| dc.description.abstract | ＂ A Chinese-English Dictionary Hakka-Dialect ＂ is a first-hand material that records the vocabulary and proverbs of Hakka people in Guangdong Province, China more than 100 years ago. Later, M.C.Mackenzie was asked by the Presbyterian Church of England′s foreign mission group to revise, correct, and add many proverbs and vocabulary, and the typesetting method was revised again. It was published in Shanghai, China in 1926 (15 years of the Republic of China). Therefore, this book is an epoch-making work by Presbyterian missionaries who spanned the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and took decades to accomplish. The author first selected the vocabulary and proverbs related to religious beliefs in the 1926 edition, and classified them into three categories: folk beliefs, Christianity, and Buddhism. In the preliminary review of the dissertation project, thanks to the guidance of the reviewers, the vocabulary and proverbs of the 1905 edition were added, which enriched the vocabulary of the Hakka-English Dictionary. Although the vocabulary of religious beliefs only accounts for a part of the Hakka-English Dictionary, the two editions add up to a huge amount of religious vocabulary, and it only took the author nearly three months to collect them. In addition to the original three major religious beliefs, there are also other religions such as Islam and Zoroastrianism, but due to the layout, they cannot be used one by one. In particular, the Hakka folk beliefs are so complex and extensive that it is difficult to simply complete them in a few words. It can be found from this thesis that the Hakka people live in religious beliefs and account for a large part of their lives. Because the Hakka Dictionary was completed in the original hometown of Guangdong in mainland China, the focus of this paper is to explore the religious beliefs and vocabulary of Hakka people in mainland China, although they are somewhat different from those of Hakka people in Taiwan. However, the attitudes towards the core religious beliefs of the Hakka people on both sides of the strait are almost the same, especially the unswerving beliefs of ancestors and land masters. | en_US |