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What is Hakka culture?
Hakka culture refers to the sum of material culture and spiritual culture jointly created by Hakka people, including language, drama, music, dance, crafts, folk customs, architecture, diet and so on. Hakka culture not only inherits the ancient orthodox Han culture, but also integrates the southern indigenous culture, and is influenced by the environment of living in hilly areas for a long time, forming a unique Hakka culture. Hakka people are also called "nationalities on the hills". Hakka culture has the reputation of living fossil of ancient culture in China. Hakka studies is an outstanding school in the world today, and it is the characteristic of Hakka culture, and the basic characteristic of Hakka culture is Confucian culture. Immigrant culture and mountain culture are also important features of Hakka culture. Hakka's ancestor worship, emphasis on education, root-seeking consciousness, pioneering spirit and exotic and colorful folk customs are, to a great extent, the externalization of these three cultural characteristics. Hakka people of different branches have different cultural characteristics.

Hakka people are spread all over China, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan Province and other provinces, and even as far away as Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Thailand and other places, with a wide distribution and far-reaching influence.

Hakka culture research is a multi-disciplinary, long-span and practical research field. How to combine the Revolution of 1911 with the study of Hakka culture is a new topic. Guangdong is the cradle of China's modern revolution. 19 1 1 The March 29th Uprising in Guangzhou started the first shot of the Revolution of 1911. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, He Ziyuan and Qiu, the founders of modern education in China and veterans of the Revolution of 1911, broke through the shackles of stubborn conservative forces and actively established and promoted new schools. It not only cultivated a large number of social elites with progressive ideas and determined innovation, but also gave birth to the Lingnan School of Painting, which "compromised Chinese and Western, integrated ancient and modern", injected vitality into Lingnan culture and accumulated great energy for the Revolution of 1911. Therefore, the horn of the Revolution of 1911 gave birth to Lingnan School of Painting, and the exchange and collision of various cultural thoughts promoted the emergence and development of Lingnan culture, especially Hakka culture.