Hakka Culture Research Articles

The Integration and Inheritance of Hakka Culture in Kindergarten Aesthetic Education Activities

The inheritance of Hakka culture in kindergarten aesthetic education is crucial, as it can promote children’s cognitive and emotional development of local culture. This article studies the integration and inheritance of Hakka culture in kindergarten aesthetic education activities, explores the importance of kindergarten aesthetic education, the current situation of Hakka culture in kindergarten aesthetic education activities and the main problems faced by Hakka culture in aesthetic education activities. It proposes strategies to strengthen the integration and inheritance of Hakka culture in aesthetic education activities, enhance teachers’ Hakka culture education ability, and provide children with richer cultural experiences and educational opportunities.

A Study of Hakka Image Emotion , Hakka Product Attitude and Online Purchase Psychological willingness

Hakka image is composed of pictures and words that are related to Hakka culture, which communicates with people via the Internet 24/7. The interconnection between Hakka culture and industry has developed products that represent Hakka culture employing Hakka image; hence, Hakka products continue to show the symbolic characteristics of Hakka culture. According to the Theory of Reasoned Action and Hakka imagery emotions, this study explores Internet young users’ Hakka product attitude and online purchase intention. The research object is a representative Hakka cultural and creative product in Taiwan. Data were collected from 176 respondents from social networking sites. A Structural Equation Model (SEM) analysis shows that the second-order model is better than the first-order model. The dimension of “Hakka retro” of Hakka image emotion significantly affected the Hakka product attitude; meanwhile, “Hakka retro” significantly affected the online purchase intention. The SEM model explains the variance in Hakka product attitude (62.9%), and online purchase intention (62.5%). Overall, the Hakka industry should keep optimizing the Hakka image of the website, move consumers' emotions through the Hakka images, and enhance the positive attitude toward Hakka products and online purchase intention. The conclusion of this research can be used as a reference for managers and theoretical researchers.

Study on the Translation and Application of Hakka Cultural Symbols in Heyuan Tourist Food Packaging

According to the present situation of tourism food packaging design in Heyuan area, the problems such as lack of creativity, lack of cultural connotation and single function are found out. Color elements, modeling elements and decorative elements from Hakka culture are extracted and translated into tourist food packaging by means of design semiotics, and digital media technology is integrated to focus on functional innovation of food packaging. The design strategy of Hakka cultural translation in Heyuan tourist food packaging is proposed: “Modeling transplantation and theme narrative” highlight regional characteristics. “Visual presentation and emotional resonance” gives spiritual connotation. “Hakka culture and technology integration” highlights cultural inheritance, and applies it to the design of tourism food packaging, which is conducive to the dissemination and development of traditional culture. It helps to shape a good brand image, and further realizes the cultural value and economic value of tourism food packaging.

ASOMROF: A Transmedia Project of Sci-Fi Content Inspied by the Local Ethnic History for Technology Art Works

This communication depicts the evolution and transmedia of science fiction content inspired by the immigration and land reclamation history of early Hakka people who arrived in Taiwan from China in the 17th century for technology art works, including a dancing performance that combines virtual and real dancers in real-time, as well as an augmented reality exhibition. For early determined cooperation, the project was set to be related to Hakka culture. The Hakka are one of two major ethnic groups of Han Chinese immigrants who arrived in Taiwan around the 17th century, after the Hokkien, the other major ethnic group of Han Chinese. The history of Hakka immigration and reclamation, as well as the conflict between Hakka, Hokkien, and indigenous people in Taiwan, were found to be intriguing enough to be adapted into a science fiction scenario, with the consideration of how similar the situation will be in the future when human interplanetary immigrants arrive on a new distant planet, a metaphor for the Hakka people. The story of conflict and cooperation between new immigrants, previous settlers, and original inhabitants possibly echo the collective memory of ethnic groups in eastern Asia. Furthermore, the sci-fi scenarios are expanded and adapted as a novel and manga in text and graphic form based on scientific knowledge, in keeping with the current transmedia trend in the entertainment industry.

