being stepped on, and called these people ‘Hakka’ or ‘outsiders'. The name stuck, and the outsiders started referring to themselves as Hakka.

With a large presence among the Overseas Chinese, the Hakka with their long acquaintance with persecution, exile and forced migration represent an epitome of Chinese hardiness and survival.

Now, the Hainanese are known for their cooking and opening of restaurants and coffee-shops.

The Hokkien are famous for bak kut teh (pork ribs soup) and char kway teow dishes. And also for songs and parodies that somehow aren’t as funny in any other dialect. Case in point: Ah Long Bukit Beruntung.

What about the Hakka, what are they well known for? Apparently, the Hakka are famous trouble-makers! (They even have a set of martial arts, the better to wreak vengeance upon their enemies).

I found out from my dad that Hakkas have produced a lot of great and famous men, including a lot of ‘outsiders’ who were controversial and noisy enough to get themselves kicked even further out! It seems like even after migrating once or more, prominent Hakkas these days still have to ‘migrate’ the way their proto-Hakka ancestors did!

Even the Wikipedia entry’s introduction says it! – The Hakka have had a significant influence on the course of Chinese and overseas Chinese history: in particular, they have been a source of revolutionary and political leaders.

And so, here I present to you some great Hakkas – many of whom were unceremoniously kicked out of their places, yet managed to thrive nonetheless.

Lee Kuan Yew, who had a Hakka great-grandfather, had his resourceless Singapore kicked out of Malaysia just 2 years after joining it to gain independence from the British. Singapore today has overtaken Malaysia, with a currency more than 3 times as strong. (  SGD to MYR Chart, Singapore Dollar to Malaysian Ringgit, 1 SGD = 3.15471 MYR, May 8, 2022)

Thaksin Shinawatra (there’s a surprise!), also with a Hakka great-grandfather, was ousted in a bloodless military coup while he was overseas. After which he went to London and bought the Manchester City Football Club.

Sun Yat-sen (likely a Hakka), the Father of Modern China who helped overthrow the Qing dynasty, and co-founded the Kuomintang was the first provisional President of the Republic of China, but was later repeatedly rebelled against and was repeatedly exiled.

Deng Xiaoping, a leader of Communist China, who brought the nation out of the vagaries of the Cultural Revolution into prosperity, but was also the one who cracked down on the infamous Tiananmen Square protests. Hakkas were also among otehr top posts in the echelons of Communist power.

Yap Ah Loy, Kapitan Cina whose leadership through unrest and violent clashes and later development of Kuala Lumpur helped it become the capital city of Malaya.

And of course, that most looked-up to Hakka, Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Hong Xiuquan took control of large areas of Central and Southern China and set up a Christian-based theocracy – the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace. The exams for officials were even based on Bible knowledge!

Ironically, his Qing opponents got help from the ostensibly Christian French and British to defeat the Heavenly Kingdom and restore the status quo (namely Confucianism, which 100 years later would replaced by atheistic Communism).

Then again, Hong Xiuquan had quite the unique doctrines… Such as that Jesus was not divine but merely God’s first son, and Hong Xiuquan was God’s second son and thus Jesus’ literal younger brother! But apart from that, the Heavenly Kingdom strove for some pretty admirable reformations – if badly carried out and brutally enforced (and I’m not saying that just because I’m a Hakka).

In fact, what with the classlessness and socialization, the later Communists would definitely have approved of the Heavenly Kingdom – just replacing Hong with Mao, and God with man.

Throw in the Hai San of the Larut Wars, and it looks like Hakkas pretty much stir up trouble wherever they go! Hey, I’m blogging controversial aren’t I? Need any more proof of Hakka meddlesomeness and mischief making? :p

Anyway, Hakka leader Chung Keng Quee later was a signatory of the Pangkor Treaty that ended the fighting (and gave the British a foot/strangle hold in Perak). And from that treaty, the town of Larut was renamed – Hakka drum roll please – Taiping !

 HAKKA PRIDE!

