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Luoyang creates a return to Hakka culture

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Luoyang creates a return to Hakka culture
Luoyang creates a return to Hakka culture

Luoyang attaches great importance to the promotion and development of Hakka culture, and has successfully held the "Hakka Culture Forum" for three consecutive years. Relying on Dagu Pass, the Construction of the Hakka Source Memorial Hall in Luoyang, the planning of the Hakka town, making it a landmark of the roots of the Yellow River culture and a sacred place for hakka people around the world to seek their roots and worship their ancestors.

The Hakka are an important ethnic group of Han Chinese all over the world and with a special humanities, and in places where there are many Hakka people, the belief of Guan Gong prevails. The Hakka people's worship of Emperor Guan was mainly manifested in two aspects: on the one hand, the relevant emperor temples were widely built everywhere; on the other hand, the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar was set as the birthday of Emperor Guansheng. Contemporary Hakka beliefs and worship of Guan Gong stem from the fact that their ancestors brought the Guan Gong faith to these places when they migrated, and continue to this day from generation to generation.

Luoyang creates a return to Hakka culture
Luoyang creates a return to Hakka culture
Luoyang creates a return to Hakka culture

  Luoyang Guanlin is the place where Guan Yu's first level is buried; Guan Gongxin customs are also one of the national intangible cultural heritage projects in Luoyang. Every year, a large number of Hakka people come to Guan Lin to worship Guan Gong. According to statistics, as many as 50,000 Minnan people come to Guanlin to worship every year. In addition to the Hakka people worshiping Guan Gong in the local area, the Guanlin International Pilgrimage Ceremony held from September to October every year is an important festival for their pilgrimage, and Guanlin has become the ancestral temple of the Hakka people. It is necessary to make full use of the Guanlin International Pilgrimage Ceremony to create a world-class Hakka festival and attract more Chinese people at home and abroad to come to Luo to find their roots. At the same time, it is also necessary to fully excavate the historical materials of more than 140 Chinese character surnames that were changed to the surnames of other tribes in Luo with the addition of luo to more than 140 Chinese character surnames with close sounds or meanings, and identify more than 140 surname roots; according to the genealogical tree stele of the surname, establish inscriptions and exhibition halls for these surnames, and form more than 140 pilgrimage shrines.

More than 140 surnames can be assigned to their family size for 12 months of worship per year. The main contents of the activities are: academic research on surname culture, family name genealogy research, ancestral worship, etc., in order to attract Chinese people from all over the world to luoyang to find their roots and ask their ancestors. The formation of an atmosphere of searching for roots in the moon and the moon and worshiping every day has promoted Luoyang from a world cultural city to an international cultural exchange center city.

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