The aesthetics of Gannan Hakka architecture in modern housing: A design psychology perspective

The rapid acceleration of societal change has subjected contemporary individuals to prolonged periods of diverse pressures, leading to substantial psychological strain, resulting in anxiety, depression, and compromised mental well-being. Within this context, the home has evolved into a vital refuge for modern individuals, offering both physical and psychological respite. Through experimental intervention, this study examines two distinct residential groups: those adhering to traditional housing and those residing in characteristic folk houses, specifically Gannan Hakka architecture. Analysing the psychological state of contemporary individuals and integrating Gannan Hakka architectural elements into folk house design through a psychologically informed approach, this research aims to enhance residents’ aesthetic experiences and alleviate psychological distress. The study involved 120 volunteers with varying psychological stress levels, categorised into characteristic and traditional folk house groups. Psychological assessments evaluated stress, self-efficacy, and quality of life. Findings reveal significantly improved psychological well-being, self-efficacy, and quality of life among the characteristic residential group, affirming the benefits of Gannan Hakka architecture integration. This research underscores the importance of addressing modern individuals’ environmental needs and proposes the integration of Gannan Hakka cultural elements into residential design to enhance well-being.Contribution: This study demonstrates the application of Hakka culture in contemporary housing profoundly influences residents’ lives, enabling both relaxation and a deeper cultural connection. This integration facilitates a comprehensive understanding of Hakka culture, promoting its preservation. Notably recognised for hospitality and diligence, Hakka culture enhances individuals’ appreciation of tradition, fostering physical and mental rejuvenation. These findings offer valuable insights for practical theology scholars and practitioners exploring the impact of religious aspects on modern residential design from a psychological perspective.

Research on the Architectural Features and Artistic Elements of Traditional Buildings in Different Regions of Jiangxi, China

Traditional buildings are a comprehensive manifestation of history, art, and architectural features, and are also a carrier of folk culture, traditional skills, and regional aesthetic tastes. This paper studies traditional buildings and arts from three regions of Jiangxi, including northern Jiangxi, southern Jiangxi, and central Jiangxi. Traditional buildings in Jiangxi Province flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. As Jiangxi is located in the interior of China and is adjacent to many provinces, the architectural art of traditional buildings is greatly influenced by geographical location. Traditional buildings in northern Jiangxi are influenced by Huizhou architectural culture, while those in southern Jiangxi are influenced by Hakka culture. The patio-style buildings and high-lighting buildings that represent the local characteristics of Jiangxi are found exactly in central Jiangxi. The relatively diverse set of architectural features and artistic elements is due to a variety of intertwined regional cultures. Compared with those of the surrounding provinces, the economic level of Jiangxi is relatively underdeveloped, and the local architecture has accordingly formed a restrained, simple, and practical artistic style.

Protect Hakka Architecture: A Concept of Cultural Inheritance

Hakka culture takes the traditional culture of the Han nationality as its core, and the breeding and formation of Hakka culture conform to the laws of cultural development. It is a complete system that integrates Hakka customs, values, and aesthetic sentiments. However, preserving traditional Hakka buildings confronts challenges due to a lack of protection awareness and negative external impacts. It is urgent to explore strategies and approaches for the protection and sustainable development of the Hakka architecture. We conduct ethnographic research methods in fieldwork, which can provide the researchers with detailed and rich resources to further support the architectural analysis of explicit and implicit attributes in Haka historical architectures. On the basis of the concept of cultural inheritance, it is necessary to explore and research the protection and renewal of current historical buildings from the explicit and implicit aspects. Taking the Hakka architecture in Heyuan as an example, preservation and renewal strategies from the view of cultural inheritance theory are proposed, providing a practical reference for solving the problems that arise during historical building protection. Although external factors may influence cultural inheritance during the inheritance process, we must ensure that with complete cultural attributes and in line with the requirements of the times, we integrate diverse cultural inheritance to promote the effective continuation of cultural inheritance.

