Enculturation In Lunar New Year

For Hakka, Lunar New Year is actually ended by the twentieth day of the month, and many of the Hakka community especially descendants of Hakka do not know it because generally Lunar New Year is ended by the fifth day of the month which is a day called Lantern Festival (yuán xiāo jié). For Hakka people, the twentieth day of the month of Lunar New Year is a day called 天穿节 (tiān chuān jié), one of the important festival for Hakka ethnic. [Malaysian Chinese and Culture Investigative Group, 2015.] Tian Chuan Jie in China and Taiwan actually are Hakka grand festival. Taiwan also had put it as the global Hakka Day. [Liang, 2013.]
This festival origin an ancient China legend which is about Nüwa mends sky. Nuwa is a goddess who created the human. One …show more content…
This characteristic told me that we are not born for culture but culture learned from surrounding. The process of how we obtain the culture knowledge is called enculturation. Enculturation indicates the learning with one’s culture environment. Enculturation always happens through interaction, observation, and simulation, all talked about how we experienced. Right here, I learned the Hakka culture from the perspective of festival through folktales, legends and myths, and also through mass media. [Samovar, Porter and McDaniel, …show more content…
In Malaysia, I found that the first large celebration for Tian Chuan Jie only started in year 2013 although this traditional festival had a long time ago. The main reason I think is this festival not popular in Malaysian Chinese, especially Hakka themselves. I think there is only minority group of people know about Tian Chuan Jie, may be in the small Hakka village or small Hakka community. I believe that many Hakka do not really know about the festival Tian Chuan Jie. As personally, I was born in Hakka family which my father is Hakka, but I totally do not know there exists this festival and even my father also do not know about