Liang Zhengji (2nd from right), president of the American Taiwan Hakka Federation, and volunteers organized the event together. (Photo by Weng Yu, reporter of Overseas Chinese)
[Journey Chinese Report on Los Angeles on August 6] On the 6th, the three consecutive days of global Hakka Culture conference closed in the Industrial City of East Los Angeles. Nearly 600 Taiwanese Hakka people from all over the world attended the conference.
On Sunday morning, the Global Hakka Cultural Conference and Taiwan Hakka Kiss Conference ended at the Pacific Palms Resort in the Industrial City. Liang Zhengji, president of the American Taiwan Hakka Federation, said that in the past three days, in addition to Taiwan's "Chief of Overseas Chinese Affairs" Wu Xinxing, Taiwan's representative to the United States Gao Shuotai, California Finance Minister Jiang Junhui , Federal House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, etc., there were also nearly 600 Taiwanese Hakka villagers from all over the world who came to the party, including the Americas, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, etc., of which more than 200 were Hakka villagers in California. What impressed the volunteers most during the
event was that the younger generation gave speeches in Hakka dialect at the conference. Volunteers believe that Hakka culture needs to be passed on and language cannot be left out, and the performance of the younger generation is very impressive.
According to the constitution of the conference, the three-day activities include a Taiwan Hakka Affairs Seminar, a Hakka Culture and Affairs Promotion Report Conference, etc. There are also many articles in the conference venue journal mentioning language inheritance. Among them, "The National Language (Equality) Development Law and the Imagination of the Landscape of Hit Language " mentioned that multiple departments and teaching and research institutions and civil groups in Taiwan are in full swing to hold public hearings and symposiums on the draft "National Language Development (Equality) Law", so the American Taiwan Hakka Federation is very concerned about this.
(Editor: Zhang Xiao)