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Flying Over the Hakka Village

(English/Mandarin subtitles can be enabled in player subtitle settings.) Fan Wen-fang is a Hakka poet. He has been an enthusiastic participant in Hakka mother tongue creation, teaching, and writing in Hakka for many years, and often writes academic papers on Hakka language, history, and songs in H

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Flying Over the Hakka Village: Burst Dragon
The Miaoli Burst Dragon in the annual Lantern Festival is a charismatic feature of Hakka folklore. Teng Yeh, a native of Tongluo, Miaoli, grew up watching his grandfather's dragon
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Flying Over the Hakka Village: Mountain People
It is always daunting to find tickets for the Old Mountain Line steam locomotive when it runs in Sanyi, Miaoli. It is little known that many of Taiwan's Railway Administration empl
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Flying Over the Hakka Village: Every Day is Tung Blossom Season
"For a beekeeper, following the flower season is a way of life, but being grateful for mother nature's nourishing gifts is an attitude to life." The Tung Blossom Tree brought to Li
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Flying Over the Hakka Village: One-in-a-Million Miracle
Crops initially infested by insects unexpectedly turned into a wonderful flavorsome delight. The Hakka spirit of cherishing things goes oceans wide with the fragrance of Oriental B
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Flying Over the Hakka Village: Nobody Less
Being all on the same boat, working together, we can only be more! The shadow of the boat gliding across the surface of the pond reflects the intimate feelings Hakka people share a
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Flying Over the Hakka Village: Family of I-ming Descendants
In Taiwan, there are many areas where Hakka and indigenous people live side-by-side with many inter-ethnic marriages, given the close geographical proximity. With a shared love for
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Flying Over the Hakka Village: The Lord is Wild
Chen Sheng-Jun, chief of Zhutian Village in Fuli Township, recounts the history of how the village came to worship the I-ming God back in the day and established a ritual for the p
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Flying Over the Hakka Village: The Unexpected Master
Traditional breakfast shops offering soy milk, fried dough sticks, and pastries are typical across Taiwan. But do you know that most of the shop owners in Taipei actually have a Ha