Localized Cultural and Creative Design based on Metaphorical Techniques

This study conducts an analysis of classic product case studies utilizing the metaphorical technique. It extracts creative methodologies employed in these cases and explores their application in the design of other products, with a specific focus on incorporating the cultural essence of Hakka culture. The metaphorical technique is recognized as a valuable design tool that plays a pivotal role in product redesign. Given the unique and culturally rich nature of Hakka culture, it holds the potential to significantly influence product design. Thus, this research aims to investigate how the metaphorical technique can be effectively employed to integrate the distinctive features of Hakka culture into product design. By summarizing the research findings and contributions, this study examines the value and potential of the metaphorical technique in product redesign. Ultimately, it provides novel perspectives and directions for future research endeavors in related fields.

Application and Research of Hakka Building Codes in Cultural and Creative Product Design

In the development of the cultural and creative industry, popular cultural and creative attractions are reviewed for integrating local architecture, history, and culture into products to promote local economy and culture. We conducted a field investigation at the Xiaojia ancient house in Jiadong Township, Pingtung County, and found that there was a cultural cognitive gap between local cultural and creative products and consumers, which was a dilemma in promoting the development of the local cultural and creative industry. Through the design thinking of cultural and creative products, the spirit of Hakka culture can be delivered and expanded into local specialty products. In the design of cultural and creative products, we used the KJ method to analyze, summarize, and extract the most representative architectural features as the source of design elements. At the same time, combined with the principles of design semiotics, deep cultural symbols were integrated into the product design of the pen holder with richer local spiritual meaning. The traditional and modern elements of the Xiao family’s ancient house were combined to design a multi-functional cultural and creative pen holder. It brought a unique cultural experience and promoted the local cultural and creative industries and the Hakka culture of Xiaojia Ancient House to develop related culture and tourism. Semiotics and the KJ method in theory and practice were useful in product design and programming to develop local cultural and creative products. In the future, we apply this design method to different cultures and cross-domains to achieve wider research and application.

Research on Bamboo Gift Design Based on Hakka Culture

Based on Hakka culture, the design of comb and mirror gifts is studied in this paper. Through the utilization of knowledge from materials science and design psychology, and by using the method that combines theory with practice, Hakka culture can be understood from various perspectives, and the available Hakka characteristic elements can be excavated and refined. As a result, a set of comb and mirror gifts infused with Hakka culture is designed. By imparting the characteristics of Hakka culture to bamboo combs and mirrors, consumers' impression of Hakka culture can be deepened, and the spread and promotion of Hakka culture can be facilitated to some extent.

Study on Hakka Ancestral Hall and Hakka Culture

Study on Hakka Ancestral Hall and Hakka Culture

A Study of the History of Hakka Mountain Song Education Transmission Based on Inheritance Historicity

Among the folk music of China, the Hakka Mountain Folk Songs of Gannan are a unique system with a long history. Understanding the rich humanistic connotation of Hakka and its place in the spiritual life of the people is of far-reaching significance to the study of Hakka culture, Hakka language and the spiritual sentiment of Hakka people in Ganzhou; and to arouse people’s awareness of the inheritance and protection of this precious cultural heritage which is on the verge of extinction. The distinctive local characteristics and folk features are fully expressed in the Hakka Mountain Folk Songs, and the local language and customs, local customs, artistic conditions， and political and cultural life are reflected in the Hakka Mountain Folk Songs in a very realistic way. In recent years, the academic community has paid more attention to the musical characteristics of the Hakka Mountain Folk Songs in Gannan, and the research has gained certain achievements. This paper will focus on the historical origin of Hakka Mountain Folk Songs in Gannan, the spiritual characteristics of Hakka people, the language of Hakka Mountain Folk Songs, the study of the musical characteristics of mountain songs and contemporary vocal works that successfully borrow from Hakka Mountain Folk Songs in Gannan. In the last part of the article, he writes some opinions about the inheritance and innovation of Gannan Hakka Mountain Folk Songs, which will help the creators to create more and better local music works and do their part to promote the inheritance of Gannan Hakka Mountain Folk Songs.

