歷史上，詔安客家人因長期處在福佬人聚落之中，也使得他們的文化特性隱藏起來，沒有受到注意。本論文的研究對象—詔安客，他們的主要是聚居在崙背、二崙一帶，事實上，他們不但在台灣生活好幾百年仍然會使用其方言、甚至還能使用福佬話與詔安客家話兩種語言，就連他們的宗教信仰、祖先崇拜也是相當獨特的文化。因此本研究希望透過詔安客的聚落開發、社會語言使用、宗教信仰以及祖先崇拜等面向，利用文化圈的概念，來突顯雲林詔安客的獨特文化特色。 雲林詔安客如何保有其客家話的使用、以及許多傳統的風俗習慣，筆者認為是因為聚落相當集中的關係，這是他們仍保存其獨特的文化的一大關鍵。本論文的主要目的，是要重新尋找雲林詔安客的文化特色，並且將詔安客視為一個獨立的群體來論述。希望藉此研究所使用的文化圈的概念，可以幫助未來其他研究者在研究詔安客文化的參考資料。台灣的地方文化正不斷的在改變，未來詔安客文化會如何改變將是相當值得關注的焦點，也是很好的研究議題值得繼續探討。 The Chao-An Hakka people have lived among the Hokkian people for a long time in history. Therefore, their cultural characteristics are hard to be noticed. The target group to study in this thesis is the Chao-An Hakka people who live in the Lun-Bei and Er-Lun areas in Yun-Lin County, Taiwan. They not only could speak their own Chao-An Hakka language but they could also speak Hokkian language for the past several hundred years in Taiwan. Moreover, they have kept their very own religion and ways of ancestor worship. The purpose of this paper is to discover their distinctive cultural characteristics through the concept of the cultural circle and through the understanding of their village development, sociolinguistics, religious practices, and ancestor worship. I believe the culture of Chao-An Hakka people in Yun-Lin can be successfully preserved mainly because they live close together. I hope the concept of the cultural circle used in this paper will be useful to other people for further research. Taiwan’s many local cultures keep changing. I suggest we should pay close attention to the future development of the Chao-An Hakka’s culture in Yun-Lin.