PS. If you read Hakka – I mean, Chinese, you can check out  www.hakkaonline.com

客家人——著名的“被赶出去”的中国人。

 我是纯客家华人。 客家人在中国多次南迁，因为各种不良事件的发生——比如外来侵略者的杀戮。

 当地人不喜欢他们的地盘被踩，称这些人为“客家人”或“外人”。 这个名字被保留了下来，外人开始称自己为客家人。

客家人在海外华人中占有很大的份额，他们长期熟悉迫害、流放和被迫迁移，是中国坚韧和生存的缩影。

 现在，海南人以烹饪和开餐馆和咖啡店而闻名。

福建人以肉骨茶（排骨汤）和炒粿条菜肴而闻名。 也适用于在任何其他方言中都不那么有趣的歌曲和模仿。 恰当的例子：阿龙武吉伯伦东。

 客家人呢，他们以什么着称？ 显然，客家人是著名的麻烦制造者！ （他们甚至有一套武功，更好地报复他们的敌人）。

我从我父亲那里得知，客家人产生了很多伟大而有名的人，其中包括很多充满争议和吵闹的“局外人”，以至于让自己被踢得更远！ 似乎即使在一次或多次迁移之后，这些天的杰出客家人仍然必须像他们的原始客家祖先那样“迁移”！

 甚至维基百科条目的介绍都这么说！ ——客家人对中国和海外华人历史的进程产生了重大影响：特别是，他们一直是革命和政治领袖的源泉。

所以，我在这里向你们介绍一些伟大的客家人——他们中的许多人被毫不客气地赶出了他们的位置，但仍然成功地茁壮成长。

 有一位客家曾祖父的李光耀，在加入马来西亚以脱离英国独立后仅两年就将他资源匮乏的新加坡赶出马来西亚。 今天的新加坡已经超过了马来西亚，货币的强势超过了 3 倍。 （SGD 到 MYR 图表，新加坡元到马来西亚林吉特，1 SGD = 3.15471 MYR，2022 年 5 月 8 日）

 他信·西那瓦（有一个惊喜！），还有一位客家曾祖父，他在海外时在一场不流血的军事政变中被赶下台。 之后他去了伦敦，买下了曼城足球俱乐部。

 帮助推翻清朝并共同创立国民党的近代中国之父孙中山（可能是客家人）是中华民国第一任临时大总统，但后来屡遭造反，屡遭流放。

邓小平是共产主义中国的领导人，他将国家从文革的变幻莫测中带入繁荣，但也是镇压臭名昭著的天安门广场抗议活动的人。 客家人也是共产主义权力梯队的其他高级职位。

 Yap Ah Loy，Kapitan Cina，其领导层通过动乱和暴力冲突以及吉隆坡后来的发展帮助它成为马来亚的首都。

 当然，最受尊敬的还是客家人，太平天国起义领袖洪秀全。 洪秀全控制了中国中南部大片地区，建立了以基督教为基础的神权政治——太平天国。 官员的考试甚至是基于圣经知识！

 具有讽刺意味的是，他的清朝对手在表面上是基督教的法国和英国的帮助下打败了天国并恢复了现状（即儒教，100 年后将被无神论的共产主义所取代）。

 再说了，洪秀全的教义还挺独特的……比如耶稣不是神，只是神的第一个儿子，洪秀全是神的第二个儿子，是耶稣的弟弟！ 但除此之外，天国还努力进行一些非常令人钦佩的改革——如果执行不力和残酷执行（我并不是因为我是客家人就这么说）。

事实上，没有阶级和社会化，后来的共产党人肯定会认可天国——只是用毛代替洪，用人代替上帝。

 再加上拉鲁特大战的海三，看样子客家人走到哪里都闹得沸沸扬扬！ 嘿，我在写博客是不是很有争议？ 需要更多关于客家爱管闲事和恶作剧的证据吗？ :p

 无论如何，客家领袖钟庆贵后来签署了结束战斗的邦咯条约（并让英国人在霹雳州站稳脚跟）。 从那条条约开始，拉鲁特镇更名为——客家鼓——太平！

 客家骄傲！

HAKKA PRIDE!

PS。 如果您阅读客家语——我的意思是中文，您可以查看 www.hakkaonline.com