New Taipei City has been successful in promoting Hakka for the third consecutive year and has been awarded the top prize in the “Non-Hakka area” by the Hakka Committee

New Taipei City has been successful in promoting Hakka for the third consecutive year and has been awarded the top prize in the “Non-Hakka area” by the Hakka Committee – Mirror Media

[Hong Junjie/Comprehensive Report]New Taipei City has been successful in promoting Hakka for three consecutive years and has been awarded the title of “Area with Non-Hakka” by the Hakka Committee. New Taipei City, a non-regional area where Hakka is the common language, has been awarded the “Best Class Award” for outstanding local governments where Hakka is the common language promoted by the Hakka Committee for three consecutive years in 2021, 2022 and 2023, thanks to the efforts of the Hakka Bureau to actively promote Hakka activities. “affim.

The New Taipei City Government stated that it won the 2023 Hakka as the common language performance evaluation and is the winning unit of “non-Hakka as the common language area”. After the county and city were upgraded in 2010, the Hakka Affairs Bureau was established to actively connect Hakka people in various districts. It is a group that runs classes and workshops, and also invests in the cultivation of Hakka language and the promotion of art and cultural performances from kindergartens to colleges and universities. So far, it has served 670,000 Hakka relatives in the city.

The New Taipei Hakka Bureau stated that it promotes Hakka through language education, arts and cultural activities, and Hakka heritage teachers connect community actions to serve local libraries with deep roots in Hakka, drive local humanities trends, and combine it with today’s new media communication We used our strength to shoot short videos during the Tung Blossom Festival and Hakka festivals, put them on social media to promote and market the Hakka image, and broke through environmental restrictions to promote Hakka culture. Our achievements have been recognized for three consecutive years.

The New Taipei Three Gorges Tung Blossom Tour combines indigo dyeing DIY to practice environmental protection art in the New Taipei City Hakka Culture Park, which is an environmental education field.Provided by New Taipei City Hakka Bureau

The Hakka Bureau pointed out that New Taipei City takes “Urban Hakka” as its core and is obviously different from other Hakka villages in terms of strategies, including promoting cultural transmission, festival exhibitions, local creation of arts, and Hakka cross-arts. Currently, 6 “Harbin Guest Houses” in Zhonghe, Tamsui, Xindian, Xinzhuang, Banqiao and Wugu have been completed. The seventh one will be set up in Luzhou this year. The goal is to increase the number to 10 in 2026. The construction of the museum will allow the people of New Taipei City to “encounter Hakka just around the corner.” From point to line, and then from line to surface, the city of Hakka will be expanded to a global scale.

The Hakka Bureau said that the New Taipei City Government established the “Hakka Youth Think Tank Group” to use the influence of the Hakka Youth Think Tank Group to call on young people to participate in Hakka activities, learn to serve as hosts, reviewers, curators, create and record Hakka food programs to show rich Born separately. In addition, schools will actively implement and promote the inheritance of Hakka, so that children can speak Hakka from primary school to create a friendly and circular Hakka living environment.

The New Taipei City Government added that the “Wuliao Hakka Village Creation Plan” will be implemented in the future. Wuliao in Sanxia District has 60% of the Hakka population and is an important Hakka base. The first Hakka Village Creation Base is in Wuliao. Through public-private collaboration, This method connects Wuliao Hakka Village, community colleges and local cultural centers to establish partnerships to expand and promote Hakka seeds in New Taipei City and continue to inherit Hakka culture.

In addition, in line with the SDGs sustainability goals, the “Hakka Cultural Park” is promoted to feature local tea, dyeing, Hakka, ecology and parent-child interaction. This is an important Hakka cultural heritage base in New Taipei. It has also passed environmental education certification and become a new hub for New Taipei. It is the first environmental education site with the goal of inheriting Hakka culture.