Analysis of Innovative Design Methods of Contemporary Gannan Furniture from the Perspective of Hakka Culture

Furniture is the carrier of culture. After nearly 40 years of development, Gannan furniture industry has a huge scale. Gannan Hakka furniture decoration elements have been preserved in the historical development. It is not only a witness to the development of Hakka architectural culture, but also a symbol of the vibrant and innovative quality of Hakka. At the same time, Hakka architectural decorative elements with national characteristics and traditional colors provide more aesthetic elements for furniture design. But on the whole, Gannan furniture design has not formed its own cultural style and characteristics. This paper takes the application of Hakka architectural decoration elements in furniture design as the research angle, and applies the parametric technology to the innovation of elements in Hakka architectural decoration to furniture design. The practical verification shows that the model built by the algorithm of this technology makes the accuracy of design entities increase by 22.14% and the security rate increase by 33.69%. It also optimizes the furniture design method while making Hakka cultural elements get modern application.

Exploring the Green Design of Hakka Cultural Creative Textiles for Sustainable Development

This study explored Hakka cultural creative textiles using the green design concept, the cultural creative product design model and Hamilton’s three-component unifying metatheory based on ideology, social structure and technology to analyse the effect of blue dye colour, floral pattern size and pattern type on the preference for natural indigo dyed and stonewashed Tung blossom denim. Two hundred and twenty-nine subjects aged 18–24 years (M = 19.5, SD = 1.25) participated in this study. The results demonstrate that the main effect of blue colouring was significant and that Hanaasagi and Ai-iro were the most preferred colours. The main effect of floral pattern size was significant, and the subjects exhibited the strongest preference for the large size and the weakest preference for the extra-small size. The main effect of pattern type was also significant, and the subjects’ preference for the two-dimensional repetitive pattern was always stronger than that for the one-dimensional repetitive pattern. These results show that green design may be combined with cleaner production, such as using natural indigo as a raw material for sustainable development, to create new luxury fashions of cultural creative textiles for consumption.

Adapting Christianity to Hakka Culture: The Basel Mission’s Activities among Indigenous People in China (1846–1931)

The Hakka are a branch of the Chinese Han people, who immigrated from central China to Kwangtung (Guangdong 广东) Province. They have their own cultural norms in terms of language, lineage, distribution of work roles and status of women. The trans-national Basel Mission was headquartered in the Swiss city of Basel, near the Swiss–German border. The Basel Mission was distinguished among the missions to China by its rural Hakka Christian community. This article sets out to illustrate how the Basel Mission supported and maintained the rural Hakka Christianity community by integrating Christianity with Hakka cultural precepts. Previous Christian historiographical research has generally chosen not to emphasize Hakka cultural beliefs and practices. Examining the activities of the Basel Mission from the perspective of the indigenous Hakka culture, this article aims to enhance our understanding of the cultural precepts of receptors to shape the global enterprise of missionary society.

Extraction and Reuse of Visual Elements of Children's Hat Creative Products Based on Gannan Hakka Culture

Now society has entered a new era. With the rapid development of economy, people's pursuit of a better life is becoming more and more intense. Tourism has increasingly become the leading role in people's lives, the subject of a better life, and the symbol of a national culture. Absorbing the essence of traditional culture in the design process of modern cultural and creative products can enhance the confidence of national culture. Gannan is the birthplace of Hakka people with a long history and rich Hakka culture, including historical culture, folk culture, catering culture, architectural relics, language culture, etc. This paper studies the extraction and reapplication of visual elements of children's hats based on Gannan Hakka culture, involving image processing. Wavelet transform has the ability to characterize the local characteristics of signals in time domain and frequency domain. Wavelet analysis based on wavelet transform can focus on any details of the signal in the time-frequency domain by using a scalable and translatable variable window. It can not only see the full picture of the signal, but also analyze the details of the signal, and retain the instantaneous characteristics of the data. Through research, the research effect of this paper is remarkable and suitable for wide application.

Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Hakka Traditional Villages in Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, China

Hakka traditional villages are an important segment of traditional Chinese villages. Analysis of the process of selection of a Hakka site can deepen our knowledge of Hakka culture. In this study, we selected Hakka traditional villages in Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi provinces as research sites. We extracted basic data for these traditional villages using geographic information system coordinates, identified several potential influencing factors, and analyzed correlations among the factors using the R language. Finally, the degree of influence of each factor on the site selection of Hakka traditional villages in the study area was determined using a geographic probe to confirm the dominant factors. The results showed that Hakka traditional villages in Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi had an overall significant clustered distribution. Distance to water, elevation, and vegetation richness were the dominant factors influencing the location of Hakka villages, while the interaction of multiple factors had a facilitating effect on the location of Hakka village foundations. This study utilized the observed distribution of Hakka villages in different regions and the differences between them resulting from the interaction of influencing factors, combined with data analysis, to provide a theoretical basis for the development and protection of Hakka traditional villages.

Hakka culture brand image design based on the human-computer interaction model.

In order to better disseminate Hakka culture, this thesis focuses on the cultural dissection of Hakka culture in Gannan and the development and reflection of Hakka culture in Gannan. This article aims to design the brand image of Hakka culture through human–computer interaction model. And based on this, this article discusses the brand concept and the elements of cultural and creative products and discusses the connection between Hakka cultural and creative and tourism brands. At the same time, this article conducts an in-depth study on the creative design of the Hakka cultural tourism brand in Gannan. First, this article analyzes the brand connotation and analyzes the connotation and constituent elements of brand cultural and creative products. Second, this article analyzes the relationship between Hakka culture and tourism brand cultural and creative product design. It discusses how to inherit and develop Hakka culture from the perspective of how Hakka culture is integrated into brand cultural and creative products. Third, this article analyzes the design practice of cultural and creative products of the Hakka cultural tourism brand in Gannan. This article first analyzes the visual image design of the cultural and creative products of the Hakka cultural tourism brand in Gannan. Then it analyzes the design of a series of cultural and creative products of the Hakka cultural tourism brand in Gannan. The experimental results show that the popularity of different products is more than 50%, which shows the effectiveness of this design.

Analysis on the Design Method of Furniture Cultural and Creative Products Based on Ganzhou Songcheng Culture

Ganzhou furniture can be embodied as a carrier of culture. After more than 40 years of development, it has formed a huge industry. However, the overall design of Ganzhou furniture has not yet reflected its own cultural characteristics. The Hakka culture in Songcheng, Ganzhou has very distinct characteristics, which can be added to the furniture design, so as to create Ganzhou characteristic furniture cultural and creative products.

The Expression and Research of Folk Culture in Book Binding Design

Nowadays, with the rapid development of China, Folk culture turned to be ignored due the openness and progressive. Folk culture needs to be inherited as well as developed. So, we need to pay more attention to folk culture. Meanwhile, book binding design is inseparable from culture. This dissertation studies how to design books better and how to publicize Gannan Hakka culture which belongs to Folk culture better through books. This article revolves around Gannan Hakka culture under the folk culture, to get in further logically and discover the method of how to design the book which could be able to represent the feature of Gannan Hakka Cultuer hierarchically. Firstly, this dissertation introduces the present situation of book binding design and the importance of folk culture to the design of book binding. Secondly, we can take some examples about the behavior to the book binding design in folk culture from three elements in visual communication design graphic, text and color. And then drawing a conclusion with the design principles and performance techniques in the design of the book binding, besides illustrating the specific performance of Gannan Hakka by diet, customs, clothing, architecture. Finally, I finish the "Gannan Hakka culture," this book is the final research results of my book binding design used in Gannan Hakka culture.